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Trump Takes a Solid Step Toward Peace in Ukraine Feb. 19, 2025
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth traveled to Belgium last week to participate in the Ukraine Defense C... Read More
Deep State and Big Debt: America's Self-Inflicted Strategic Threat Feb. 19, 2025
The political hacks opposing the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are laughable — un... Read More
Diego Garcia: The American Nowhere Vexing China And Iran Feb. 12, 2025
The island is named Diego Garcia, the biggest little island in the Indian Ocean's isolated Chagos Ar... Read More
New Gaza as Condos, Not Shell Holes Feb. 05, 2025
The Great 21st-Century Creative Strategic Thinker (Donald Trump, aka, The Great Disruptor) wants to ... Read More
21st-Century 'Star Wars': Trump's Huge Iron Dome Jan. 29, 2025
President Donald Trump's Jan. 27 strategic defense executive order includes this hard-nosed truth ab... Read More
Protecting the Panama Canal -- and Waterfowl Jan. 22, 2025
Post-inauguration President Donald Trump repeated his Jan. 7 declaration that the U.S. should buy Gr... Read More
Israel Makes a Deal With the Actual Devil Jan. 17, 2025
Only hours after a possible ceasefire deal was announced between Israel and Hamas, Khalil al Hayya, ... Read More
California Burning: Accident, Terror or Sabotage? Jan. 15, 2025
The Japanese called their intercontinental weapons "fusen bakudan" — trans-Pacific balloon-del... Read More
Strategic Challenges 2025: Petrarch, Nukes, Anarchy and Debt Jan. 01, 2025
In January 2022, I wrote my first formal annual Strategic Challenges column — a quick assessme... Read More
The Next Pearl Harbor: Close-In Drone Swarm Attacks Launched From US Soil? Dec. 25, 2024
The Great Drone Hysteria first afflicted New Jersey and New York — with maybes from Maryland a... Read More
2024's Biggest News Story: Trump Survives Assassination To Win Most Significant US Election Since 1980 Dec. 18, 2024
On July 13, 2024, as he turned to consult a chart, an assassin's bullet grazed the presidential cand... Read More
Will Post-Assad Syria Acquire a Neo-Ottoman Turkish Yoke? Dec. 11, 2024
In late summer 2012, Syrian Prime Minister Riyad Hijab denounced his boss, dictator Bashar al-Assad,... Read More
2024 Repeats 1914: China's Baltic Sea Cable-Cutters Reprise WWI 'Hacking' Attacks Dec. 04, 2024
During its Baltic Sea transit, the Chinese merchant ship Yi Peng 3 dropped an anchor — or at l... Read More
Women Shouldn't Be in Combat Roles Dec. 03, 2024
It's amazing how controversial common sense is these days. Look at the reaction to Pete Hegseth's co... Read More
Pete Hegseth's Pentagon Fix-It List Nov. 20, 2024
Pete Hegseth has a very fine mind — a mind strategically informed by a superb military combat ... Read More
Honoring Our Heroes Nov. 11, 2024
Dear Readers: Wishing you a Happy Veterans Day. Please find below some enjoyable quotes to celebrate... Read More
National Security Considerations Demand Exceptions Be Made Oct. 30, 2024
In a recent post discussing shifting U.S. domestic political views, John Hinderaker of Powerlineblog... Read More
Defended Borders Fundamental To US National Defense Oct. 23, 2024
It's simple, and everybody with common sense gets it. A national border isn't a line on a map. A bor... Read More
Heartfelt Responses From Veterans Oct. 20, 2024
Dear Readers: I was so touched by all of the feedback from military families. Thank you for your ser... Read More
Israel Needs Victory, Not a Ceasefire Oct. 08, 2024
A ceasefire may temporarily stop fighting, but it's overwhelming military victory that brings the po... Read More
