Military & Foreign Policy

At the invitation of the Iraqi regime, the United States recently agreed to multi-lateral talks with Iran and Syria aimed at breaking the diplomatic impasse between Iran and the United Nations over Tehran’s nuclear program. Negotiation supporters point to recent … Continue reading

Guest Commentary The Australian government wants America to stick around in Iraq.  So do the Turkish and Egyptian governments.  Some Americans obviously agree with them on this particular issue, but there’s a larger point at stake. It’s easy for U.S. … Continue reading

Last fall I visited Dearborn, Mich., to attend a high school class reunion. I arrived early enough to drive around my old neighborhood. To my surprise, it had become almost totally an Arab population. Every business I passed displayed Arab-English … Continue reading

Poor ISG!  While its members completed their parade across assorted political platforms during the last month of 2006, their pontifications died faster than a flock of houseflies on a sun-baked window ledge, and with about as much dignity.  It’s not … Continue reading

Guest Commentary Saddam Hussein richly deserved his execution, but Iraq is no less a strategic disaster for America because of it.  It will be years, if not decades, until the world overcomes all of the consequences of George W. Bush’s … Continue reading

One of the most notable scenes in Rocky One followed Apollo Creed’s reaction to a lightning punch that sent him reeling to the canvas, his glazed eyes struggling to catch the number of the locomotive that just smashed into his … Continue reading

As bad news from Iraq  assaults viewers with machine gun bursts of gloom every day, predictions about consequences of an American defeat range from the deadly serious to the catastrophic. The elephant-in-the-living-room analogy of course is Vietnam, with its hideous … Continue reading

“If the trumpet does not sound a clear call, who will get ready for battle?”I Corinthians 14:8 Five years ago 19 Islamist Jihadists murdered nearly 3,000 Americans in New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania.  In carrying out their “martyrdom missions,” … Continue reading

The law of unintended consequences undoubtedly will be put on bold display over the course of the coming months, or most certainly over the next few years. The reason has to do with the likely ripple effects of North Korea’s … Continue reading

For five months in 1945, 66 of Japan’s largest cities were laid waste by fleets of B29 Superfortresses, resulting in 8 million homeless and over 2 million casualties (killed and maimed). The commander who ordered this devastation was General Curtis … Continue reading

Guest Commentary Editor’s Note: This article first appeared in the Los Angeles Times and has been reprinted with the author’s permission.  A. Yasmine Rassam is director of international policy at the Independent Women’s Forum. Rassam participated in the April 5-6, … Continue reading

A few Jewish organizations, and several Christian radio and television broadcasts, are calling for thousands of their own sympathizers to sign its “Petition to Support Israel.” I share their call for the support of Israel’s democracy, especially at this time … Continue reading

The scale of violence in warfare inevitably rises to meet the level of objectives. During World War II, Germany’s strategic objectives included dominating Eurasia from the Baltic to the Mediterranean and from the English Channel to the Urals along with … Continue reading

When Hamas terrorists tunneled from Gaza into southern Israel, killed two Israeli soldiers and abducted Corporal Galid Shalit, that probably put the nail in the coffin of any prospect for a peaceful settlement between Israel and the Hamas-controlled Palestinian Authority. … Continue reading