By: John C. Wohlstetter, Senior Fellow
In a March 2020 article for The American Spectator, “Event Tectonics: Quake, Shake, Bake & Fake,” I assessed the prospective impact — large — of COVID-19 and compared it in salience to prior events. Those events I divided into four categories:
By: Adelle Nazarian, Media Fellow and Dr. Seyed Hossein Lotfizadeh
An impressive array of congressional letters have been pulling the Biden administration in opposite directions regarding the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (“Iran deal" for short) negotiated under former President Barack Obama over a span of days. While the heated atmosphere is a clear indication of the perils of whatever path the Biden administration opts to pursue, one would hope that cooler heads prevail at end of the day given the stakes.
By: Robert Roos MEP, Honorary Distinguished Fellow
Brussels (Brussels Morning) ‘Sofagate’ now seems a distant memory. A few weeks later, however, now that the dust has settled, it is very important to reflect long and hard on the issues raised and on the many lessons to be learned in parliament from this diplomatic spat.
Ms von der Leyen indicated that, during her visit to Ankara, she had felt ‘hurt’ and ‘abandoned’ and accused Turkish President Erdoğan of subjecting her to sexist treatment by failing to provide a chair for her as he had for Charles Michel.
By: Adelle Nazarian, Media Fellow
The Islamic Republic of Iran’s (IRI) gruesome and likely intentional shooting down of a Ukrainian airliner with Canadian passengers on board on January 8, 2020, was recently condemned by Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice as a “shameful” act of terrorism.
Now, it is time for the Biden administration to do the same.
A D-Day remembrance by Senior Fellow John C. Wohlstetter as told to him by his ancestor, William Friedman, plus his own pilgrimage to the beaches of Normandy. (This article first appeared in the American Spectator magazine May 28, 2018)
By: John C. Wohlstetter, Senior Fellow
For decades, terrorists have relied on three weapons to fight the West: our technology, our media, and our laws and associated values.
By: Geoffrey Van Orden
Since 1948, Israel has had to fight for its existence in at least four major conventional wars, defending its small and vulnerable territory, half the size of Denmark, while surrounded by hostile neighbours. In living memory of the horrors of the Holocaust, suffering years of terrorism, Israelis have every right to feel under threat and defend themselves. Above all, Israel seeks recognition by Palestinians of its right to exist as an essentially Jewish state if progress is to be made in the creation of a viable and internationally acceptable Palestinian state. The Hamas leaders that in June 2007 seized from the Palestine Authority de facto control of Gaza, vacated by Israel in 2005, fundamentally oppose this.
By: Matthew R.J. Brodsky, Senior Fellow
America’s foreign-policy establishment and peace-process industry are having a field day: The latest round of fighting between Israel and the terror group Hamas, they insist, has sounded the death knell for the Abraham Accords, the Trump-brokered peace treaties between the Jewish state and several Muslim nations.
By: Geoffrey Van Orden CBE, Distinguished Fellow
In international relations, and in politics more widely, perception is often more significant than reality. In many overseas countries, Donald Trump was widely seen as an unsuitable, even dangerous, President - unpredictable and narcissistic, acting on instinct and unnerving friend and foe alike. Yet nearly half of Americans continued to vote for Donald Trump.
In a Newsweek essay published Thursday, Matthew Brodsky, former adviser to the Trump administration’s Middle East peace team, blasted the left, claiming it seeks to banish all dissent, and specifically criticized recent calls for the canceling of Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
By: Matthew R.J. Brodsky, Senior Fellow
Progressives today demand a profound remaking of the country. In their regressive Orwellian worldview, anti-Americanism is the new patriotism. In their version of American democracy, big tech thought police substitute for the real police now being defunded in communities across America. A free corporate media, presenting multiple sides of an issue and allowing for an open exchange of ideas on opinion pages, has given way to mob- and media-approved narratives and calls to silence and banish all dissent to the outer rim.
By: John C. Wohlstetter, Senior Fellow
A “fundamental transformation” of America is taking place before our very eyes.
By: Geoffrey Van Orden CBE, Distinguished Fellow
By providing a more coherent, consistent, active, and reliable approach, stability can be fostered in the region, writes former MEP Geoffrey Van Orden.
By: Matthew R.J. Brodsky, Senior Fellow
America's genuine adversaries will likely view the Biden administration's national security 'guidance' with a mixture of relief, laughter, and incredulity.
By: Neil W. McCabe, Media Fellow
The founder and president of the Washington-based Gold Institute for International Strategies told the Star News Network that President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s foreign policy is doomed to fail, because unlike President Donald J. Trump, Biden treats the world as an extension of Washington’s Swamp.
By: John Milton Peterson, Contributing Analyst
An initial analysis of the massive explosion in downtown Nashville, provided by a former U.S. Army Special Forces soldier and government analyst who specialized in terrorist attacks and IEDs - Improvised Explosive Devices.
