Saluting our military veterans

Will you join me in saluting our military veterans? Better yet, how about a standing ovation?  This is a minimal investment to offer our service members who make incredible sacrifices on behalf of our nation. U.S. military service members are always ready to salute and go as deployment orders send them into harms way to protect and Read More >

Taiwan: China Is Using “Gray Zone” Warfare to Degrade Island’s Defenses

11/10/21 China Watch Enable IntenseDebate Comments:  Enable IntenseDebate Comments Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday that China is practicing “gray zone” warfare against it with the aim of degrading and exhausting the island’s ability to defend itself. In a report updated every two years, the ministry called the threat from China “grave.” The report says China is using Read More >

Counterterrorism Successes Against Foreign Fighters

11/11/21 ARGUMENT: Defeating Foreign Fighters Enable IntenseDebate Comments:  Enable IntenseDebate Comments As Dan Byman wrote in his book Road Warriors and in a recent spinoff article in Political Science Quarterly,jihadists who travel abroad to fight and train—foreign fighters—can become highly lethal terrorists. This danger has received renewed attention in recent months with the withdrawal of Read More >

Biological Weapons in the “Shadow War”

11/9/21 ARGUMENT: Assessing Biowarfare Enable IntenseDebate Comments:  Enable IntenseDebate Comments Do countries still need to worry about threats from biological weapons? The COVID-19 pandemic has led to renewed discussion of biological weapons and whether bad actors — both nations and terrorists — have refocused their attention on developing them. read more