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Trump Is Right to Keep Ukraine Out of NATO Aug. 20, 2025
After he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska and before he met with Ukrainian Presid... Read More
Other Presidents Complained, But Trump Made NATO Step Up Jul. 03, 2025
President Donald Trump joined a long line of presidents who complained that the NATO countries fail ... Read More
Decoupling, Reshoring and Restoring US Defense Apr. 23, 2025
In a column published June 12, 2019, I wrote, "I think 50 years from now, historians will argue that... Read More
Europe's Decline Was a Choice Mar. 03, 2025
Donald Tusk, the prime minister of Poland, might not shock Europe's leaders the way Donald Trump doe... Read More
Trump Sees Israel's Iron Dome for America Feb. 04, 2025
WASHINGTON — "We will build a massive missile defense shield to protect us," Donald Trump told... Read More
21st-Century 'Star Wars': Trump's Huge Iron Dome Jan. 29, 2025
President Donald Trump's Jan. 27 strategic defense executive order includes this hard-nosed truth ab... Read More
The Problemed Nominee Dec. 06, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Fox News host Pete Hegseth to be Secretary of Defense. He... Read More
Let's Curb the Kangaroo Court of Anonymous Sources Dec. 06, 2024
The anti-Trump media have already congratulated themselves for destroying the Matt Gaetz nomination ... Read More
Pete Hegseth's Pentagon Fix-It List Nov. 20, 2024
Pete Hegseth has a very fine mind — a mind strategically informed by a superb military combat ... Read More
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall Nov. 20, 2024
What does Donald Trump see when he looks at his choices for attorney general, secretary of defense, ... Read More
Defended Borders Fundamental To US National Defense Oct. 23, 2024
It's simple, and everybody with common sense gets it. A national border isn't a line on a map. A bor... Read More
Poland's Eastern Shield: On NATO'S Eastern Flank: Part 2 Jun. 05, 2024
In late May 2024, Poland decided concrete bunkers, barbed wire and other fixed defenses are a sane a... Read More
NATO in the Joe Biden Moment May. 08, 2024
On April 29, The Economist magazine asked French President Emmanuel Macron a very direct question: "... Read More
Children in Charge on College Campuses May. 07, 2024
A favorite quote from the recent campus conflicts comes from Adam Young, a freshman at the New Schoo... Read More
Israel's Airspace Defense Victory: Credit Reagan's SDI Apr. 17, 2024
Battlefield — or battlespace — results tell the tale. Iran's ayatollahs hadn't a clue as... Read More
Fixing US Defense Procurement: A Texas Independent Helicopter Example Mar. 20, 2024
America's defense industrial base just received a bad report card — and given recent U.S. defe... Read More
Israel As 'A Pariah' Among the Nations Mar. 19, 2024
Last week, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) twice described Israel as a "pariah" among ... Read More
The Ukraine Powder Keg's Hot Matches Feb. 28, 2024
In his post-9/11 history "An Autumn of War" (2004), historian Victor Davis Hanson wrote, "If war is ... Read More
Freedom Is Not Free Jan. 31, 2024
One picture worth a thousand words is a graph on the U.S. Department of Defense website showing U.S.... Read More
What the Defense Authorization Does Not Defend Dec. 20, 2023
When the U.S. House of Representatives was considering the fiscal 2024 National Defense Authorizatio... Read More
