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...
Rewarding thugs is not an adequate policy response
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....
When you only have a hammer. . .
As should be clear by now, the alternative is war through weakness
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...
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.
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
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,...
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...
President Joe Biden and his administration must not remember the past, because they’re repeating it. ...
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.
Serious aggression by China in Taiwan or elsewhere won’t be as shocking to those in the West given what’s going on.
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...
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 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...
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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...
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...
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...