Pentagon: China’s Military Has Begun To Surpass The United States’s
New Pentagon paper paints a grim picture of a fractured, debt-ridden America in competition with an emerging Chinese empire.
3 Major Reforms NATO Needs To Keep From Collapsing
NATO is doing a relatively poor job, buttressed by a static decision-making process, a bureaucracy resistant to change, and unaccountable member states who are happy to cheap-ride and get away with it.
Deterring Chinese Military Ambitions Before It’s Too Late
National security reporter Bill Gertz’s new book, ‘Deceiving the Sky: Inside Communist China’s Drive for Global Supremacy,’ offers vital reporting on the Chinese threat and worthwhile ideas for keeping the Chinese communists in their place.
DIA Employee Arrested For Leaks Was In A Romantic Relationship With Journalist
An employee at the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency was arrested Wednesday on federal charges of leaking top secret classified information to two reporters.
Don’t Dismiss Trump’s U.S.-Israel Pact Tweet As A ‘Political Stunt’
Given the complexity and intensity of the existing U.S.-Israel alliance, it seems unlikely that a pact of this nature would alter the dynamic tremendously. It may, however, alter the behavior of Israel’s neighbors.
Why Trump’s Cyber Attack On Iran Was The Right Move
Cyber attacks are the future of warfare. By launching one against Iran, Trump has increased the threat to Iran without plunging the United States into war.
Germany’s Refusal To Fund 2 Percent Of Its Defense Is Not The Action Of An Ally
German leaders should be allowed to see how safe and united the European Union remains when all the American troops move out from everywhere east of the Thames.
Why The United States Should Not Pay For 79 Percent Of South Korea’s National Defense
To the many critics who accuse President Trump of tearing down the international order, even requesting more money from allies is wrong. But South Korea should pay substantively more.
Trump’s Not Kidding When He Promises ‘Cutting-Edge’ Missile Defense
The steps called for in this review will go a long way to toward employing new technologies to address next-generation threats and strengthening U.S. and allied security.
The Government Shutdown Is The Perfect Time To Finally Abolish The TSA
The TSA is incompetent at making people safer, plus privatization would take away the TSA’s growing political leverage. What’s not to like?
The U.S. Should Always Be Ready To Deploy Military Strikes Against Iran
It’s completely shocking that this isn’t obvious to laymen and Washington insiders. After four decades of aggression from Iran, we should look at options.
Trump Is Only Shocking On NATO Because He’s Saying Out Loud What Everybody Already Knew
Whether you like Trump or not, whether you like NATO or not, it’s time to face all the ugly truths we have long avoided facing, because foreign policy is about to change in a very serious way.
Why America Needs To Get Out Of ‘Africa’s Afghanistan’ In Somalia
With well more than 7,000 troops on the continent, the United States has troops in 50 of Africa’s 54 countries, and is conducting combat missions in roughly 20 African countries.
How The United States Can Start Winning Wars Again
In order to understand what guidance natural law gives us about war and peace in our time, it is first necessary to have some understanding of what ‘natural law’ is.
It’s Time For The United States To Stop Funding Other Wealthy Countries’ Defense
Article 5’s commitment to common defense means nothing if other NATO members aren’t making, or actively trying to make, their contributions to the club.
Talk About ‘Little Nukes’ Is Cover For Lacking A Foreign Policy Strategy
This is a bad idea whose time has already come and gone, and the nuclear warriors’ ideas are just as bad now as they were 15 or 20 years ago.
Nixon’s North Korea Dilemma Illuminates Why It’s So Hard To Bomb Small Countries
Long before Iraq and Iran, the United States was wrestling with the problem of how to strike North Korea, where planning for the use of nuclear weapons ran into various dead-ends.
New Army Training Tells Female Soldiers To ‘Accept’ Naked Men In Their Showers
I recently received a copy of the new ‘Tier Three Transgender Training’ materials that the U.S. Army is now using in mandatory training for all soldiers.
There Are No Good Options For Handling North Korea’s Belligerence
With each test, the hermit nation gets closer to subjecting the rest of world to apocalyptic danger. What can the United States do about it?