Drone swarms: How to stop a Chinese invasion of Taiwan?
Armed drone swarms coordinated and guided by artificial intelligence (AI) could give Taiwan the needed punch to overwhelm the People’s Liberation Army...
Defense
John Rossomando – The Pentagon has no official definition of victory
Center Senior Analyst for Defense Policy, John Rossomando, joined OAN to discuss the Pentagon's definition, or lack thereof, of victory...
What Colin Powell can teach the United States about winning wars
Enshrining the Powell-Weinberger doctrine in law could ensure that future wars aren’t fought due to faulty intelligence or the passions...
Degeneration of the American strategic mind
“God protects idiots, drunkards, children, and the United States of America.”—Otto von Bismarck We can only hope that the great...
America’s terrible post-Cold War foreign policy
After writing several hundred “op-eds” on a wide range of national security issues, we confess this one writes itself —...
No strategy for victory. At least not for the good guys.
Dr. Waller's article appeared in InSIGHT, the quarterly journal of the Jewish Policy Center, Fall 2021. “Victory,” as the Department...
Situation Report: Drone strike hits US outpost in southern Syria
On October 20, unidentified drones attacked a remote U.S. base in southern Syria located near the border with Jordan. Explosions...
Obama and the Muslim Brotherhood
A new book details how the Obama administration secretly supported the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood across the Middle East...
Sweet in the mouth, bitter in the belly
Could Australia lease a couple of US Navy Los Angeles-class SSNs as a way of getting its feet wet with...
Following US lead no longer an option for Japan after Biden’s ‘strategic failure’
The messy U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan brings a realization that Japan is destined to be kept out of the loop,...
John Rossomando discusses his new book with Debbie Aldrich
Center Senior Analyst for Defense Policy, John Rossomando, joined Debbie Aldrich to discuss the release of his new book, The...
Congress should fire admirals and generals that fail
A lost time-honored tradition in the American military needs to return, firing admirals and generals who don’t perform. Congress should...
A new way to defend Taiwan
Would the United States win the battle to save Taiwan from China? Not according to a series of Pentagon simulations and war games....
Why the US military needs a new sea-launched nuclear cruise missile
Nuclear blackmail has emerged as a political bargaining chip for the Chinese. Adm. Charles Richard, commander of U.S. Strategic Command, warned on Sept....
Losing America’s future to the new nuclear superpowers
“China’s explosive growth and modernization of its nuclear and conventional forces can only be what I describe as breathtaking.” U.S....
Nation-building in Afghanistan, Iraq was never going to work
As usual, after World War I, victors plundered losers, especially the German one. The victors demanded the payment of huge...