Missteps in Gaza: Obama’s Misguided Cease-fire
by Dr. Laurie Ann Mylroie President Obama’s handling of the Gaza conflict marks a sharp break with his attitude toward other Middle East conflicts, as well as the policies of previous…
The Missiles of July
by Peter Huessy In the last month, Hamas has now launched over 2000 rockets at Israel with Tel Aviv shooting down roughly 90% of those aimed at Israeli population centers.…
An Iron Dome for America?
What Americans should learn from Israel’s missile-defense system by Rebeccah Heinrichs The Israeli missile-defense system known as Iron Dome once again finds itself in the international spotlight, causing many Americans…
Coalition Letter Supporting Fully Funding Missile Defense
TO: Sen. Carl Levin, Chairman, Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen. John McCain, Ranking Member, Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen. Dick Durbin, Chairman, Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, Sen. Thad Cochran, Chairman, Senate Appropriations…
Missile “Diplomacy”
U.S. Not Connecting the Dots by Peter Huessy There is presently concern that programs to prevent short- and medium-range ballistic missiles from reaching Europe will be delayed under pressure to make…
Weak, Timid and Detached
by Clark S. Judge At a political event in Wilmington, Delaware, on Thursday, President Obama devoted only 40 seconds to the shooting down of the Malaysian airline, his first statement…
Russia’s Moral Nihilism
by Dr. Miklos K. Radvanyi In the book entitled “The Documentary History of the Roots of the German Hanseatic Cities” it is stated that already in the 14th century…
Soviet Union Redux
All the currently known evidence points to the culprits being the very forces that Russian President Putin has armed, trained, and encouraged. by Dr. Miklos K. Radvanyi Malaysian Airlines flight…
Amidst the Relentless Powers of Implacable Hatred and Moral Conduct
by Dr. Miklos K. Radvanyi Once again the Middle East has descended into a vicious circle of simultaneous human tragedies. The essence of this often repeated situation had been the…
NATO After Ukraine: Military Modernization in Europe
by Peter Huessy NATO faces a challenge to modernize and sustain its nuclear posture and missile defense deployments in Europe at a time of declining defense budgets on the one…
How America Can Help To Stop the War in Gaza
To bring about real peace, drop the false narrative of moral equivalency and focus on the real culprits. by Liel Leibovitz Here’s a bit of wisdom that cannot be repeated often…
The Diplomacy of Missile Defense
by Peter Huessy The long thirty one year debate over missile defenses for the United States begun with the President Reagan announcement of the strategic defense initiative in March 1983…
Obama is leaving America weaker on the world stage than Carter did
by James Kirchick It’s now official: On foreign policy, Barack Obama is worse than Jimmy Carter. For decades, Carter’s presidency was synonymous with weakness on the world stage. The late…
Nigeria: Boko Haram, as bad as it is, is not the real problem
by Dr. Lawrence A. Franklin Despite its string of spectacular atrocities, Boko Haram is but a superficial byproduct of the deeply flawed Nigerian state. Nigeria is ridden with fatal fissures that…