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Information coming to light indicates that the OPM hack that stole the data of every U.S. government employee was ongoing for months.

The Delta Force raid that killed ISIS leader Abu Sayyaf sounded suspiciously like a Hollywood screenplay.

Is it really that big a deal if the Chinese stole lists of government employees? It is when the list is of Americans with top-secret security clearances.

Who is responsible for the 2003 invasion of Iraq? Don’t say, “Thanks Obama” for this one.

ISIS seeks to take credit for any kind of attack, or act of god, to give an exaggerated impression of how important they really are.

Can a nation be both a friend and a foe to the United States at the same time? Today we have a situation in which Iran is a de facto ally of ours in the fight against ISIS, but also a country we’re actively trying to subvert in places like Yemen. While arrangements like this leave […]

Has anyone ever stopped to actually ask what it is that America wants to accomplish with our foreign policy? What are our long-term goals? What is our strategy to achieve those goals? Instead, our diplomatic, intelligence, and military forces are constantly in ‘react mode’ due to a lack of guidance from our legislative and executive […]

The United States and Cuba took definitive steps to end a half-century of animosity and icy relations this holiday season, after reportedly 18 months or so of back-channel discussions between high-level representatives of each country’s presidential administration, as well as the Vatican.  The two countries used the swap of intelligence assets and an American aid […]

We need a new American Grand Strategy if America is to preserve a long-lasting world order commensurate with its national interests and values.