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Eighty Years On, Can the UN Meet Its Mission?

OPINION — The 80th ordinary session of the United Nations ended on September 8, 2026. During this year, the UN will have an opportunity to help [...] More

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America, Ukraine and the Illusion of an Isolationist Choice

OPINION — In 2022 Russia launched its full-scale military invasion of Ukraine, a big and bloody war between the two largest countries in Europe with [...] More

Taiwan's Election Offers Strong Lessons on Disinformation

OPINION — Taiwan’s Presidential election last Saturday took place amid widespread concerns that China would use Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven [...] More

Section 702 Delivers Stronger U.S. National Security

OPINION — In 2011, I took command of our counter-terrorism forces, and the most prolific and dangerous threat we faced at that time came from Al [...] More

Keep an Eye in the Sky for U.S. Missile Defense

OPINION — “We’ve looked extensively at the Ukraine conflict and I can tell you, the use of drones and how we’re seeing drones being utilized in that [...] More

Chinese and Russian Space Pursuits Are Picking Allied Pockets

OPINION — India’s breakthrough lunar landing showed that our free world economies are in an age of healthy research, experimentation, and growth with [...] More

Information is the Most Important Tool in the new War for Truth

OPINION — The first step to winning a war is recognizing you’re in one. The world’s democracies are finally waking up to the waves of malign [...] More

The Threat of Nuclear Terrorism Still Hangs Over Us

OPINION — We will never forget the 2,983 men, women, and children killed in the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon [...] More

The Power of Solid Alliances for Good

OPINION — The Camp David Summit of the U.S., South Korea and Japan was emblematic of an alliance that, despite historical issues, showed that [...] More

Lessons Learned from Listening to Iran

OPINION — “Today I want to talk about Iran-U.S. mutual threat perceptions and deterrence policies, its historical perspective, but more from an [...] More

The Elusive Silver Bullet of Democracy

OPINION — According to a White House statement last March, “President Biden has called the struggle to bolster democratic governance at home and [...] More

While India Cuts Deals with the US, its heart is likely with Russia

EXPERT PERSPECTIVE — The United States believes it has secured India as a strategic ally in the Indo-Pacific region. There will certainly be mutual [...] More