China’s Senkaku Incursions Are Flying under US Radar
China is putting coercive pressure on a US treaty ally every day in the East China Sea. Washington is barely paying attention.
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Bulgaria approved U.S. Tankers Over Tehran’s Objections
Bulgaria’s parliament approved a U.S. request to station up to eight KC-135 aerial refueling aircraft and 250 military personnel at Bezmer Air Base in southeastern Bulgaria despite direct, public objections...
Insights
Seeking forgiveness from the Taliban
Generation Jihad
Germany’s Expanding Defense Partnership With Israel Hit Troubled Waters. It’s Too Valuable To Sink.
As America’s NATO allies boost their defense spending and capabilities to counter Russian aggression, Germany is turning to Israel. After fielding its first Israeli-made Arrow 3 ballistic...
Op-eds
Trading Away Lebanon: Washington’s Bargains at Beirut’s Expense
For the fifth time since 1958, the U.S. has placed Lebanon on the bargaining table, this time ready to sacrifice the country’s interests in pursuit of a deal with Iran.
Op-eds
Findings of the Commission on Cyber Force Generation
Media Calls
U.S. Marines Moving Ahead with Israeli Interceptor Technology
The conflict with Iran revealed that the U.S. has substantial air and missile defense vulnerabilities, especially against drones. Thankfully, the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) is making progress to...
Op-eds
China Is Preparing for a Robot-Led Taiwan Invasion
China’s use of military robotics is a warning to the United States and Taiwan to accelerate robotics deployment and counter-robotics defenses to preserve deterrence.
Op-eds
8 Things To Know About Marine Expeditionary Units
Two U.S. Marine Expeditionary Units (MEUs) are poised to play a role in the Middle East as a tenuous ceasefire takes hold between the United States and Iran. The 31st MEU, based in Okinawa, Japan, arrived...
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How to assess America’s 40 days of war against Iran
Washington and Tehran are both arguing that they were victorious after 40 days of fighting. A detailed analysis, however, suggests a more nuanced picture in which American forces degraded Iran’s core...
Op-eds
Iran intensifies recruitment, repression amid reports of thousands of security deaths, Washington weighs ground operations
Washington has signaled readiness to expand operations, including potential ground options, while continuing strikes on Iran’s military and weapons infrastructure. At the same time, the sustained Israeli...
Op-eds
Why seizing Iran’s Kharg Island could be a trap of America’s own making
The battle for the Persian Gulf could be entering a new phase as thousands of US Marines are reportedly due to arrive in the Middle East on Friday, the same day that President Donald Trump’s...
Op-eds
Strait talk
American victory passes through Hormuz
Op-eds
Regime Change Without Nation Building
America and Israel are at war with Iran, a fact that should be neither shocking nor surprising. Both countries have been targeted by the Islamic Republic since its inception in 1979. Both countries...
Op-eds
Iranian and Iranian-Backed Attacks Against Americans (1979-Present)
Armed conflict between the United States and Iran did not begin in 2026, but instead has deep roots that extend back to the 1979 Islamic Revolution. For nearly five decades, the clerical regime in Tehran...
Insights
Trump’s Iran Exceptionalism
His predecessors talked tough about the Islamic Republic, but Trump has done things an ardent hawk would only dream of.
Op-eds
What the LAF Chief’s Visit to the U.S. Revealed
Lindsey Graham portrayed his meeting with Rodolphe Haykal, which collapsed within minutes, as a complete debacle. The U.S. senator asked the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) chief if Hezbollah was a terrorist...
Op-eds
Iran’s New IRGC Deputy Chief Is Responsible for American, Iranian, and Israeli Deaths
Ahmad Vahidi, a veteran of the Islamic Republic’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), was named its deputy commander on December 31, 2025, by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. The IRGC was established in 1979...
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How Venezuela’s Maduro became Washington’s most persistent hemispheric adversary
On November 13, US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced Operation Southern Spear amid an increased American military presence off the coast of Venezuela. Hegseth stated that the...