SecurityNews
KYIV, Ukraine—In a visit here, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday underscored America’s commitment to help Ukraine defend itself from Russian aggression, downplaying concerns… Read More
SecurityNews
KYIV, Ukraine—U.S. officials say Iran likely shot down a Ukrainian airliner by accident Wednesday morning, just hours after the Islamist regime launched a barrage of… Read More
SecurityNews
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., berated President Donald Trump’s administration Thursday and cast the Iraqi people as victims on the House floor. Omar said the Trump… Read More
PoliticsNews
The Democrat-controlled House approved a resolution late Thursday aimed at reining in President Donald Trump’s future actions on Iran and condemning him for not notifying… Read More
LawCommentary
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, is a serious constitutional scholar. He grew up around the law and has a profound respect for the Constitution, its structure… Read More
InternationalNews
Tensions between the United States and Iran seem to be deescalating again, but the countries clearly are still at loggerheads. Much media attention has been… Read More
SecurityNews
KYIV, Ukraine—A Ukrainian International Airlines Boeing 737-800 crashed Wednesday morning only minutes after takeoff from Tehran and only hours after Iran launched a barrage of ballistic… Read More
SecurityNews
Less than 24 hours after Iran fired 15 missiles at U.S. military facilities in Iraq, President Donald Trump signaled a strong desire to deescalate by… Read More
SecurityNews
Iran lobbed more than a dozen ballistic missiles at U.S. military forces in Iraq, mostly at a remote base at al-Assad, the Defense Department said… Read More
SecurityCommentary
We are just one week into 2020, and already Europe has suffered its first Islamist terrorist attack of the year. On Friday, a 22-year-old French… Read More
SecurityNews
The United States will not target “cultural sites” in Iran for military strikes, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said, days after President Donald Trump alluded… Read More
SecurityNews
The confrontational political environment in Washington made it more difficult for the president to give Congress advance notice of the U.S. drone strike that killed… Read More
SecurityCommentary
At the August 2017 gathering of the Aspen Security Forum, one of the prominent security conferences held annually in the United States, a panel discussed… Read More
President Donald Trump ordered an airstrike in Iraq on Thursday that killed Gen. Qassim Suleimani, one of the most senior members of the Iranian government…. Read More
SecurityCommentary
The U.S. airstrike Thursday night that killed Iranian Gen. Qassim Suleimani was a bold and decisive effort to remove a key Iranian military and terrorist… Read More
SecurityNews
KYIV, Ukraine—After a U.S. airstrike in Iraq killed Iran’s top military commander, members of a coalition of Iraq-based, Kurdish Iranian militias say they are ready… Read More
SecurityNews
Iran is threatening retaliation and Iraq is considering forcing U.S. officials out of the country after an American drone strike killed Qassem Suleimani, the notorious… Read More
SecurityCommentary
The People’s Republic of China this week officially became a producer of aircraft carriers. The Shandong entered service, introducing the first domestically produced aircraft carrier… Read More
InternationalCommentary
I recently came across Stanley Sloan’s Dec. 7 Facebook post, in which he let his friends and followers know that his planned address for the… Read More
SecurityCommentary
A parade was scheduled for the morning of Saturday, Dec. 16, 1944, for members of 1st Battalion, 109th Infantry Regiment, 28th Infantry Division in Diekirch,… Read More
SecurityFeature
KYIV, Ukraine—When the guitarist for Deep Purple hit those epic opening notes of “Smoke on the Water,” my 54-year-old Ukrainian father-in-law grabbed me by the… Read More
SecurityCommentary
“Thank you for your service.” Our troops hear that often from their fellow Americans, and not just during the holidays. Well, our gratitude can go… Read More
SecurityCommentary
The Department of Defense this month partnered with Texas A&M University to co-sponsor Drone Venture Day, the first event of the Pentagon’s new Trusted Capital… Read More
SecurityCommentary
KYIV, Ukraine—As the Russian shells and rockets rained down on them in the frontline town of Debaltseve in February 2015, Ukrainian troops began to receive… Read More
SecurityCommentary
The America that we cherish and hope to pass on to the next generation depends on the promise that we have a military strong enough… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Almost as soon as it became clear that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was dead, the revisionism began about whether this was actually a good… Read More
SecurityFeature
RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany—Exactly 75 years and one week after the first American patrol crossed into Nazi Germany during World War II, hundreds of U.S…. Read More
SecurityCommentary
Movie sequels rarely top the original. But that doesn’t mean they can’t offer some useful real-world lessons. Take “Rocky III.” The film starts off with… Read More
SecurityNews
America’s military is stronger than before, but lacks the capacity to fight more than one war with a major power as adversaries such as China… Read More
SecurityCommentary
How prepared is the United States military to defend the American homeland, win wars abroad, and preserve freedom of commerce internationally? Marginally. “Marginal” is a… Read More
