Aiding the abduction of Ukrainian children must come with consequences
“They do not like the light of day. They’re like vampires,” former U.S. War Crimes Ambassador David Crane said about private corporations and their leaders that facilitate war...
Yale University
Putin’s New Nationalities Strategy Seeks To Erase Ukrainian Identity
While he accuses Kyiv of repressing Russian identity and language in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin is working to erase Ukrainian identity in Ukrainian territories he has illegally annexed....
Policy Briefs
New Satellite Evidence Shows Mass Graves Following Paramilitary Massacre in Sudanese City
Graves Located Near 2 Hospitals: New satellite images from North Darfur suggest an ongoing massacre in the city of el-Fasher by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary organization....
Flash Briefs
RSF seizes El Fasher, forcing Sudanese Armed Forces withdrawal
The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has captured El Fasher, the capital of Sudan’s North Darfur State, forcing a complete withdrawal of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF). On October 26, RSF personnel stormed the...
Op-eds
Reports of Atrocities as RSF Paramilitary Forces Gain Control of Last Government Stronghold in Darfur
RSF Now Controls Entirety of Darfur: The Sudanese Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group has finally seized control of el-Fasher in the Northern Darfur region following a...
Flash Briefs
Some Campus Protesters Despise America as Much as They Do Israel
The epicenter of campus protests has recently shifted from occupation of buildings and quads, to the disruption of commencement ceremonies as students prepare to leave campus. This provides an opportunity...
Op-eds
How Universities Can Take Back the Quad
They have student codes of conduct, they just need to enforce them.
Op-eds
Why India will face political and trade hurdles as long as Iran’s Islamic regime remains in power
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Op-eds
U.S. Lawfare Options for Helping Bring Hamas to its Knees
Pressuring Qatar and Turkey to Quickly Detain Hamas Leaders
Memos
The Corruption War: Russia Is Losing The War For The Same Reason It Started It
On Feb. 21, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin cited corruption as a motivator for his decision to invade Ukraine. While complaining about Ukrainian corruption in his televised speech on...
Op-eds
The Weaponization of Capital
Strategic Implications of China’s Private Equity/Venture Capital Playbook
Memos
Russia Created a Refugee Crisis, and Now Putin Is Weaponizing It
With Russia causing two migration crises—one by bloodshed in the east and the other by famine in the south—the United States must act now.
Op-eds
Biden risking new wars with Iran ‘diplomacy’ — and our Middle East allies know it
Excerpt “It’s time to end this forever war” — those were President Biden’s words as he issued the order for U.S. troops to withdraw from Afghanistan. America’s chaotic withdrawal certainly...
Op-eds
Gaslighting Nations—Erdogan Makes a Mockery of U.N. General Assembly—Again
The term “United Nations,” which U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt coined in 1942, reflected a commitment, articulated in the Declaration of United Nations, to “defend life, liberty,...
Op-eds
Defusing Military-Civil Fusion
The Need to Identify and Respond to Chinese Military Companies
Monographs
FDD Launches New Center on Military and Political Power
Names H.R. McMaster as Chairman and Bradley Bowman as Senior Director
Press Releases
Came the revolution
My political orientation has evolved slowly over decades. With one exception: I became anti-Soviet and anti-Communist overnight. More quickly than that, actually. The year was 1972. I wa...
Op-eds
War on Campus
Don’t look to college “leaders” to defend free speech and shut down the rioters. It doesn’t work that way. Universities almost always collapse in the face of student prote...
Op-eds
Done Deal?
All administrations are short-sighted. Even the brightest, most reflective people can develop acute tunnel vision when they join the paper-pushing, crisis-a-minute senior ranks of the National Se...
Op-eds
The Rhyme and Reason of Jihad
You probably didn’t know it but Osama bin Laden was a poet. In fact, according to Yale’s Robyn Creswell and Princeton’s Bernard Haykel, “of all jihadi poets, bin Laden was...