10 Things to Know About Hezbollah
1. Hezbollah is an Iran-backed Islamist terrorist organization Hezbollah (also spelled “Hizballah”) is a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization and a political party based in Lebanon. The...
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Can the U.S. Arm Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan at the Same Time?
The Biden administration has moved quickly to send Israel weapons following Hamas’ deadly October 7 terror attack. This laudable step has some asking whether U.S. military assistance to Israel might...
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Hezbollah Threatens U.S., Israel 40 Years After Deadly Beirut Blast
October 23 marked the 40th anniversary of the suicide bombing that took the lives of 241 U.S. peacekeepers in Beirut, 58 French servicemembers carrying out the same mission, and...
Flash Briefs
How War Could Engulf the Entire Middle East
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Op-eds
U.S. Surges Additional Combat Forces to the Middle East
The Pentagon confirmed on October 17 that Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin approved the extension of the Ford Carrier Strike Group in the Eastern Mediterranean. Likewise, Washington...
Flash Briefs
Biden to Visit Israel as Key Policy Questions Loom
President Joe Biden will travel to Israel on October 18 to show American support for the Jewish state as it deals with the aftermath of a brutal terrorist attack by Hamas. Secretary...
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Iran-backed Houthi Strike in Saudi Arabia Kills Three
A third Bahraini soldier died on September 27 from injuries sustained in a Houthi drone strike in Saudi Arabia on September 25 that killed two Bahraini soldiers. At the time of the...
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Anatomy of a Catastrophe
REVIEW: ‘Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden’s Fiasco and the American Warriors Who Fought to the End’ by Jerry Dunleavy and James Hasson
Op-eds
Northern Mariana: Time to close China’s backdoor into the U.S.
‘The Northern Marianas economy continues to struggle, and the government remains in deep fiscal distress. These are conditions that make the commonwealth acutely vulnerable to CCP exploitation’.
Op-eds
In sign of weakness, pro-PRC Solomons PM avoids meeting US Congress members
PM Sogavare avoided meeting a US Congressional Delegation that was visiting the country. Not a single government minister met the two Members of Congress during their time in the capital, Honiara.
Op-eds
U.S. May Put Military Personnel on Commercial Ships to Deter Iran’s Harassment
The Pentagon is considering placing armed U.S. Marines and Navy sailors on commercial ships in response to increased Iranian attempts to harass and seize vessels traveling through the Strait of Hormuz,...
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U.S. fighting China on the wrong battlefield
While the U.S. has been focused on preparing for the kinetic warfare battlefield, China has been registering big wins on the political warfare battlefield. You can see it all over the Pacific Islands.
Op-eds
Marines Need to Move beyond Their Amphibious-Assault Past
Shifting the USMC's concept of operations will help confront China.
Op-eds
Friends of China have huge influence on Capitol Hill: Grant Newsham
‘When Beijing throws in the allure of money, they make short work of Wall Street and America’s business class—and academia as well.’
Op-eds
Biden weakness on Russia’s hostage-taking puts Americans abroad at risk
Russian President Vladimir Putin dealt a significant blow to the safety of Americans living and traveling abroad last week with the abduction of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich. With...
Op-eds
Lawmakers, Former Top Officials Offer Bipartisan Rebuke of Biden’s Syria Policy
Earlier today, an open letter to President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken condemned the administration’s passive response to Arab governments’ accelerating normalization...
Flash Briefs
Beijing’s Subversive Political Warfare in the Pacific—and the Need for Greater Engagement by the United States and Taiwan
Honduras has said it intends to shift diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to China. We know this story: with the exception of 2007, when St. Lucia switched from Beijing to Taipei, the trend has run in this...
Op-eds
China’s global supremacists
The Communists in Beijing have grand ambitions
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‘PRC’s political warfare is total war without fighting major kinetic wars’
Kerry Gershaneck, a former US Marine officer and a university professor, speaks to The Sunday Guardian.
Op-eds
Fascism for dummies
Those using the word should at least know what it means