Russia and China are forming a dangerous coalition of powers on Eurasia. This is bad for the United States and the world. The great geostrategist, Sir Halford Mackinder, once cautioned his audience to be on the lookout for the rise of a strong military power or an alliance of powers in Eurasia, as
China continues to make bold moves in the direction of fulfilling its ambitions of being the great global power. While China has certainly experienced economic fits—their stock market downturn in 2016 led many observers, including me, to ponder whether China was getting ready to collapse—they remain the country to watch. In fact, if present
Victor Davis Hanson believes that the United States is “gaining the upper hand” in the ongoing standoff on the Korean peninsula. I hope, for everyone’s sake, that he is right. Unfortunately, given the nature of the North Korean regime (as well as its history), I am skeptical. In the intelligence community, there is
Former Marine Corps General James Mattis is one of the best secretaries of defense the country has ever had. But even he might not have a firm enough grasp on the current threat environment that the United States faces. During a White House press conference on Wednesday, a reporter asked Mattis about his
The world has become transfixed by the historic ups-and-downs of the stock market over the past few days. The schizophrenic nature of the markets is garnering the same kind of notice one might expect from a sports commentator describing a nailbiter of a basketball game in the final, two-minute stretch. Of course, most
If there is one thing that the Democrats claim to uphold, it’s the “working man.” Yet when the much-maligned and misunderstood President Trump took to the podium for his first State of the Union address on Tuesday night, the Democrats sat silently while he proudly announced that millions of middle-class Americans are seeing
Congress passed the National Security Act of 1947 in response to the rise of Communism and the Soviet Union’s growing global threat. In general, the postwar legislation is credited with having created our modern national security apparatus. The Department of Defense, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Council all came to
When Donald Trump chose Jeff Sessions as his attorney general, it was to reward the senior U.S. Senator from Alabama for his long-standing loyalty and to help ensure the new president would have a reliable ally in the Justice Department to advance his immigration reform and drug policy agenda. Trump could not have
A classified, four-page memo outlining misconduct by the Justice Department and the FBI has scandalized Capitol Hill. Congressional Republicans claim the memo proves what President Trump and people associated with his campaign have been arguing all along: that the investigation into alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 presidential
During the late government shutdown, Republicans kept repeating the talking point that the Democrats were damaging American national security by tying up the budget over the status of 800,000 or so illegal aliens covered under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The Democrats, for their part, behaved in the manner their
