Four Lessons Ahead of the Coming Syria Strike
President Bush declared the Global War on Terror. President Obama changed its name to the Overseas Contingency Operation. And President Trump, during the 2016 presidential […]
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What Price Victory? What Cost ‘Infinite War’?
President Trump said something this week that flew largely under the radar of a media obsessed with Stormy Daniels and whether it can get the […]
Trumping Afghanistan
Like many long-time Trump supporters, I, too, was disappointed with the president’s announcement of a “new strategy” for U.S. forces in Afghanistan. I was hoping […]
Victory: What It Will Take to Win
Editor’s Note: This essay was originally published in the Fall 2001 edition of the Claremont Review of Books. The editors are grateful for permission from […]
Victory in Afghanistan is Still Possible
“When Americans suffer casualties, they run away from battle,” the high-ranking Taliban commander, Seif Galali, famously told an Al Jazeera interviewer in 2009, after U.S. […]
Constitutional Buffoonery from the Federal District Courts
The temporary nationwide injunctions placed on President Trump’s most recent executive order, issued March 6 (“Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United […]
Iraq: A War in Three Acts
Americans love a good story. Pop culture is littered with the fictional tales of heroic characters. The majority of stories today still follow a three-act […]
Applying ‘America First’ in the Middle East
President Trump’s “America First” principle is an opportunity for the United States to adopt a more productive approach to engagement with nations in the Middle […]
The Canadian Threat to America
Donald Trump’s strict opposition to illegal immigration from Mexico and Central America earned him the undying enmity of America’s Leftist elite and the unquestioning allegiance […]
The Bookends of Failure: President Obama Teaches What Not To Do
If a monument is to be created commemorating President Barack Obama’s anti-terrorism and foreign policy legacy, etched in marble above it should be the phrase: […]
What’s Truly De·plor·a·ble
The “most qualified” candidate for president is briefed on bombings in New York and New Jersey and the best she can muster is: “I think […]
Remembering Rightly
In the wake of the 15th anniversary commemorating the September 11 terrorist attacks, a few remaining thoughts: 1. We used to lament the post-September 11 […]
The 9/11 Awakening That Still Needs to Happen
Five years ago, on what was the 10th anniversary of the September 11th attacks on our country, I offered this reflection as I recalled the […]