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…
Missile Defense Agency Successfully Destroys Target in Flight with Ground-Based Midcourse Defense System
June 27, 2014, Washington, D.C. – On June 22nd, the Missile Defense Agency and a high tech industry team that designed and built the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system conducted a…
Russia Test Fires Six New Air-Launched Cruise Missiles
Putin orders military exercises amid new Ukraine tensions by Bill Gertz Russian strategic air forces fired six new, precision-strike cruise missiles in test launches Friday amid new tensions between Moscow…
Iraq: A Chaotic Irony of History
by Dr. Miklos K. Radvanyi The plight of Iraq is a true political disaster and a real human catastrophe. The fatal error of all parties involved in the the ongoing…
Obama Fiddles While Iraq Burns
The president is focused on leaving Iraq, no matter the cost to freedom and security. by Peter Roff While Iraq burns to the ground – a major international problem –…
The Missile Defense Deniers
by Peter Huessy On Sunday June 22, high over the Pacific Ocean, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA), the U.S. Air Force 30th Space Wing, the Joint Functional Component Command,…
Russia Cuts Natural Gas Supply to Ukraine
by Oren Dorell Russia’s cutoff of natural gas supplies to Ukraine on Monday is a reminder that Ukraine is still highly dependent on its powerful neighbor. “They’re going to need the…
Obama Tenure Marked by Foreign Policy Debacles
When President Obama took the oath of office in January 2009, he became the leader of the world’s greatest military power, and the nation that more than any other in…
Pros and Cons of Drone Strikes in Iraq
by Patrick Tucker On Friday, President Barack Obama ruled out sending U.S. troops back into Iraq to fight the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, or ISIS, fighters as they take…