The Right Path to Regime Change in Iran
How America and Israel Can Create the Conditions for the Toppling of the Islamic Republic
Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: Three Years Later
Media Calls
Biden Started a Process to Protect US National Security from China. Trump Should Finish It.
For years, warning lights have been flashing around the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) drive to assert global dominance and reshape international governance in the likeness of its own oppressive regime....
Op-eds
Joe Biden’s Gaza Pier Plan Runs Aground
Getting aid into Gaza is one thing; properly distributing it to those in need is another.
Op-eds
Advance U.S. Interests by Giving Ukraine the Weapons It Needs Now
Memos
U.S. Should Send Cluster Munitions to Ukraine
The top Republicans on the House and Senate foreign affairs and armed services committees sent a letter to President Joe Biden last week urging him to supply Ukraine with cluster munitions, specifically...
Policy Briefs
Iran’s Protesters Want Regime Change
America Should Lend Them a Hand
Op-eds
Lifting Human Rights Sanctions on Iran Would Be a Mistake
Lifting pressure on human rights abusers is not necessary to negotiate effective arms control agreements.
Op-eds
Collusion or Collision?
Turkey-Russia Relations Under Erdogan and Putin
Monographs
Biden and Obama Previously Defended Non-Nuclear Sanctions on Iran
Memos
Congressional Momentum Builds to Establish U.S.-Israel Working Group
The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) released its version of the Fiscal Year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on Tuesday, and it includes a provision to require the establishment of...
Insights
The Rise of Strategic Corruption
How States Weaponize Graft
Op-eds
New U.S. Weapon Strengthens Nuclear Deterrence of Moscow
The Department of Defense announced this week that the U.S. Navy has deployed a low-yield submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) nuclear warhead. This deployment, which aims to deter Russia’s first-use...
Policy Briefs
3 ways America can fix its vulnerability to cruise missiles
September’s drone and cruise missile attack on a major Saudi energy facility highlights the challenges associated with cruise missile defense. Americans might be tempted to dismiss this attack merely...
Op-eds
Trump’s Capitulation to Erdogan Destroys U.S. Credibility
By abandoning America’s Kurdish partners in Syria, the White House has sent a message to allies everywhere that Washington can’t be trusted.
Op-eds
How Trump should handle Iran
Last week, the Trump administration recertified that Iran is complying the nuclear agreement, setting off predictable debate between who those want to exit the deal immediately and those who see...
Op-eds
FDD Welcomes Green Beret Michael Waltz as Non-Resident Senior Fellow
WASHINGTON - Michael Waltz, a lieutenant colonel in the Special Forces (reserve component), has joined the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) as a non-resident senior fellow. Waltz, who...
Press Releases
USA: Victory or retreat?
Three leading American experts assess the Administration's policies in the Middle East. President George W. Bush started his last year in office with a visit to the Middle East. Whe...
Op-eds
Mr. Bush Goes to Africa
Next week, President Bush, accompanied by his wife, Laura, will embark on a five-country tour across the African continent, with stops planned in Benin, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana, and Liberia. Whil...
Op-eds
The Washington Post’s Jihadist Op-Ed Contributor
In the aftermath of Osama bin Laden’s death, the Washington Post ran a four-part series by men and women who had their “lives shattered and transformed by” the terror master. On...