A Common Sense Strategy for North Korea
The United States needs to keep the military option on the table in dealing with the rogue regime in North Korea. Put simply, a state […]
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Trump’s Hardball Trade Tactics Are Working
When President Trump recently announced new tariffs of $50-60 billion on Chinese exports, to punish China for stealing U.S. intellectual property and coercing U.S. companies […]
Our Long History of Misjudging North Korea
North Korea has befuddled the United States and its Asian allies ever since North Korean leader Kim Il Sung launched the invasion of South Korea […]
How Trump Can Avoid Being Played By North Korea
In a shocking development, it has been revealed that North Korean strongman, Kim Jong-un, has extended an offer to meet with President Donald J. Trump […]
America Created the Sino-Russian Threat
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, […]
Who’s Really Winning the North Korea Standoff?
There have been wild reports that the United States is considering a “bloody nose” preemptive attack of some sort on North Korea’s nuclear arsenal. Such […]
A Tragic Tale of Nation Building
Few Americans today have heard of Edward Lansdale, one of the founders of modern counterinsurgency theory who was something of a cause célèbre in the 1950s […]
Why Trump Must Get Pakistan Right
The Trump Administration has rightly acknowledged that Pakistan presents a problem in America’s ongoing (and seemingly endless) Global War on Terrorism. Pakistan—like Saudi Arabia and […]
The Port Authority Attack is a Snapshot of Our Future
New York City on Monday suffered another terror attack at the hands of a young Muslim man who swore fealty to the Islamic State of […]
An America First National Security Strategy
The Trump Administration continues to run circles around its detractors. In an historically unusual move, President Donald Trump will be unveiling his administration’s first National […]
Why Carbon Taxes Actually Increase Global Emissions
As the hysteria over global warming heats up, carbon taxes have become the “cool” option. Environmentalists love them. So do politicians, who are more than […]
What Will It Take to Get Serious About Missile Defense?
North Korea’s possession of mobile-launched missiles that can deliver nukes anywhere in the United States shows that, nowadays, anybody can make lots of pinpoint-accurate missiles […]
Turkey Is No Ally
Turkey has turned its back on the West. To be fair, we in the West didn’t do much to prevent it. When Turkey sought entry […]
Standing Up to the Bully in Asia
Steven W. Mosher’s new book, Bully of Asia: Why China’s Dream is the New Threat to World Order, couldn’t arrive at a better time. Mosher […]
The Coming Threat of Chinese Censorship
In recent weeks have been dominated, as they have been for much of the past year , with talk of Russian social engineering to influence […]
Trump’s Malaysia Gambit: Call It Another Win
Less than two weeks ago there was a bit of news—little reported in the United States, but more on that later—that Malaysia had cut off […]
America is Losing the Education Race Against China—Bigly
We are no longer living in the unipolar world of the immediate post-Cold War period. This is especially clear when it comes to observing the […]
Establishment GOP Puts Cronies over Country on Missile Defense
As North Korea demonstrates America’s vulnerability to ballistic missiles, and as President Trump pledges “many billions of dollars” for “the anti-missile,” establishment Republicans are poised […]
When Did ‘Tariff’ Become a Bad Word?
President Trump last month empowered U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to investigate China’s theft of American intellectual property (IP), which costs America up to $500 […]
Nukes for Japan and South Korea? Yes—Here’s Why
Millions of Americans own a gun. About four in 10 U.S. households, in fact, have at least one firearm. People own guns for all sorts […]