Afghanistan has been back in the news lately, but most commentators are missing the big picture. In recent weeks there has been a raft of…
I spent the last week of August in South Korea, attending a conference on security studies sponsored by the Korea National Defense…
Back in February, U.S. President Donald Trump declared that the Islamic State was “100 percent” defeated and took full credit for the…
For the first time in its history, NATO does not have a strong, principled American leader to guide it.
Along with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt is often hailed as one of the United States’ greatest presidents.…
For many, like me, who worked on policy toward Afghanistan for years, recent leaks about an impending agreement between the U.S. and the…
Aug. 5, 2025: In a televised address to the nation, U.S. President Gavin Newsom announced that he had given Brazil a one-week ultimatum to…
Commentators of many stripes increasingly refer to the deteriorating relationship between the United States and China as a new “cold war.”…
Americans have repeatedly expressed their frustration with the overly ambitious and mostly failed strategy of liberal hegemony that has…
Dear President Donald Trump: We’ve never met, and given that you’re not much of a reader, I doubt you even know who I am. But maybe—just…