Growing Foreign Threats to the U.S.
The American people are accustomed to believing their country is so strong, it could never be taken over by another country. Yet, a series of policy mistakes and a weakness … Read More
Tag: National Security
Issues involving the armed services and foreign threats to the nation.
Whatever Happened to the Rules-Based World Order?
During the twentieth century, World War II was one of those historical events —- like the Black Plague in the Middle Ages — that seemed to come close to destroying … Read More
American Manichaeism
For a very long time, American foreign policy has wrestled with the conflict between our ideals and a realistic response toward our adversaries. This is the problem of American Manichaeism. … Read More
Time Is Not The Friend of Vladimir Putin — Nor of Xi Jinping
At a time when Russia is conquering Ukraine, and threatening the Baltic states (Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia) and Poland), despair for our own security is all too easy. This is … Read More
Why Has the U.S. Lost Almost All Major Wars Since World War II?
But once war is forced upon us, there is no other alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War’s very object is victory, … Read More
Is China’s Imperialist Threat to the West Growing or Weakening?
NOTE: This post was updated on April 16, 2020. The explosion of the COVID-19 coronavirus on the international scene emphasizes yet again that China has no intention of merely coexisting … Read More
Trade War and Cold War With China
The much feared trade war with China is the least of the problems we have with that great nation. The People’s Republic of China appears to be hardwired to seek … Read More
What Comes Next With Iran After the JCPOA?
President Trump announcing the U.S. pullout from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on May 8, 2018. YouTube / CBC News Now that President Donald Trump has decided to … Read More
Is Trump Killing the Liberal World Order?
A NATO naval fleet including warships from five nations. In four descending columns, from left to right: ITS Maestrale (F 570), De Grasse (D 612); USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74), … Read More
What Democrats Are Ignoring About Russia
Vladimir Putin, President (for life?) of the Russian Federation DailyPnut.com While Democrats continue to obsess over imaginary connections between Donald Trump and the Russian Federation, they seem to pay little … Read More
Past US Weakness Creates Heightened Tensions With China and North Korea
Launch of a North Korean Taepodong 2 ICBM MissileThreat.csis.org Just this Tuesday, China’s minion North Korea claimed to have made its first fully successful test launch of an Intercontinental Ballistic … Read More
The Real “Colluders” With Russia
Progressive conspiracy theorists. (c) Can Stock Photo / Frostie Even now, despite the lack of any shred of evidence, Democrats and their media allies are pushing the meme that Donald … Read More
U.S. Railgun Systems Proliferate
Railgun projectile bursting through a metal plate in a Navy test system. The projectile is the dark metal bar in the center-right of the image. Image courtesy of the Office … Read More
How Should the U.S. React to Foreign Challenges?
Aspects of U.S. Foreign Relations Top (Left to Right): U.S. Army soldiers in Ramadi, August 2006 Wikimedia Commons / Air Force Tech Sgt. Jeremy T. Lock Container ship from … Read More
The U.S. Interactions With Other Nations
United Nations Headquarters in New York City Wikimedia Commons / Neptuul Very little divides American citizens more than questions about how the U.S. should interact with other nations. This has always … Read More
The Trump Era Begins
President Donald J. Trump delivering his inaugural address, January 20, 2017 Screenshot of ABC News broadcast Uncompromising. That was the major tone of Donald Trump’s inaugural address on the west … Read More
A Nervous Face-off Against Chinese Imperialism
Naval vessel of the the People’s Liberation Army Navy. Center for Security Policy In the United States over the past eight years, China has found its perfect enemy, more concerned … Read More
Iran Stretches Its Offensive Cyber Muscles
The flags of bitter enemies: Iran left, Saudi Arabia right Wikimedia Commons Sometime in the middle of this last November, someone, almost certainly the Islamic Republic of Iran, conducted destructive … Read More
The Analysis of Reality
A supernova about to blow: Wolf-Rayet star WR 124, 15,000 light years from Earth Wikimedia Commons / NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Following last Tuesday’s elections, the recriminations and accusations are … Read More
The Ruins of Obama’s Catastrophic Foreign Policy
President Obama meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss Syria and ISIS, September 29, 2015 Wikimedia Commons/Kremlin.ru No American president in my lifetime has had a foreign policy that … Read More
Clinton and Trump on Foreign Policy
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton take the stage at the third and final Presidential debate. The differences between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton on foreign policy appear to be more … Read More
Russia Stable in the Short Term; The Long Term Is Something Else
Russia and its western “Near Abroad” Map courtesy of Google Maps Russia is becoming a major danger to the rest of the world on a par with ISIS because of their “Russian … Read More
How Is the Weather Like a Country’s Economy?
Hurricane Isabel, a category 5 hurricane, seen from the International Space Station in September 2003. This deadly storm had many of the same system characteristics in the planet’s weather that … Read More
Is Putin Secure?
The headquarters for the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) at Lubyanka Square in Moscow in the same building that used to be the HQ of the KGB. Wikimedia Commons/NVO There … Read More
Iran: Existential Enemy of the West (among others)
On top, Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran, meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on January 23, 2016. On bottom, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani meeting with Russian President Vladimir … Read More
Putin’s Purges
Der Russische Führer, Vladimir Putin Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Kremlin.ru ANDERS ÅSLUND has become an indispensable analyst of that “riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma”, as Sir Winston Churchill … Read More
Probability of War with China Increasing?
People’s Liberation Army Navy sailors at the Qingdao, North Sea Fleet headquarters parading in 2000 for a visiting U.S. Navy delegation. Wikimedia Commons/Jiang The probability of war with the People’s … Read More
The Fermenting of the West’s Discontents: Crisis of Ideology
Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. The three witches in Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Act 4, scene 1 Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Johann Heinrich Füssli 1783 The Western World’s political … Read More
The GOP’s Better Way
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wi) taking over the House Speakership from Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) Wikimedia Commons/Office of Speaker Paul D. Ryan On a lot of issues Donald Trump has been … Read More