Why Congress Should Tear Down USAGM’s Firewall
As US adversaries clog global airwaves, US-funded media should advance US interests around the world.
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Russia Is Back to Banning Books
Marcel Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time,” Virginia Woolf’s “Orlando,” and Stephen King’s “It.” These are just a few victims of book purges happening all over Russia. Every...
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The Axis of Aggressors vs. America
During the Cold War, the U.S. had only one major enemy – now we have four
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Securing the Arctic
The U.S. And Its NATO Allies Should Work Together – Not Against Each Other – To Secure the Arctic
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Ukraine’s defense leadership crisis becomes blessing in disguise
“You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing after they’ve tried everything else,” goes an aphorism often apocryphally attributed to Winston Churchill. Much the same can be said for...
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Washington Is Starting to Treat Syria and Iraq as One Policy
In recent weeks, Syria and Iraq have positioned themselves to be key players in a new Middle Eastern order. Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi was in Washington to meet U.S. President Donald Trump...
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Russia’s Next Annexation: South Ossetia
A leadership shuffle in the Russian-occupied portion of Georgia signals that Russia is still invested in redrawing borders in the Caucasus.
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How Putin is exploiting Poland and Ukraine’s oldest wound
As Poland marks its National Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Volhynia Massacre on July 11, history and politics have once again moved to the forefront of Polish-Ukrainian...
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Europe is stepping up to fortify NATO 3.0 — and we must do the same
The consequences of the NATO summit that concluded Wednesday in Ankara will be determined primarily by two questions: Will Europeans step up to honor their defense-spending commitments and carry more of...
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AI technologists, Your Country Is Calling
In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, and the United States realized that it was on the losing end of a technology race. Suddenly, the federal government had to identify, recruit,...
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A Strategy for Winning the Cold War: NSC-68
In April 1950 President Harry Truman produced his seminal national security document, and one of the most consequential strategic documents in American history—NSC-68. This National Security Council...
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Fly Me to the Moon: 4 Ways Artemis Builds on Apollo’s Giant Leap
The last time Americans walked on the lunar surface, the Soviet Union was the enemy and a flag plant was the finish line. Today’s competition bears little resemblance to the Cold War space race that...
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Can US Engagement Rescue the United Nations From Irrelevance?
The next UN leader will take office at a time when the international body is experiencing an unprecedented crisis of purpose.
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The UN’s fatal formula for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
If this issue is seen as the anchor of the region’s broader woes, that is not because the cold data bears it out, but because much of the world has been swayed by a decades-long propaganda effort initiated by the Soviet Union and its Arab allies.
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Russia reopening military schools to expand officer training pipeline
The Russian government announced last week that it will re-establish the Chelyabinsk Higher Tank Command School (ChVTKU) this year. It is one of 16 military schools and academies that Moscow has recently...
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The U.S. Needs Its Mideast Bases
If America won’t finish the job in Iran, leaving the Gulf Arab states would turn a failure into a rout.
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Why Russia Is Trying to Influence Armenia’s Elections
Moscow feels threatened by Armenia’s foreign policy pivot toward Europe and the United States.
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Farewell Fidelismo?
Trump has a chance to liberate the Cuban people – and others
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Iran’s New ‘Nuclear’ Weapon
What happens if the U.S. declines to fight for the Strait of Hormuz.
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Ukraine now has the ‘cards,’ the US must force Putin to make concessions
Ukraine is proving it holds more “cards” than some assumed, thwarting Russia’s battlefield advances while pounding its infrastructure. Vladimir Putin is visibly under stress to end the war. Yet...