Robert McFarlane

October 16, 2018 | |

Former Government Officials, Policy Experts Support SWIFT Sanctions on Iran

FDD scholars among 30 experts who urge removing Iranian banks from financial service

October 30, 2017 |

Former Government Officials and Experts Support Efforts to Fix Iran Nuclear Deal

Washington, D.C., October 30, 2017 – Following President Donald Trump’s decision to refrain from certifying Iran’s compliance with the Iran nuclear deal under the Congressionall...

January 12, 2015 | Reuel Marc Gerecht The Washington Examiner

CIA Bides its Time

The CIA’s Directorate of Operations doesn’t have an acute memory. But it does have durable institutional sentiments. So here’s a guess: In a few years, few operatives in the cla...

September 5, 2014 | Robert ‘Bud’ McFarlane |

A Plan For Crushing The Islamic State

It is astonishing that nearly six years into the tenure of any administration the commander-in-chief would acknowledge publicly that he has no strategy for addressing an evident, serious thr...

January 7, 2013 | Michael Ledeen Faster, Please! |

The New Iranian Hostage Crisis

Over and over again, we are told that direct U.S.-Iranian negotiations would be a radical departure from past practice, and might decisively improve the “relationship.” Both...

July 23, 2012 | FPI/FDD |

Policy Experts Urge President Obama to Take Immediate Action to Establish Safe Zones in Syria

Washington, D.C.—A bipartisan group of sixty-two foreign policy experts and former U.S. government officials signed an open letter today urging President Obama to adopt a strategy that will...

March 7, 2012 | Clifford D. May Scripps Howard News Service |

How to Stop Putting Gas in the Islamist Tank

Because enriching your enemy may not be a brilliant strategy.

February 17, 2012 | FPI/FDD |

Foreign Policy Experts Urge President Obama to Take Immediate Action in Syria

Foreign Poli...

January 17, 2012 | |

On Iran, Emulate TR

President Obama should replace his talk with decisive action.

September 21, 2011 |

How to Weaken the Power of Foreign Oil

Our country has just gone through a sober national retrospective on the 9/11 attacks. Apart from the heartfelt honoring of those lost — on that day and since — what seemed most striki...

June 15, 2011 | Clifford D. May

Energy Insurance

Bud McFarlane served in the Marines and, years later, as President Reagan’s National Security Advisor. So I listened up when, at a Foundation for Defense of Democracies workshop on energy s...

June 15, 2011 |

Seguro Energético

Bud McFarlane sirvió en los marines y, años después, lo hizo como consejero de Seguridad Nacional del presidente Reagan. Por eso escuche cuidadosamente cuando, en un seminari...

June 14, 2011 | FrontPage

Symposium: Energy Independence and the Terror War

What is the best way for us to achieve energy independence? What is the urgency for us to do so in terms of our conflict with Islamo-Fascism? To discuss this issue with us today, Frontpage Sympos...

February 4, 2011 | Wall Street Journal

Three Qualities That Made Reagan Great

During my nine years in the White House, I had the good fortune to work for three presidents—Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and, for the last four, Ronald Reagan, whom I served as national secu...

April 29, 2010 | Scripps Howard News Service

Submission

What do Comedy Central and Yale University Press have in common? In the Islamist war against free speech, both have been on the front lines. And both have surrendered. Last week, Comedy Central c...

February 24, 2010 | Wall Street Journal

We’ve Been Talking to Iran for 30 Years

The Obama administration's talks with Iran-set to take place tomorrow in Geneva-are accompanied by an almost universally accepted misconception: that previous American administrations refused to ne...

October 13, 2009 | |

Accomplice to Evil: Iran and the War Against the West by FDD Freedom Scholar Michael Ledeen

Press Release October 13, 2009 CONTACT: Judy Mayka 202-621-3948 [email protected]   Accomplice to Evil: Iran and the...

September 30, 2009 | |

We’ve Been Talking to Iran for 30 Years

The Obama administration's talks with Iran-set to take place tomorrow in Geneva-are accompanied by an alm...

September 19, 2008 | Clifford D. May, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

From Energy Crisis To Energy Security

American dependence on oil sends hundreds of billions of dollars overseas every year, forces the U.S. to put its troops in harm's way, and undermines American diplomatic efforts. As the United States...

April 26, 2006 | |

To Bomb, or Not to Bomb

WHEN I WAS RECENTLY in Paris, a French diplomat explained to me why he--and many others in the French foreign ministry--thought the United States would, in the end, bomb Iran's nuclear-weapo...