The Other North Korean Threat
by Travis Korson • Townhall Over the last few days, North Korean actions that ultimately scuttled the release of Sony Picture Entertainment’s release of “The Interview” have dominated…
The Fear of the Mullahs and Obama’s Senseless Iranian Policy
by Dr. Miklos K. Radvanyi Like all theocracies throughout history, Ruhollah Mostafavi Musavi Khomeini’s doctrine of Velayat-i-Faghih, the absolute power of guardianship of divinely qualified Jurists over all Muslims, attempted…
How to fight the lone wolf
by Charles Krauthammer • Washington Post The lone wolf is the new nightmare, dramatized and amplified this week by the hostage-taking attack in Sydney. But there are two kinds of…
Taliban and ISIS sink to ever newer levels of atrocities
The extremists are copying Islamic State’s terror strategy By H.D.S. Greenway • The Boston Globe It is a sad fact of modern life that homicidally inclined extremists feel they…
A Travesty of a Report
by Charles Krauthammer • Washington Post The report by Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee regarding CIA interrogation essentially accuses the agency under George W. Bush…
A partisan report for the dustbin
by John Yoo • Daily News The release of a Senate report on Bush-era interrogation policies could have prompted an informed, responsible debate over intelligence and the war on…
Diplomacy Failed in Iran: Fund Missile Defense
by George Landrith • Townhall The US and several other nations have been in “talks” in hopes of negotiating with Iran to stop its nuclear…
Missile Defense Priorities for 2015
by Travis Korson, Senior Fellow Introduction As Congress debates the 2015 Defense Appropriations bill, it is important that members fully fund key components of a layered Ballistic Missile Defense System…
The Gathering Storm in Iran
by Peter Huessy The United States and its allies will soon hear whether –once again—Iran will end its nuclear weapons search, masquerading now as a nuclear energy program. What…
Terrorism Risk Insurance Makes Sense
by Peter Roff In just a few short weeks control of the United States Senate floor will pass from the Democrats to the Republicans. This single fact means the political…
What? Me Worry?
Why nuclear deterrent modernization is critical to our longterm security. by Peter Huessy The newest from the Washington Post’s Walter Pincus (“Old Nukes and Old Thinking”, The Washington Post, November…
Terrorism insurance protects American prosperity into the future
by Peter Roff • The Hill In just a few weeks control of the United States Senate floor passes from the Democrats to the Republicans. Because…
Late to the Challenge: Diminishing American Leadership in the Age of Terror
by Peter Huessy (An address to the Precision Strike Association and the National Defense Industrial Association, at the Johns Hopkins University, October 21, 2014) INTRODUCTION: A year ago, in trying…
Encircling Baghdad: The Country that Became a City-State
by Dr. Larry Franklin ISIS-led anti-government Sunni Islam coalition troops have virtually surrounded Baghdad. Iraq’s largest province, al-Anbar, is almost totally occupied by anti-regime forces. Only a portion of Fallujah…
Hiding Unilateral Disarmament Objectives
by Peter Huessy • Gatestone What the Ploughshares Fund is actually doing with its proposed budget cuts, it appears, is trying to camouflage the objectives of…