High time for real US-Japan defense cooperation
The Financial Times recently reported that when US President Joseph Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida meet in April they will announce a...
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Australia’s Collins-class: Waste of money or dangerous submarine?
The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) currently operates six Collins-class diesel-electric submarines based at HMAS Stirling. These ships were expected to retire by...
Louisiana House committee approves bill to prohibit land sales to foreign foes
Editor's Note: This piece by Steve Wilson features quotes from CSP Senior Analyst and Director for State Outreach, Christopher Holton....
The Biden administration’s war against the government of Israel
The war rages in the Gaza Strip, northern Israel, Lebanon, Eilat and on the streets of Israel’s cities as Iran’s...
How to address the CCP threat: Engagement, defeatism, or victory
Broadly, the U.S. foreign policy community has developed three distinct schools of thought regarding how to address relations with the...
The US Navy’s A-4 Skyhawk was armed to the teeth
The Douglas A-4 Skyhawk, a marvel of military engineering introduced in the early 1950s, has etched its name into aviation...
Japan stands up amphibious rapid deployment brigade, electronic warfare unit for defense of southwest islands
The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force last week formally activated the 3rd Regiment of its Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade, a key...
Bill to ban foreign adversaries from owning farmland returns to Capitol
Editor's Note: This piece by Chris Rosato features quotes from CSP Senior Analyst and Director for State Outreach, Christopher Holton....
The Philippines is hoping history doesn’t repeat itself, again
President George W. Bush once described himself as “a uniter, not a divider.” China’s leader, Xi Jinping is a uniter...
Are the Democrats beginning to step in the proverbial buffalo patties on Israel?
Last week—corresponding ominously to the Ides of March—the Democratic establishment in the United States laid down the gauntlet to Israel’s...
You’ve heard about weaponization of the FBI and CIA; now they’re weaponizing the internet
With the FBI’s political censorship of social media exposed, proponents of weaponized government are using a different tool: Biden's Federal Communications Commission....
How the F-4 Phantom fighter went to war for Israel
The arrival of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom in Israel in the late 1960s marked a pivotal moment in the...
FY25 budget hinders 3 key US Army capabilities for Indo-Pacific region
To build deterrence capacity in the Western Pacific, the U.S. military has to overcome four tyrannies: distance, water, time, and...
Give Taiwan’s youth a fighting chance against China
One might get the impression that Taiwan’s defense is just a question of having the right weapons and hardware. But there’s...
Great challenges are ubiquitous but Americans can best them
Wherever one looks, it seems that the U.S. is on the backfoot. In domestic U.S. politics, it seems that there...
The triumph of the blood libel
According to Canada’s La Presse, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a vampire, and he is poised to suck the life...