War on terror

July 3, 2012 | Jonathan Kay National Post |

Syed Zabiuddin Ansari, and India’s Role in Prosecuting the Global War on Terrorism

The 10 Islamist terrorists who committed the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks killed 164 innocent people with guns, grenades and bombs. Nine of the killers died during their rampage. The 10th, Ajmal...

May 17, 2012 | Clifford D. May |

Missile Defense Is For Wimps

When it comes to national security, there’s no time like mañana.

May 2, 2012 | Clifford D. May

The Foggiest War

We don’t know our enemy. What’s worse: We don’t want to.

February 22, 2012 | Clifford D. May |

Al Qaeda’s Big Fat Iranian Wedding

America’s top spy says the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism and the world’s most infamous terrorist organization are married

February 3, 2012 |

Fixing Afghanistan was a Noble Project that Became a Noble Failure

This was a bad week for Afghanistan optimists. First, the British media leaked a c...

January 5, 2012 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross Gunpowder & Lead

The Death of al Qaeda: Fawaz Gerges Edition

Few forms of writing are consistently less satisfying than “five myths” pieces. The genre, by its nature, tends toward shallow analysis and the propagation of conventional wisdom unde...

December 12, 2011 |

The Real Rules of Detention

Earlier this week, Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.) responded...

October 3, 2011 | Andrew McCarthy National Review Online

War-Power Paranoia

Zero. If you’re keeping score, that would be the number of American citizens assassinated so far by President Obama. Oddly enough, it turns out to be the same number of our countrymen kille...

September 14, 2011 | Jonathan Schanzer Middle East Quarterly

Early Warnings Ignored

September 11: A Decade Later

September 6, 2011 |

How the NYPD Gets Jihad Right

In a world of wishful thinkers, Commissioner Kelly is a realist.

August 25, 2011 |

Et Tu, Yoo?

I’m disheartened to find my friend John Yoo lending his voice to the bogus claim that opposition to U.S. intervention in Libya’s civil war makes one an “isolationist.” And...

August 25, 2011 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross Wiley

Bin Laden’s Legacy: Why We’re Still Losing the War on Terror

In the decade since 9/11, the United States has grown weaker: It has been bogged down by costly wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It has spent billions of dollars on security to protect air travel an...

August 3, 2011 |

‘Representing’ Al-Qaeda

Bravely entering the lion’s den — delivering a speech in praise of left-wing, “pro bono” lawyering to a group of left-wing, pro bono lawyers — Attorney General Eric...

June 15, 2011 | The American Thinker |

Hezb’allah Takes Control in Lebanon

After few days of discussions in Doha, Qatar, the Lebanese Government of Fuad Seniora collapsed under pressures by the Hezbollah led opposition. An agreement, fully in favor of Hezbollah was sign...

June 15, 2011 | American Thinker

How to Measure al Qaeda’s Defeat

  In an article published in the Washington Post on Friday May 30, CIA Director Michael V. Hayden is quoted as portraying al Qaeda movement as     "essential...

June 15, 2011 | World Defense Review

U.S. Engagement of Africa in the National Interest

Earlier this year, citing an array of new initiatives including the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM), the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), and the President's Emergency Plan for...

June 14, 2011 | The American Thinker

Is Al Qaeda Iraq a Threat to Sweden?

 The leader of al Qaeda in Iraq recently offered a bounty encouraging the assassination of a Swedish cartoonist and his editor for having published drawings deemed insulting to the religion...

June 14, 2011 | World Defense Review

The War on Terrorism in Africa: Assessment and Prospects

The end of one year and the beginning of another is a good time both to take stock of where we have been and to look ahead at the paths we are likely to take and the battles which we will have to...

June 14, 2011 | FrontPage

Symposium: Energy Independence and the Terror War

What is the best way for us to achieve energy independence? What is the urgency for us to do so in terms of our conflict with Islamo-Fascism? To discuss this issue with us today, Frontpage Sympos...

June 14, 2011 | The American Thinker

The ‘Bin Trotsky’ Video and the Jihadi Failure in Iraq

Has Osama bin Laden turned into Osama bin Trotsky? As I was watching bin Laden reading carefully from his prepared speech, I couldn't help but notice the dramatic drifting in the rhetoric fr...