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National Security in a New Administration January 23, 2025

It’s Trump’s World Now To Win or Lose January 23, 2025

President Trump is taking the country down a very different geopolitical path. The yet-to-be-determined future of the Land of Oz lies ahead, especially in Ukraine, the Middle East and the Indo-Pacific. ...

Donald Trump

Trump’s 'America First' Is Not Realism January 22, 2025

Some observers have approvingly claimed that the second Trump administration heralds a realist revival in American foreign policy. Writing in Foreign Affairs, Robert O’Brien, who served as national security adviser in the first Trump administration, ...

America First

Panama: From Zoned Out to Strategic Opportunity January 17, 2025

Since his election in November 2024, President Donald Trump has staked out strong positions on the importance of the Western Hemisphere to the United States’ national security interests. A secure, prosperous, and free Western Hemisphere underpins U.S...

Panama

The GOP Is No Longer the Party of National Security January 15, 2025

Not long after Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth read his opening statement and began fielding questions from the Senate Armed Services Committee, I began thinking: I hope neither America’s allies nor its enemies are watching this. The hope w...

Pete Hegseth

How America Can Rebuild Its Fleet January 15, 2025

China last month mounted its largest show of force around Taiwan in almost 30 years, with more than 90 naval or paramilitary vessels and dozens of aircraft operating in the air and waters around Taiwan’s ports and Japan’s southernmost islands....

Rep. Wittman: Trump’s Plans for Greenland, Panama Canal Serve National Security January 13, 2025

Americas

Trump Must Build on Texas’ Successful Border Work January 13, 2025

Texas has faithfully executed the law and played a vital role in national security — a role the state must now maintain and reinforce....

Texas

border security

Unrest in Iran Grows Over Economic Turmoil January 10, 2025

Iran’s public discontent surged in recent weeks as economic hardships, including widespread power outages and rising inflation, fueled calls for change, Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) researcher Benny Sabti told Maariv on Friday. ...

iran

Transforming Russia from Spoiler to Pivot Player January 08, 2025

The invasion of Ukraine has underscored Russia’s enduring capacity to disrupt global stability. Yet, as the United States navigates an increasingly competitive geopolitical environment dominated by China’s ascendancy, we must recalibrate our strategy...

Russia

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china

Real Life Star Wars is Happening - and UK Isn't Ready December 05, 2024

What’s going on up there can no longer be divorced from terrestrial geopolitics, geo-economics and statecraft...

national security

Defence

china

Putin’s Overseas Empire Is Collapsing December 04, 2024

It has been another bad week for Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin. ...

Russia

Zelensky’s Diplomatic Play for Trump December 02, 2024

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Keith Kellogg, a former national security adviser and decorated retired U.S. general, to be his special envoy to Ukraine and Russia has reassured a nervous Kyiv up to a point. ...

Ukraine

Finland’s Preparedness Isn’t Exactly Good for Business December 02, 2024

This year, the country was named the happiest in the world — for the seventh time in a row. It managed to join NATO without Russian punishment. And its all-encompassing national security efforts have gained global media attention, with The New York T...

Finland

China Retools Its Economy for a New Geopolitical Age July 27, 2024

In 2014, at the inaugural meeting of the National Security Commission, China officially introduced the concept of “comprehensive national security,” framing economic security as its basis. ...

china

Russia’s Gateways into the Indo-Pacific July 26, 2024

In September 2022, after both the invasion of Ukraine and a military takeover in Myanmar, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing met with Russian President Vladimir Putin under the umbrella of the Eastern Economic Forum (an event held in Vladivostok) to expl...

U.S. Innovation and National Security Made Vulnerable July 26, 2024

The United States is in a global competition with other nations for leadership in critical and emerging technologies. To succeed, we must protect the national treasures that will ensure America leads the world in such fields as semiconductors, artif...

national security

How To Strike back Against the Houthis July 24, 2024

On Sunday, Israel carried out a long-range aerial attack on the Yemeni port of Hodeidah. The air strike, a retaliation for a drone incursion into Tel Aviv a day earlier that left one dead, killed at least six and wounded scores more in a signal that ...

Houthis

50 Years Later: Turkey’s ‘Cyprus Model’ Is Still Dangerous July 23, 2024

Turkey’s Cyprus Model Could Destroy the International Liberal Order: Today marks the 50th anniversary of Turkey’s invasion of Cyprus....

Turkey

The China-Only Republicans July 20, 2024

The Republican concern with China’s threat to America is understandable, arguably even laudable, as many of China’s economic, security, and human rights policies do, in fact, challenge America. ...

NATO’s Finland Test July 18, 2024

During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin, the President and three-decade autocrat of the Federation, claimed NATO expansion was a pretext for the full-scale war. However, several nations’ current actions, including Russia, contradict th...

NATO

The Fall of the Sahel: A Generational Foreign Policy Failure July 18, 2024

U.S. troops just withdrew from Niger’s Air Base 101—the latest phase in an ongoing complete evacuation of U.S. forces that began following a coup in the African nation one year ago. As an isolated incident this would be troubling enough: however, Nig...

At 75, NATO Has Forgotten Its Purpose July 15, 2024

The 75th anniversary of NATO is a momentous occasion, marking one of the longest-lived international partnerships in history. Yet its Washington Summit showed that the Atlantic alliance has forgotten its purpose. ...

NATO

War Has Exposed Russia for What It Is: In Decline July 15, 2024

Thanks to his imperial impulses and the regime’s incompetency, what was predicted to be a 3-day operation in Ukraine has become an enduring nightmare. After nearly two and one-half years of war, Russia’s pattern of ineptitude, disorganization, corru...

Russia

The Problems Still Plaguing NATO July 13, 2024

This week’s NATO summit in Washington is, by any measure, a grand affair, full of the pomp and ceremony befitting the bloc’s 75th anniversary. It also offers up a useful opportunity to reflect on the state of the most successful military alliance in ...

NATO