InternationalCommentary
President Donald Trump on Wednesday kept his campaign promise to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and ordered the State Department to make plans to eventually… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Swarms of palm-sized quadcopters perform kamikaze attacks using tiny explosives to kill selected people using facial-recognition software and social media big-data analysis. News footage shows… Read More
InternationalCommentary
“I think he has done really a great job of outsmarting our country,” Donald Trump told Larry King in 2013. He was referring to Russian… Read More
InternationalCommentary
From a distant American viewpoint, the Japanese election on Sunday was much ado about nothing. The country’s leader remained in place, the dominant party remained… Read More
SecurityNews
The military posture of the United States is rated as marginal in a new report from The Heritage Foundation, and that worries the chairman of… Read More
SecurityNews
President Donald Trump issued another clear warning Tuesday to North Korea over its aggression and defended his criticism of the National Football League for its… Read More
SecurityCommentary
After months of speculation and delay, President Donald Trump has sided with the expert advice of his military and national security team on the way… Read More
SecurityNews
President Donald Trump announced an unspecified surge of troops in Afghanistan to “kill terrorists” and “defeat the enemy” during a prime-time address Monday night to… Read More
SecurityNews
KYIV, Ukraine—In 2011, Denys Antipov, who was then a Korean language student at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, received an unusual request from the… Read More
SecurityNews
President Donald Trump said Thursday that his “fire and fury” warning to North Korea’s dictator may not have been strong enough. He also turned up… Read More
SecurityCommentary
In September 2014, I watched a tank battle from a hilltop in Mariupol, Ukraine. I toured that battlefield, the day the first cease-fire was signed,… Read More
SecurityNews
President Donald Trump issued his strongest warning yet to North Korea after published reports that the communist dictatorship has developed a nuclear warhead. “They will… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Seventy-two years after the end of World War II, Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s leadership remains a shining example of statecraft for leaders in our own… Read More
InternationalCommentary
In May, media reports indicated the Trump administration was considering returning two compounds—one in Maryland and one in New York—to Russia. Those compounds were seized… Read More
SecurityNews
A scholar of Ronald Reagan’s presidency says that by publicizing Moscow’s role in the 1981 attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II, he hopes to… Read More
SecurityNews
President Donald Trump may have no good options in responding to North Korea’s successful missile launch July 4, experts say, but a military strike is… Read More
SecurityNews
President Donald Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in have common ground in dismantling North Korea’s nuclear program, according to the White House, even if… Read More
SecurityFeature
KRZESINY AIR BASE, Poland—A Russian fighter jet last week intercepted a formation of 11 NATO aircraft, including U.S. bombers, as they flew within international airspace… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Testifying in front of the Senate Appropriations’ defense subcommittee last Wednesday, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley was characteristically blunt. When asked, he told… Read More
SecurityCommentary
As President Donald Trump settles back in Washington after his trip to Europe and the Middle East, his administration will continue to roll out related… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Editor’s Note: To help commemorate Memorial Day, we decided to share some of your comments responding to holiday pieces in recent years from Heritage Foundation national security expert James… Read More
SecurityNews
Contrary to what “pragmatists” in U.S. government agencies concluded, top officials with the Soviet Union were behind the 1981 assassination attempt on Pope John Paul… Read More
InternationalCommentary
One hundred years ago today, April 6, 1917, the United States entered World War I. The Great War’s centennial is especially poignant because of the… Read More
SocietyFeature
PRINCETON, N.J.—What began as a retreat from battle-hardened, bayonet-wielding British soldiers 240 years ago, Gen. George Washington reorganized into a counterattack after arriving with well-armed… Read More
InternationalCommentary
The shocking assassination of the Russian ambassador to Turkey at an Ankara art exhibition on Monday by a Turk seemingly motivated by the situation in… Read More
InternationalCommentary
In the past 48 hours, the temperature in the South China Sea has risen significantly. The first development came with reports that China had placed… Read More
SecurityCommentary
At sunrise on this day in 1941, the Japanese launched a surprise attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, having sailed across… Read More
InternationalCommentary
The Indian media is raising concern about President-elect Donald Trump’s phone conversation with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and what it might mean for his… Read More
SecurityFeature
KYIV, Ukraine—In July 2011, I left a decade-long career in the Air Force, which included combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan as a special operations… Read More
InternationalCommentary
The long-awaited Iraqi offensive is underway to retake Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, from the Islamic State. On Monday, Iraqi security forces began the attack from… Read More
