Arsenal of Democracy
Arming Taiwan, Ukraine, and Israel While Strengthening the U.S. Industrial Base
Time
Don’t bet on the Lebanese Army to restrain Hezbollah
The Assad regime has fallen. Meanwhile, the dreaded Third Lebanon War, during which Israel gave Hezbollah an unprecedented drubbing, is either over or in a ceasefire-induced lull. But the Iranian-backed...
Op-eds
Nip the Bots in the Bud
Proactively Taking Down and Preventing the Creation of Inauthentic Social Media Entities
Memos
Targeting Taiwan
Beijing’s Playbook for Economic and Cyber Warfare
Memos
The Urgent Need for UN Reform
The UN’s response to October 7 makes reform more urgent than ever. UN reform used to be a bipartisan priority — it must now be again.
Memos
Making Sense of Iran’s Three-Pronged Nuclear Fork In The Road
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...
Op-eds
Below the Belt and Road
Corruption and Illicit Dealings in China’s Global Infrastructure
Monographs
Iran-Backed Militias Are In Iraq to Stay
Prime Minister Mahdi is trying to bring the Popular Mobilization Forces under control of the government, but even he probably knows it won’t work.
Op-eds
Erdogan’s War on Media Enters a New Phase
The Turkish government continued its systematic crackdown on independent media today, taking over...
Policy Briefs
Obama’s Failed Command
However hard President Barack Obama tries on Tuesday night to convince the American people that his seven years of wartime leadership have left the country safer and stronger, I’d venture t...
Op-eds
‘Only a Matter of Time’: Russian Pilots are Boarding Helicopters in Syria With AK-74s
Russian pilots manning combat helicopters in Syria can be seen in videos carrying AK-74 assault rifles with them into the cockpit, likely as a precaution in the event they get shot down by rebels...
Op-eds
The Palestinian Authority, Israel and the Peace Process: What’s Next?
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Congressional Testimonies
The Palestinian Authority, Israel and the Peace Process: What’s Next?
Download the full written testimony here (PDF)....
Op-eds
Analysis: Will Ashton’s Time Extension Allow Iran to Build a Nuclear Weapon?
European Union chief diplomat Catherine Ashton on Sunday circulated the ...
Op-eds
Tackling Tehran
With each passing month, Iran appears closer to the nuclear capability threshold everyone expects to be a regional game-changer. With diplomacy unable to yield a desirable comprom...
Op-eds
Charlie Hebdo Attack: No More Excuses
There exists an unspoken rule in the Republic of Letters — that land where novelists, poets, mere ink-stained wretches like myself, think tank scholars who churn out dry policy reports&hell...
Op-eds
Now is the Time for EU Leadership: Deflecting Palestinian Unilateralism at the UN
Commenting on the looming Palestinian unilateral declaration of independence (UDI) last April, German Chancellor, Angela Merkel said, "it is not certain that unilateral recognition will contribut...
Op-eds
The Marines
(thanks to Dewey Clarridge for forwarding this). I’ll have a couple of comments at the bottom, but I thought this was worth sharing, especially at the confluence of two major holidays that...
Op-eds
Angry America? Tea Partiers with Pitchforks?
The USA Today headline the day after the elections: “Voters Send Angry Message.” Time’s two-word explanation for the electoral tsunami: “voter rage.” The Economist&r...
Op-eds
The Worst of Time
Henry Luce would have been mortified. The founder of Time magazine believed Americans had a responsibility to stand up to the enemies of freedom and democracy. He saw the 20th century as "t...