SecurityCommentary
Venezuela has issued arrest warrants for three opposition leaders for allegedly trying to destabilize the country’s socialist government and assassinate its president. These people are… Read More
SecurityNews
A humanitarian crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border and a series of foreign policy challenges have left President Obama with his some of worst public opinion… Read More
SecurityCommentary
President Obama is fond of saying he was elected to “end” wars, not start them. He clearly is tapping into Americans’ well-known weariness of wars… Read More
SecurityCommentary
“What’s the point of having this superb military that you’re always talking about if we can’t use it?” —Madeline Albright, 1993, as she argued for… Read More
SecurityCommentary
CrowdStrike, a private security technology firm, released a report last week condemning Unit 61486 of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) for cyber espionage against U.S…. Read More
SecurityCommentary
Last week’s “Friday the 13th solar flares” were one example of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) event. Whether the event is natural or man-made, such an… Read More
SecurityCommentary
The weak response by the U.S. and Europe to Russia’s illegal invasion and annexation of Crimea and continued machinations against the rest of Ukraine have… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Ballistic missile defense (BMD) is continuing to gain significant support in Canada. On June 17, the Canadian Standing Senate Committee on National Security and Defense… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Texas officials won’t wait on the federal government to secure their southern border with Mexico. Thousands of illegal immigrants, predominantly children from Central America crossing without… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Thousands are fleeing the regions of Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine, ground zero in the ongoing armed conflict between the Ukrainian army and Russian… Read More
InternationalSecurityCommentary
A recent article in Foreign Affairs argued for the elimination of all U.S. tactical nuclear weapons (TNW) currently stationed Europe. Throughout the article, Barry Blechman… Read More
SecurityNews
Why did it take nearly two years to track down the alleged leader of the 2012 Benghazi attacks when multiple journalists had contact with him… Read More
SecurityNews
Many Americans celebrated the capture of Ahmed Abu Khatallah, the alleged leader of the Benghazi attacks. But Patricia Smith, the mother of Sean Smith, one… Read More
SecurityNews
In the wake of a difficult Senate confirmation, regional protest and international consternation, George Tsunis remains on track to become the next U.S. ambassador to… Read More
SecurityNews
Hillary Clinton yesterday took a firm stand on how the U.S. should handle a wave of unaccompanied children from Central America who are migrating across… Read More
SecurityNews
As the vicious Islamist group ISIS upended the status quo in Iraq, another terrorist network — Ansar al-Sharia — broke into the headlines. Although relatively… Read More
SecurityAnalysis
As the House’s select committee on Benghazi prepares to start its work, the challenges it faces—and the questions it must answer—are numerous. Critics of the… Read More
SecurityCommentary
As South Carolina’s Republican congressman Trey Gowdy, the new chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, begins his task, it is worth recalling a… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Will the Internet continue to be the bastion of freedom and engine of economic growth it has been so far? That may be decided by… Read More
SecurityCommentary
There is a strategic dimension to the rapidly unfolding crisis in Iraq that hasn’t garnered much attention but could have a significant impact on the… Read More
SecurityNews
In response to the ongoing turmoil in Iraq as the Islamist insurgents known as ISIS advance on Baghdad, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel ordered the aircraft… Read More
SecurityNews
It’s been nearly two years since the terrorist attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, and we still have not come close to the truth…. Read More
SecurityAnalysis
U.S. special forces have captured a key suspect in the 2012 Benghazi attacks, and he is now being held (or is about to be held)… Read More
SecurityCommentary
You know things aren’t going well when the only people using your talking points are you. That is increasingly where the Obama administration finds itself… Read More
New evidence has surfaced linking the influx of underage migrants to the Obama administration’s immigration policies. Republicans have argued that the situation, fast becoming a… Read More
SecurityNews
A panel discussing the Benghazi terrorist attack assailed the media for failing to serve as watchdogs, letting the Obama administration avoid tough questions in the… Read More
SecurityNews
It’s a question many have asked, but which might not be answered anytime soon: Where was President Obama the night of the Benghazi terrorist attack? In… Read More
SecurityNews
Four letters are topping headlines around the world: ISIS. Pinned at the center of the crisis in Iraq, it’s hard to read or watch the… Read More
SecurityCommentary
He was MIA. His family could only pray they would ever see him again. On Aug. 13, 1944, U.S. Army Pfc. Lawrence S. Gordon disappeared… Read More
SecurityNews
President Obama said today that short-term military action by the U.S. won’t fix Iraq, where that nation’s army is trying to fend off Islamist insurgents who… Read More
