Taiwan, under the guns
The most powerful Communist regime ever threatens its democratic neighbor
The most powerful Communist regime ever threatens its democratic neighbor
Ukraine has launched a major military operation to stab, grab and hold territory inside Russia. The move is historic, marking the first time since World War II that the armed forces of a sovereign country...
On Feb. 21, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin cited corruption as a motivator for his decision to invade Ukraine. While complaining about Ukrainian corruption in his televised speech on...
Assuming the math works (which it doesn’t), why would China sacrifice significant strategic advantage for academic bragging rights?
US officials have deployed an impressive array of metaphors over the past 10 months – from dwindling patience, to a diminishing runway, to a closing window – to describe the Biden administration’s...
The heart of the administration’s new Korea policy will likely focus on implementing the relevant UN Security Council resolutions to achieve North Korea’s verifiable nuclear dismantlement.
Those trying to describe China’s strategy often invoke the two-thousand-five-hundred-year-old Art of War. But some more recent sources might be helpful as well – in particular documents looking at...
Isolationists among both Democrats and Republicans want to withdraw from foreign entanglements. That would make the world much less safe.
China’s efforts to withhold critically important, time-sensitive information about COVID-19 and its recent provocations in Hong Kong and the South China Sea have gripped Washington in recent weeks,...
The Wuhan coronavirus, or SARS-CoV-2 as the World Health Organization has named it and the Chinese would prefer it to be called, may be on the verge of becoming a pandemic. If it continues to spread,...
Excerpt “So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak,” notes the famed Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu. President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw troops...
Soon after taking office, President Trump ordered his national security advisers to provide “a complete strategi...
If you’re still unsure about whether President Trump did the right thing when he launched 59 cruise missiles at Syria’s Shayrat air base last week, consider the alterna...
Nixon went to China. Obama will not be going to Iran. The 1972 visit of President Richard M. Nixon to the People’s Republic included meetings with both Chairman Mao Zedong, the com...
“Creating facts on the ground” means changing reality through actions rather than diplomacy. China’s rulers have gone further: Over the last 18 months they have been creating gr...
When it comes to the jihadi threat, we’re now way beyond willful blindness.
A no-fly zone over Libya may still turn the tide, lead to the ousting of Colonel Gaddafi and facilitate an orderly transition to democracy led by the rebel forces based in Benghazi. At a minimum,...
We’ve tried “radical Islam,” “extremist Islam,” “fundamentalist Islam,” and “sharia Islam.” Inevitably, political correctness gave us “...
In recent days, the Obama administration has fired a salvo of national security initiatives: a new Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), a new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), a new National...
You don't have to be a military strategist on the order of Sun Tzu or Carl von Clausewitz to understand this: It is a bad idea to fund your enemy's war effort. But every time w...