The Trump Administration’s just released National Security Strategy properly identifies Iran as among the important challengers to U.S. security interests but does not offer a concrete strategy on how to counter its growing regional hegemony. Indeed, Iran’s geopolitical ascent is…
As ISIS goes down to military defeat, the United States requires a longer-range plan and an enduring force presence to deny Iran total victory in Syria. Otherwise, the United States risks losing influence as a new Middle Eastern order is…
US doesn’t need Qatar air base if Qatar won’t support our fight against terrorism By General Charles Wald, USAF (ret.) – Fox News It’s time to end the Washington myth that the United States must tread carefully in confronting Qatar…
On November 14, JINSA’s Steve Pomerantz discussed Attorney General Sessions’ testimony before Congress on Bloomberg News.
There is bipartisan consensus for the need to fight Islamic terror central, and yet the American taxpayer helps finance an organization that incentivizes terrorism. Every year the Palestinian Authority (PA) spends hundreds of millions of dollars rewarding attacks on civilians,…
Taylor Force Act Ending US Funding for PA Terror Payments Set for Congressional Markup By Ben Cohen – The Algemeiner A signature piece of US anti-terrorism legislation is scheduled to be “marked up” by the House Foreign Affairs Committee next…
Balfour at 100 By Michael Makovsky, PhD – The Weekly Standard A century has passed since Britain became the first nation to recognize a Jewish homeland. November 2 marks the centennial of Britain’s Balfour Declaration, the first international recognition of…
Donald Trump has announced two important and long overdue changes to Iran policy. First, he committed to addressing the shortcomings of the Iran nuclear deal, without terminating it. Second, he called for a comprehensive strategy to counter Iranian aggression throughout…
The U.S.-Turkish relationship has recently become so bad that analysts in both countries now wonder if it is beyond repair. There are good grounds for the worsening of this relationship, not least President Tayyip Erdoğan’s increasingly blatant anti-Americanism. But going…
Addressing the United Nations General Assembly last week, President Trump singled out two countries as “reckless regimes” engaged in “hostile behavior”: North Korea and Iran. His remarks echoed President George W. Bush’s invocation of an “axis of evil” including those…