Geography is destiny, but when it comes to U.S. bases in the Middle East, it needn’t be. Our current basing structure detracts from our ability to deter Iran — the core threat — because it reduces our ability to fight…
The news out of Israel is, well, discouraging. It seems increasingly likely that Israel is going to launch a major combat operation to clear Hezbollah assets from southern Lebanon. The threat to Israeli border communities—which have been victimized by constant…
The Houthis’ August 23 attack on the Greek-flagged MV Sounion, nearly costing 25 seafarers their lives, now threatens to become among the largest environmental disasters in history should the tanker and its 150,000 metric tons of oil capsize. Houthi-broadcast images…
JINSA is issuing a new report from its Hertog Distinguished Fellow and former CENTCOM Commander Gen Frank McKenzie, USMC (ret.) that lays out the risks inherent in America’s current basing structure in the Middle East, its vulnerabilities in a looming…
The United States must use this week’s Vienna meeting of atomic inspectors to stop Iran’s nuclear program from becoming a black box. Without being able to detect Tehran’s final leap to the bomb, or even how close it might be,…
America’s intelligence chief recently warned that Iran is preparing to take the final steps to produce a nuclear weapon, making it now mostly a matter of Tehran’s choice if and when to do so. This stark departure from routine U.S.…
Hamas’s execution of six innocent hostages, including an American, is a gut-wrenching, harrowing reminder of the savagery inflicted upon Israel on October 7 by the Iran-backed terrorist group. But it also exposes the folly of the Biden-Harris administration’s constantly pressuring…
Threats to the United States and its citizens from the Islamic Republic of Iran and its terror proxies have reached a fever pitch, with no clear U.S. policy for how to stop it. Tehran is perched on the nuclear threshold,…
Hamas’ murder of six Israeli hostages, including a U.S. citizen, is another reminder not only that Hamas remains a genuine danger to Israel, but that it is among the most immoral, illegal, and barbaric armed groups in the world. War,…
Iran’s nuclear weapons program has crept closer and closer toward breakout. The U.S. Director of National Intelligence reported in July 2024 that Iran has “undertaken activities that better position [Iran] to produce a nuclear device, if it chooses to do…