The U.S. Marine Corps

July 30, 2024 | Joe Truzman |

Israeli airstrike kills top Lebanese Hezbollah commander

An Israeli airstrike in the southern suburbs of Beirut killed Lebanese Hezbollah senior commander Fuad Shukr, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) stated on July 30. This retaliatory strike came in...

July 24, 2024 | Clifford D. May |

America held hostage

Rewarding thugs is not an adequate policy response

July 20, 2024 | Bradley Bowman, Lydia LaFavor

Build Iron Dome in the United States To Prepare for Israel’s Worst Day

Israel is racing to build more Iron Dome air defense systems amid a growing threat of war with Hezbollah, which has a massive stockpile of more than 150,000 mortars, rockets, and missiles....

July 10, 2024 | Will Selber, Bill Roggio

David Petraeus Is Wrong: Counterinsurgency Won’t Work in Gaza

When you only have a hammer. . .

June 26, 2024 | Clifford D. May |

Would Trump re-establish peace through strength?

As should be clear by now, the alternative is war through weakness

June 20, 2024 | Cleo Paskal |

Remembering Saipan: The battle that reshaped the Pacific

Nine days after D-Day, on June 15, 1944, the Battle of Saipan erupted on the other side of the world. It was to be as pivotal for the Pacific Theater as D-Day was for the war in Europe. Eighty years...

May 13, 2024 | Cleo Paskal, Col. Grant Newsham

How China is Winning the Solomon Islands

Since 2019, Beijing has spent a considerable amount of money and effort setting up its position in the Solomon Islands and openly assisting in the crushing of dissent.

April 10, 2024 | Col. Grant Newsham, Cleo Paskal

NATO Isn’t Defending Guam, But Others Are

NATO provisions don’t include security guarantees for American Pacific Territories. But other U.S. treaty allies do—which is why this week’s meetings in D.C. are so important

February 8, 2024 | David Daoud |

Part I – Hezbollah’s narrative on Al-Aqsa Flood: Tailored to appeal to specific Western sensibilities

Part one in a three-part series. “How will I conquer this beleaguered one? He possesses courage, ingenuity, resourcefulness, and tools of war.’ And then he said, ‘I’ll not rob his strength,...

December 17, 2023 | Cleo Paskal, Col. Grant Newsham

In the Pacific, U.S. bureaucracy messes up against PRC influence operation

I have no idea what the U.S. State Department was thinking. But if the goal was to help honest people in a highly strategic country that is also a close ally protect themselves against Chinese influence...

November 13, 2023 | Andrea Stricker |

Prevent the Gaza Conflict From Turning Into a Regional Conflagration  

President Joe Biden and his administration must not remember the past, because they’re repeating it. ...

November 12, 2023 | Cleo Paskal, Col. Grant Newsham

Australia: Neo-imperialist or climate change saviour?

Australia gets a remarkable set of rights from the Pacific island country of Tuvalu in exchange for things it can mostly find a reason to not do if it wants.

November 5, 2023 | Cleo Paskal, Col. Grant Newsham

Seven ways China can benefit from the Israel-Hamas war

Serious aggression by China in Taiwan or elsewhere won’t be as shocking to those in the West given what’s going on.

November 3, 2023 |

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...

October 24, 2023 | Ryan Brobst, Bradley Bowman

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...

October 24, 2023 | |

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...

October 21, 2023 | David Adesnik |

How War Could Engulf the Entire Middle East

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October 18, 2023 | |

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...

October 17, 2023 | |

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...

September 28, 2023 | |

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...