On The Free Press, Simon Sebag Montefiore claims migrant care threatens Western stability, ignoring the hard labor sustaining the comfortable nations he seeks to defend.
By Alma Cordero ·
The capture of Perim Island is not a tactical skirmish; it is a systemic failure of deterrence.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
The twenty-fifth anniversary of September 11 is arriving not with a quiet prayer, but with a federal bulletin and a ledger of lies.
By Elena Rossi ·
The IRGC just threw a punch and missed, and the bureaucrats in Washington are treating it like a non-event.
By Grant Colby ·
There is a specific kind of arrogance that comes from sitting in a climate-controlled room in D.C., drawing lines on a map and calling it "strategy," while people halfway across…
By Ruth Behrens ·
President Donald Trump is attempting to play the role of the grand architect, and he is doing so with the same appetite for systemic overhaul that defined the Post-World War II Settlement.
By Adele Rutherford ·
When you’re on the flight line, you don’t want the enemy knowing your fuel state, your payload, or where your blind spots are.
By Grant Colby ·
The notion that America remains the indispensable guarantor of stability in the Middle East—a comforting fiction sold to both Congressmen and foreign capitals alike—is finally…
By Emilio Quesada ·
I was growing up in Newell, Iowa, where the biggest political drama we ever saw involved whether the county could afford to fix the potholes on Main Street before harvest.
By Ruth Behrens ·
The operational tempo required to maintain sustained power projection in contested waters is staggering, yet the return home—the supposed moment of respite—is proving to be another failure point.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
The dismissal of Erik Slavin, editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes, alongside publisher Max Lederer and reporter Lara Korte, is not a mere personnel dispute; it is the visible…
By Klaus Berger ·
The current geopolitical theater surrounding Iran and the Strait of Hormuz reads like an exercise in pure, unconstrained rhetoric.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
When you are running a seed dealership, or keeping the books for a struggling Main Street hardware store, you understand that every disruption has a cost—a concrete number in…
By Ruth Behrens ·
The mechanisms of modern conflict policy are often best understood by observing what breaks when the cameras turn off and the classified reports surface.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
The American military has always treated its commitment to the Middle East as an immutable fact—a load-bearing wall that cannot be removed, regardless of cost or fatigue.
By Emilio Quesada ·
You read about the USS Abraham Lincoln, and you are not meant to feel the Atlantic spray or hear the thrum of an aircraft catapult. You are meant to feel the cold dread of institutional failure.
By Aoife Gallagher ·