In War on Terror 2.0, the Watchword Is: ‘Be Careful for What You Wish’
The narrative coming from the administration decries the threat of violence from only the right.
War on terror
The option that should have been taken in Afghanistan
One year after the Biden administration’s chaotic exit from Afghanistan, the results are undeniable. The country has become a haven for Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups. The Taliban is as oppressive...
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Paper Trail of Terror
In autumn of 2017, my colleague Thomas Joscelyn was invited to visit the Central Intelligence Agency. It was a long time coming. He and our colleague Bill Roggio at FDD’s Long War Journal had for...
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Forging the American-Israeli Alliance of the Future
In the shadow of the ISIS-K attack that killed 13 American troops in Afghanistan, Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett met President Joe Biden at the White House. The visit reaffirmed the close ties...
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Diplomatic Arson in the Middle East
The Biden administration’s torching of U.S.-Saudi relations
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Enhancing Special Operations for Sustained Counterterrorism Operations
Retain American Power, Do Not Restrain It
The call for the United States to show “restraint” by withdrawing from foreign entanglements and keeping the focus at home is growing in foreign-policy circles – and not just in the Trump administration....
Bringing the Middle East Back Home
The American Orientalist Class attempts to paint a fantasy Middle Eastern landscape on the American canvas
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Rock, Paper, Scissors in the Middle East
Trump’s is the latest play in a decadeslong game of trying to counter previous ‘peace process’ moves by each new American administration
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Another unhappy 9/11 anniversary
We continue to fight erratically and without a coherent global strategy.
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Caliphate, interrupted
After being bombarded by four years of U.S. airstrikes, a relentless ground campaign by Kurdish-led U.S. allies, and attacks from Russian, Syri...
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FDD Launches New Center on Military and Political Power
Names H.R. McMaster as Chairman and Bradley Bowman as Senior Director
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The Senate’s Blind Spot on Terrorism in Yemen
On Tuesday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee pressed hard on top administration officials to justif...
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In search of a grand U.S. strategy
Richard Nixon’s rapprochement with China, the end of the Cold War, President Obama’s outreach to “the Muslim world,” the growth of the (largely American-funded) United Nat...
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Here’s What All Those Terror Terms Actually Mean
After the attacks in Paris and California, the debate in America has again erupted over the appropriate lexicon for discussing terrorism. Here’s an extremely abridged, alphabetized list of...
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Britain’s Corbyn Is No Laughing Matter
"Few people outside Britain have ever heard of Jeremy Corbyn," the British journalist Nick Cohen ...
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FDD Names Board of Advisors to Help Guide Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance
WASHINGTON – The Foundation for Defense of Democracies today announced 18 experts who will serve as members of the Board of Advisors for its Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance (CSIF)....
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In Africa, a Real “War on Women”
Last week, more than a hundred Nigerian students, girls between 15 and 18 years of age, were kidnapped by the al Qaeda-affiliated terrorists of Boko Haram. Most of the girls are still being held....
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The Road to Damascus Starts in Tehran
It’s Middle East Groundhog Day all over again. The discussion of What To Do About Syria is a replay of What To Do About Saddam: it’s all about the wrong war in the wrong p...
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It’s Time to Threaten Egypt’s Aid
The Egyptian military’s slaughter of hundreds of protesters on Wednesday leaves the United States with a single clear, albeit difficult, course of action: Condition future aid to Egypt on a...