With Russia poised to invade Ukraine, China ramping up aggression in the South China Sea and Iran inching closer toward the nuclear bomb, terrorist rocket attacks on Israel are no longer front-page news. That doesn’t mean they’ve stopped. What has stopped, at…
The Islamic Republic of Iran, long held to be the world’s preeminent state sponsor of terrorism, is rapidly expanding its drone capabilities. A recent study reveals how Iran has been increasing the scale and scope of its drone attacks. The report…
WASHINGTON – The State Department approved a possible foreign military sale to Jordan on Tuesday. According to the State Department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs (PM), the $70 million deal will include guided multiple launch rocket systems, alternate warheads, unitary rocket…
Last week, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-NJ) took to the Senate floor to rip the Biden’s administration’s Iran policy to shreds. In surprisingly harsh terms, Menendez spent an hour eviscerating the White House over its so-far unsuccessful…
Despite President Joe Biden’s intent to reduce America’s focus on the Middle East and the war on terror, an enormous amount of his administration’s foreign policy bandwidth during its first year was consumed by the region’s problems—from restraining Iran’s nuclear program and…
For the third time in two weeks, Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen on Monday attacked the United Arab Emirates with ballistic missiles — this time during the first-ever visit by an Israeli president. On Wednesday, three drones claimed by a pro-Iran militia in…
The historic Arab-Israel normalization agreements of 2020, known as the Abraham Accords, were an extraordinary triumph of U.S. diplomacy. More than a quarter century after Israel’s last peace deal with one of its Arab neighbors, the United States brokered four…
Over the past two decades information was mostly conceptualized as a supporting effort to combat: information contributed to tactical and operational success. Given today’s immediately interconnected world, the character of war is changing with the blurring of the lines between…
A running joke at the United Nations is that it wouldn’t be Christmas Eve if the U.N. General Assembly wasn’t still deliberating the next year’s budget. This year, instead of dithering, the grinches at the U.N. delivered an unwelcome gift…
The United States this week resumed long-delayed indirect nuclear talks with Iran in a very weak position. Recent meetings with senior defense officials from our closest Middle Eastern ally, Israel, were the most pessimistic I can recall. They perceive America…