The Eurasian steel trap is closing
In the shadows of America’s strategic defeat in Afghanistan—the epicenter of her Twenty Years’ War against Islamist extremism—an authoritarian steel...
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After the Taliban, Iran eyes victory over US
The important visit of new Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett to Washington last month was largely overshadowed by the Afghanistan...
It’s September 10 in America
Two decades ago on September 10, 2001, Americans thought we were at peace. That illusion was shattered the morning of...
Fraud and internal immigration enforcement are forgotten lessons of 9/11
In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, one of the earliest challenges was to ascertain how the 20 conspirators – the...
Ahmad Shah Masood’s murder remembered
Twenty years ago today, al-Qaida terrorists posing as Belgian cameramen detonated a bomb that they planted in their camera that...
Utility line workers were America’s unsung heroes this Labor Day
Local and regional utility line workers are vital to community resilience and should be recognized as the emergency responders they...
Joe Biden’s bungled Afghanistan pullout obliterates US counterterrorism capabilities
President Joe Biden’s decision to give up Bagram airbase has returned U.S. counterterrorism capabilities in Afghanistan to where they were...
Making ‘allies’ of terrorists: As disastrous as you would expect
To Understand U.S. Response to Taliban, Look at Syria and Libya In the wake of the bungled U.S. withdrawal from...
‘Adults,’ ‘progress,’ and disaster
Historians will look back at the Great Afghan Fumble of 2021 and say it was there and then that the...
Japan–Taiwan ‘security’ talks: Something new and significant
Change comes slowly in Japan–especially when it involves national defense. But sometimes something happens that causes one to raise an...
Is the US intelligence community putting the world at risk?
The recent release of an unclassified summary by the Intelligence Community (IC) of its investigation into China's role in the...
Washington Post: My, that declassified report on COVID-19’s origins is ‘sparse’
I’m glad that the Washington Post editorial board has not forgotten about the questions about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, and declared...
Taiwan, Japan urged to ‘stand together’ as China threat prompts security talks
Editor's Note: Center Senior Fellow Grant Newsham was quoted in this piece by John Feng on Japan and Taiwan's military...
Biden is a threat to our national security. Congress, will you keep us safe?
In one of the most tin-eared and imbecilic speeches ever given by a U.S. president, Joe Biden claimed Tuesday that...
After Afghanistan
We may be doomed to repeat history, but we can still learn from it. As the sad American surrender of Afghanistan lurches to...
How Obama’s “civilian surge” led to political defeat in Afghanistan
War has been described as politics by violent means. When a country loses a war, ultimately it is a political...