SecurityCommentary
Keeping America Safe Involves Morally Difficult Decisions
It is quite rare for governments to be able to craft a policy that contains no moral complexities. When it comes to national security policy,… Read More
SecurityNews
What Republican Lawmakers Say About Trump’s Order on Refugees
Republicans in Congress had mixed reactions in the immediate wake of President Donald Trump’s executive order Friday stopping individuals from seven countries where Islamist terrorists… Read More
SecurityNews
Experts Debate Whether Trump’s Refugee Order Will Make America Safer
With an executive order signed Friday, President Donald Trump delivered on his campaign promise to impose a restrictive U.S. policy toward refugee resettlement and other… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Trump Refugee Order Balances Security and Compassion
Read any commentary on the just signed executive order on visa and refugee vetting from several countries in the Middle East and odds are the… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Terror Attack in Germany Puts Spotlight on Refugee Policy
Before this year, Germany was not used to Islamist terrorists striking on its home soil. A lot has changed since. The terror threat that haunts… Read More
SecurityCommentary
SecurityNews
Top House Republican Proposes Aggressive Plan to Help Trump Fight Terrorism
Speaking at a military base in Tampa on Tuesday, President Barack Obama touted his legacy as commander-in-chief, making the case that “no foreign terrorist organization… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Obama’s Terrorism Claim Hides an Inconvenient Truth
On Tuesday, President Barack Obama stated that “Over [the] last eight years, no foreign terrorist organization has successfully planned and executed an attack on our… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Ohio State Attack Sheds Light on Somali Community’s Struggle With Terrorism
There is still much we do not know about Abdul Razak Ali Artan, the young man who injured 11 people in a car-and-knife attack at Ohio… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Attack at Ohio State Brings US Terror Plots, Attacks to 93 Since 9/11
This week, terror struck American soil once again—this time on a university campus. On the morning of Nov. 28, Abdul Razak Ali Artan drove a… Read More
SecurityNews
7 Things to Know About Trump’s Pick to Lead CIA
President-elect Donald Trump has selected a conservative congressman, Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kan., as his Central Intelligence Agency director. Pompeo, elected to Congress in the tea… Read More
InternationalNews
The Top Foreign Conflicts Trump Will Inherit
When Donald Trump becomes president in January he will inherit challenges beyond America’s borders. Trump ran a campaign opposing the internationalism promoted by predecessors from… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Islamist Extremism Threatens Hindus, Pro-Western Liberals in Bangladesh
Last Friday, crowds of Muslims attacked Hindu temples in Nasirnagar and surrounding areas, provoked by a picture posted on Facebook deemed insulting to the Muslim… Read More
SecurityCommentary
SecurityCommentary
US Security Benefits When Japan, South Korea Share Intelligence
South Korea recently announced it would restart negotiations with Japan for a military and intelligence sharing agreement. Washington should encourage this growing security cooperation. Moon… Read More
SecurityCommentary
What the US Needs to Do About Russia’s Cyberattacks
The U.S. finally is ramping up its response to Russian cyberattacks. Good. The bad news is our response shows how ill thought-out both our strategy… Read More
InternationalNews
How Republicans Plan to Shape the Next President’s Iran Policy
Republican opponents of the Iran nuclear deal have been stymied in their ability to shape U.S. policy with America’s longtime adversary in the Middle East…. Read More
SecurityCommentary
Expedited Cargo Screening a Boon to Shippers and Security
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Agency has recently expanded its expedited clearance program for oceangoing freight, the Advanced Qualified Unloading Approval (AQUA Lane)… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Islamist Terrorist Attacks and Plots Against the US Homeland Rise to 92
The Heritage Foundation is adding to our terror plot timeline as the past several weeks have seen two successful attacks and one plot foiled by… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Rising Concerns as the Battle Begins to Defeat ISIS in Mosul
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
SecurityCommentary
EU Report Targets British Media for Telling the Truth About Radical Islamic Terrorism
As Britain starts extricating itself from the European Union, bureaucrats in Brussels continue to hand ammunition to Brexit supporters. Last week, the European Commission against… Read More
SecurityNews
How the British Government Tries to Stop Youth From Becoming Terrorists
Rashad Ali once belonged to an Islamic extremist group, but he now spends his days helping the British government prevent others from becoming radicalized. His… Read More
SocietyCommentary
My Bit Part in Presidential Elections and the Rush to Citizenship
Reports that the Obama administration has gone into overdrive to process applicants for U.S. citizenship prior to the presidential election have a familiar ring. Twenty… Read More
SecurityCommentary
When Bureaucrats Edit the Facts of Islamist Terrorism to Fit Obama’s Narrative
In the early morning hours of June 12, an armed terrorist named Omar Mateen opened fire in a nightclub in Orlando, Florida. The next morning,… Read More
SecurityCommentary
What’s Next for Arrested Ahmad Khan Rahami
Working with the FBI and other federal counterparts, police in New Jersey have located and taken into custody Ahmad Khan Rahami, the primary suspect in… Read More
SecurityCommentary
New York Bombing May Be Another Terrorist Attack Inspired by al-Qaeda’s Anwar al-Awlaki
New York City and New Jersey dodged a bullet on Saturday. The terrorist bombings allegedly perpetrated by Ahmad Khan Rahami, a 28-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen… Read More
SecurityNews
Inspired Attacks Show Strength of Islamic State, Experts Say
After the terrorist attacks this weekend, President Barack Obama acknowledged a link between the central Islamic State and lone bad actors, even as the administration… Read More
SecurityNews
White House: US Is in a ‘Narrative Fight’ With ISIS
The U.S. is in a fight with the Islamic State, but according to the White House it is a fight of words, not arms. “When… Read More
SecurityAnalysis
Weekend Attacks Across US Show Need for Renewed Vigilance
A series of bombings in New Jersey and New York City, along with a mass stabbing at a mall outside Minneapolis, have many Americans rightly… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Boeing Deal With Terrorist Iran Shadows Hill Fight on Export-Import Bank
Let’s put two and two together, shall we? For more than a year now, the U.S. Export-Import Bank has been limited to financing export deals… Read More
