The United States Air Force announced in late January that it was more than tripling the authorized spending ceiling for its Next Generation Adaptive...
Just over a week before the U.S. elections, Russian President Vladimir Putin may deliver a knockout blow to U.S. influence and prestige in the Caucasus and...
Against the backdrop of African conflict, Liberia’s two turn-of-the-century wars were fierce, replete with forced impressment of child soldiers, torture, rape, and summary executions....
After North Korea, Eritrea is the world’s most repressive and totalitarian country. Independence leader Isaias Afwerki rules with an iron fist. He rejects elections,...
The Iranian government defaulted to its influence operations playbook in the aftermath of the September 17, 2024, systematic explosion of Hezbollah pagers, presumably enabled...
The conflicts raging in Ukraine and Gaza rightly dominate international headlines and show no sign of ending anytime soon. It is even more essential,...
Is “Operation Below the Belt” the End of Phones and Computers on Airplanes?: Earlier today, some entity—presumably Israel—caused 3,000 pagers used by Hezbollah to...
In over four decades of serving as an ambassador, Foreign Service Officer, and staffer in public and private international service organizations, I have lived...
Crises often define presidential legacies. Jimmy Carter had the Iran hostage crisis, Bill Clinton the Balkans, George W. Bush the September 11 terror attacks,...
Planned Withdrawal from Iraq is Gift to Iran, Islamic State: Iraqi Defense Minister Thabit al-Abbasi has said then United States and Iraq have reached...