America’s Military Power Is Already in Orbit
Space is already central to modern warfare.
United States House Committee on Appropriations
U.S. Space Command Is Testing Maneuver Warfare To Prepare for Next Generation of Fighting
It won’t look like a dogfight from Star Wars or Battlestar Galactica, but in a future war, U.S. satellites may need to maneuver to survive. Space Command (SPACECOM) is practicing the right way to do...
Policy Briefs
How Congress Is Pressing the U.S. Space Force To Mature
“Space is no longer a sanctuary. Adversaries, particularly the People’s Republic of China, are rapidly fielding counterspace weapons that threaten critical joint force capabilities,” the House Appropriations...
Insights
5 Reasons Why CISA Is Indispensable to America’s Cyber Defense
Some 70 percent of cyberattacks in 2024 targeted critical infrastructure, yet Congress is weighing cuts to the lead agency responsible for defending it. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security...
Insights
How to Ensure Israel Has the Weapons It Needs
Memos
2023 Annual Report on Implementation
Monographs
2022 Annual Report on Implementation
Monographs
The Time Is Now to Reform the UN Human Rights Apparatus
Memos
Poor Cybersecurity Makes Water a Weak Link in Critical Infrastructure
Memos
Cartels and crypto
Excerpt If the massive spike in traffic across the U.S.-Mexico border continues at its current pace, total border arrests in 2021 will be the highest since 2000, when nearly 1.7 million illegal border...
Op-eds
Senate Republicans Offer Biden a Deal on the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline
Key Senate Republicans offered the Biden administration a deal last week: If President Biden sanctions Nord Stream 2 AG (NS2 AG), the Russian-owned company responsible for the Nord Stream 2 (NS2) gas pipeline,...
Policy Briefs
Congress must fix UNRWA’s Hamas problem
The House Appropriations Committee this month approved the annual foreign aid bill on a party-line vote. The proposal includes the Biden administration’s full request to provide at least $150 million,...
Op-eds
House Hawks Look to Outbid Trump on Defense
Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis hinted in recent congressional testimony that Presi...
Policy Briefs
Obama Warns Egyptian President Morsi to Rein in Terrorists in Gaza
President Obama on Monday warned Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi that he must get the violence in Gaza under control. Frustration in the U.S. over rocket attacks on Israel from Hamas mi...
Op-eds
Disappearing Defense Funds
Last week the Senate Appropriations Committee fully funded the Obama administration’s $407 million request to develop what some are sarcastically calling “Might Eventually Almost Do S...
Op-eds
Early Warnings Ignored
September 11: A Decade Later
Op-eds
What if They Are Already Here?
A very long time ago — back in the last century, when I worked for men like Alexander Haig and Ronald Reagan — the United States government knew of at least three terrorist sleeper ce...
Op-eds
House Passes Legislation Prohibiting Funds to Iran’s Gasoline Suppliers
Language Included in FY 2010 State-Foreign Operations Appropriations Act Washington, D.C. (July 10, 2009)...
Press Releases
House Appropriations Committee Amendment Prohibits Funds to Iran’s Gasoline Suppliers
Washington, D.C. (June 24, 2009) - The Foundation for Defense of Democracies welcomed a House Appropriations Committee amendment that would prohibit certain U.S. financial support for companies t...
Press Releases
In the Border Patrol Case, the Best Defense Is a Good Offense
A report by the Homeland Security Department’s inspector general is the occasion for the latest offensive by champions of Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos, the former Border Patrol agents cur...