National Security

No, not whoever your disfavored party is this election cycle. The *real* enemy – the one trying to kill you directly. Not that we can’t get patriotic about it, in conformance with the season: The rocket’s red glare, the bombs

The Korea Times reports: “Kim Jong-nam, the eldest son of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, apparently believes the Stalinist regime could collapse amid a power transfer to his younger brother, a South Korean official said Tuesday. Lee Gi-taek, the head

Its heritage may be anonymous graveyards and its bequest may have been the Second World War, but World War I was fought and won no less by American heroes who deserve a bolder remembrance than we have given them. And

They finally nabbed Al Capone–but for tax evasion. Legislation to de-fund The Corporation for Public Broadcasting will finally be introduced–but because of Juan Williams’ pink slip. Senator Jim DeMint explained his motivation, “Since 2001, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which

The Center for Security Policy just released its ninth National Security Scorecard for the 111th Congress, 2009-2010. The scored votes – eight in the U.S. House of Representatives, twelve in the U.S. Senate – covered a wide range of national

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Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper reports: “WASHINGTON: The United States said on Monday that it had no problem with Iran sending bags of cash to President Hamid Karzai but hoped that this assistance would not have a ‘negative’ influence on Afghanistan.” There,

The U.S. Constitution makes a civilian, the President, our commander in chief. This is a good thing. But it also means that our civilian leaders often come up with some crazy, stupid, and dangerous ideas. Foreign Policy has come up

It is hard to imagine but U.S. president Barack Obama has failed to deliver any measurable diplomatic success in the Middle East. It would be generous at this point to try and argue that he hasn’t made things worse. Regardless,

Ben Lerner at The American Spectator today writes on the need to take another look at revoking citizenship from US citizens like Samir Khan (pictured below) who become terrorist operatives: To be sure, jihadist terrorists generally could care less whether

When Russian census taker Anastasia Fedotova came to the door of President Dmitry Medvedev, the president noticed the scarf the census takers were given. “What else do they give you,” Medvedev asked. “A flashlight and a whistle,” Fedotova responded. “Why

During the Ronald Reagan Administration, Voice of America (VOA), the nation’s international broadcast network, was used effectively to educate the Soviet people about the virtues of freedom. By all accounts, it played a huge roll in bringing down the Soviet

“In the age of cyberspace, an Iranian cyber-force could attack within the United States from Tehran” without reliance on Hizballah, said former national security official Richard Clarke in a speech Friday. Having co-authored “Cyber War: The Next Threat to National

The Army Times reports: One proposal to start a war in Iraq: Let Saddam Hussein shoot down an Air Force U-2. Retired Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Hugh Shelton said he heard that idea in October 1997 from a

In a speech to members of her Christian Democratic Union party in Potsdam on October 16, German Chancellor Angela Merkel drove a stake through the heart of European Utopian fantasies. Referring to the influx of foreign workers to Germany since

Dubai’s Khaleej Times reports: “Afghan President Hamid Karzai has admitted that his chief of staff received ‘bags of money’ from Iran but insisted the payment was transparent and a form of aid from a friendly country. Cash payments ‘are done

China is asserting itself on the world stage but with a 21st Century strategy. Striving to resurrect its former glory as a power after a century of foreign domination, World War and Mao’s murderous Cultural Revolution, China’s socialist dictators realize

Obama wants to negotiate with the Taliban? What sort of brilliant strategist devised that idea? I’ll see your Holbrooke, and raise you a Hillary. Not since the waning days of the Johnson administration has America had so many clueless eggheads

If, as polls show, war is “off the radar” for midterm voters, it’s a non-issue for midterm candidates, too. Iraq and Afghanistan, for example, show up exactly one time apiece in the GOP Pledge to America (on one page out

The Daily Mail is reporting that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s sister-in-law recently underwent a religious experience and now is a practicing Muslim. Is Prince Charles next? An excerpt: Tony Blair’s sister-in-law has converted to Islam after having a

This week marked the 15th anniversary of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin. Rabin was a pragmatic man, who negotiated with (and even shook hands with) a terrorist simply to prevent further bloodshed of innocent Israelis, but he

Marxism/communism is the economic interpretation of history. The state must control sources of production and assets. Fidel began his Revolution by expropriating the sources of production and private assets in Cuba, including major US citizen’s assets. The United States retaliated

Part 13 of a serialization of Shariah – The Threat to America, the report of Team B II of the Center for Security Policy. An extensive FBI investigation and federal prosecution resulted in convictions that shed light on the Muslim

This is the latest installment in a weekly series of exclusive interviews with Dr. Paul Kengor, professor of political science at Grove City College in Grove City, Pennsylvania, who has just released a major book revealing how communists, from Moscow