Ted Galen Carpenter was a senior fellow for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute. Carpenter served as Cato’s director of foreign policy studies from 1986 to 1995 and as vice president for defense and foreign policy studies from 1995 to 2011.
A new analysis argues the true beneficiaries of Trump's Iran war were America's great-power rivals. Russia reportedly fed Iran targeting data on U.S. bases...
Western media is celebrating Ukraine's burning-refinery strikes as proof the war has turned. This contrarian analysis urges caution: we heard the same after "Russia's...
Summary and Key Points: Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s landslide victory in the February 2026 elections has granted her a powerful two-thirds majority, cementing a...
Key Points and Summary – Dr. Ted Galen Carpenter argues the Trump administration is inflating Venezuela into a major U.S. security threat to justify...
In April and again last month, Kim Yo-Jong, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un’s sister and influential policy adviser, demanded that President Trump explicitly acknowledge...