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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...

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...

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.

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.

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...

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.

Why Russia Is Trying to Influence Armenia’s Elections

Moscow feels threatened by Armenia’s foreign policy pivot toward Europe and the United States.

Farewell Fidelismo?  

Trump has a chance to liberate the Cuban people – and others

Iran’s New ‘Nuclear’ Weapon

What happens if the U.S. declines to fight for the Strait of Hormuz.

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...

Why the EU Should Sanction Russia’s Patriarch

The Russian Orthodox Church’s sanctification of Russia’s war on Ukraine has met with little retort from Europe.

Post-Assad Syria Is Mending Fences With Russia

The new Syrian leadership has signaled openness to the West and has even demonstrated cooperation with Ukraine — Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in April....

Immigration as a Weapon

Can the NPT Survive Amid Global Disorder? 

The 2026 NPT Review Conference is unfolding against a backdrop of geopolitical upheaval. Absent strong U.S. leadership inside and outside the conference, even modest success appears remote.

An Anniversary That Should Serve as Warning for Russia’s Allies

May 14 occupies a symbolic place in Russia’s military imagination. It marks the anniversary of the creation of the Warsaw Pact in 1955 and, nearly half a century later, the founding of the Collective...

Saudi Arabia’s strange war: Appease Iran, rebuff Israel

Riyadh’s muted response to Iranian aggression reveals a leadership driven more by fear and domestic troubles than coherent regional strategy

Putin’s latest Victory Day parade shows a desperate, hollow regime

For all the Russian president’s cultivated image as a geopolitical chess master, the board is starting to look empty

In Iran, Behavior Changes Only When The Regime Does

An Islamist system built on anti-Americanism and export of terrorism will not abandon the very tools that sustain it.

A Gameplan for American Economic Security:

Supercharging U.S. Statecraft, from an Economic Pentagon to the Near-Global Economy

America Should Rediscover the Soft Power Potential of Its Music

What made jazz – the quintessential American music – dangerous was not the sound, but the idea behind it: improvisation, spontaneity, individual voice.