By: Eli M. Gold, President
I recently had the opportunity to participate in a seminar in South Korea for future leaders regarding the role and importance of soft power, and the influence that it provides a country globally. No longer are soldiers, tanks and guns needed to fight a war, but other forms of influence known as soft power can have a greater impact with less physical destruction.
By: Geoffrey Van Orden, CBE, Distinguished Fellow
Changes in our strategic environment are taking place faster than anticipated and require an urgent response and a shift in approach. As a consequence, defence strategy and spending is being reviewed across many of the democracies after years of complacency.
By: Geoffrey Van Orden CBE, Distinguished Fellow
Changes in our strategic environment are taking place faster than anticipated and require urgent response and a shift in approach. As a consequence, defence strategy and spending is being reviewed across many of the democracies after years of complacency.
By: Nahro Zagros, Senior Fellow
Israel-UAE agreement to normalize their relations is a historical peace accord in the region.
By: Geoffrey Van Orden CBE, Distinguished Fellow
By: Derk Jan Eppink, Honorary Distinguished Fellow
The policy of Iran is bringing Sunni countries together with Israel. KSA has relations though not a diplomatic status, as far as I know. The developments with UAE, followed by Oman and Bahrein broaden the network. Qatar will be more reflectant, given its Shia majority, if I am right.
By: Geoffrey Van Orden CBE, Distinguished Fellow
The Indians, fast emerging as a bulwark against Chinese aggression, offer enormous opportunities in a deeper partnership.
If China has been trying to push its advantage during the Covid-19 pandemic, maybe it should be more modest as it now faces a backlash from Western countries seeking to unravel Chinese involvement in their economies, infrastructure and communications. And more attention should be paid to India, a friendly democracy and leading Commonwealth nation whose population is at least as big as China’s and which is projected to become the world’s third largest economy by 2030.
By: Shana Forta, VP of Operations
What is intrinsically wrong with some people that want to throw away their heritage, history, the good and the bad, their rights and their privileges? What is it about their dignity, their moral servitude, and the courage to stand up for their convictions, that causes a person to try and fade into obscurity, a population to fade away from the spotlight and countries to downplay their greatness?
By: Geoffrey Van Orden CBE, Distinguished Fellow
Back in the late 1940s and early 1950s, before the European Union was invented, the United States was keen on European integration to hasten economic recovery, provide a market for its goods and better defend against the growing Soviet threat.
By: Susan Yoshihara, Senior Fellow
The purpose of appointing inspectors general is to ensure no one is above the law. Instead of guarding this public trust, State Department IG Steve Linick weaponized it.
By: Neil W. McCabe, Senior Fellow
The Cambridge University academic portrayed in the mainstream media as retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn’s Russian mistress and spy recruiter caught in the web of fake news and the Russian Collusion Hoax.
By: Geoffrey Van Orden CBE, Distinguished Fellow
In early April, the imagination of the British people was captured by the efforts of a 99-year old British Armyveteranwho had set out to walk around his house 100 times before his 100thBirthday on 30 April. His aim wasto raise £1,000($1200)for the BritishNational Health Service. Donations poured in, he became a national celebrity, and by1 May he had raised the astonishing amount of £33 million ($41 million)!
By: Adelle Nazarian, Media Fellow
Fourteen Republicans in the House Oversight and Reform Committee sent a warning letter to World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus expressing grave concerns about his questionable reaction to what they called the Chinese government’s role in exacerbating the COVID-19 pandemic, including its large-scale propaganda campaign...
By: Geoffrey Van Orden CBE, Distinguished Fellow
The security and defence policies of Britain and the other Western democracies are approaching a strategic crossroad. NATO has launched a “reflection process” to strengthen its political dimension...
By: Yvonne Marie Antonoglou, Senior Fellow
Recently, the World Health Organization and other sensitive souls have instructed the media (and the West in general) to stop referring to the new strain of coronavirus as the “Wuhan” or “Chinese” flu because of the racist connotations that this may entail.
By: Shana Forta, VP of Operation
Everyone has their own favorite part of the Superbowl.
By: Ehud Elam, Senior Fellow
The Iranian regime is at a low point. This evil empire of the Middle East is in trouble due to several reasons, both political and economic.
By: Geoffrey Van Orden CBE, Distinguished Fellow
If we reject the idea of a state called Europe, it is right that we should discourage the construction of its military arm.
By: Saul Montes-Bradley II, VP of Communications
How an Islamist Organization Set Up a Top Member of the Trump Administration With The Complicity of a Venal Press and Corrupt Politicians.
By: Eli M. Gold, President
With our Mid-East policy in disarray, China and Russia have not missed a beat and are stepping in to fill the gaps. It is clear the intention of their advances in technological research and development (R&D), military and otherwise, is to surpass the U.S.’s global distribution and ultimately become the dominant player in this area.
By: Yvonne Marie Antonoglou, Senior Fellow
Looking back on the past 15 years, there is little doubt that the 9/11 attacks profoundly altered the landscape of international security.
