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May 10, 2021 | Michael Doran, Tony Badran

The Realignment

On Iran, Biden is finishing what Obama started. And his top advisers are all on board.

January 23, 2021 | Cleo Paskal |

The world doesn’t realize it’s already at war with China

India is a prime target for PRC’s political warfare. The PRC’s full political warfare force will be directed at weakening India, from funding NGOs in the US to (possibly) funding mobs to attack a Taiwanese manufacturing plant in Bengaluru.

November 3, 2020 | Bradley Bowman, Maj. Shane “Axl” Praiswater

Great Power Competition Comes Home to America

Our leaders’ efforts to heal divisions among our fellow citizens are key to national defense.

October 7, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

McMaster and commander in chief

The former national security advisor on the urgent need for “strategic competence”

October 2, 2020 | Clifford D. May, LTG (Ret.) H.R. McMaster

H.R. McMaster and the Fight to Defend the Free World

December 12, 2019 | Saeed Ghasseminejad |

Trump’s Iran strategy is working. Here’s why

President Trump’s “maximum pressure” strategy against Iran is working, despite warnings of a backlash against the U.S. for the economic sanctions he has imposed on the Islamic Republic. As protests...

December 11, 2019 | Aykan Erdemir, Varsha Koduvayur

Brothers in Arms

The Consolidation of the Turkey-Qatar Axis

June 13, 2018 | Clifford D. May

Ronald Reagan’s freedom agenda

Ronald Reagan was tough on totalitarians. On March 8, 1983 -- and to the chagrin of many of his advisors – he disparaged the Soviet Union as an...

April 4, 2018 | Clifford D. May

Give anti-globalism a chance

“Globalism” is one of those Humpty Dumpty words that seems to mean whatever those using it “choose it to mean – neither more nor less.”...

January 19, 2018 | David Adesnik

Tillerson Revises U.S. Policy on Syria

In a speech Wednesday at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson articulated the...

August 16, 2017 | Samantha Ravich |

Expelling Digital Demons from U.S. Sensitive Supply Chains

Co-authored by Michael Hsieh. If the U.S. Department of Defense were an economy unto itself, it would be the 20th largest in the world. Like any other advanced modern econo...

May 8, 2017 | Michael Ledeen

War on Campus

Don’t look to college “leaders” to defend free speech and shut down the rioters. It doesn’t work that way. Universities almost always collapse in the face of student prote...

December 9, 2016 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

The CIA, Post-Obama

When the new casts out the old, an incoming administration has the opportunity to review its predecessor’s approach to the Central Intelligence Agency. When this is done, the foc...

July 6, 2016 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

GOP foreign policy elites flock to Clinton

Two weeks before he hopes to consolidate his party at the Republican convention in Cleveland, Donald Trump is driving Republican foreign policy elites into the arms of Hillary Clinton, as several...

July 18, 2014 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

The Jihadist Governance Dilemma

Co-authored by Amichai Magen After making astounding territorial gains in its war against the Iraqi government, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria – which has refash...

June 20, 2014 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

Book Review: ‘A Time to Attack’ By Matthew Kroenig

Here's a prediction: Next month in Vienna, Iran and the P5+1 world powers will extend the interim agreement they struck six months ago on Iran's nuclear program. Secretary of State&nbsp...

April 21, 2014 | Michael Ledeen

Out with the Old

Italy has long been Europe’s political laboratory, having invented fascism, incubated eurocommunism, launched the postwar economic miracle, and brought the social democratic nanny state to...

May 13, 2013 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

Radioactive Regime

The list is long of Occidentals who’ve fallen for Persia. This isn’t surprising. Compared with Arab lands save Egypt, Iran has a longer history—Hegel described the Persians as &...

February 20, 2013 | |

Meet Iran’s Ambassador to the UN

In a sold-out event, Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations, Mohammad Khazaee, will be speaking Wednesday evening...

February 11, 2013 |

Saudi Money Shaping US Research

Saudi Arabia’s oil reserves are expected to run dry in fifty years. This prospect has encouraged the Saudis to go shopping for cutting-edge science that can secure the kingdom’s futur...