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• • Commentary
  • The Wall Street Journal
  • August 22, 2017
  Trump Learns From America’s Failures in Afghanistan

  Since the end of the Cold War, one of the unfortunate patterns in American foreign policy has been the tendency of new presidents to denounce their predecessors’ approach to t...

  By Vance Serchuk

• • Commentary
  • The Hill
  • August 21, 2017
  Cut the budget caps: The US needs to properly fund our military

  Amidst the return of the Maverick and late-night health care votes in the Senate, it is easy to lose sight of the other major development to happen on the Hill last couple wee...

  By Lauren Fish

• • Commentary
  • The National Interest
  • August 21, 2017
  The Untapped Geopolitical Power of U.S. Natural Gas

  Many in the United States and among our foreign allies are deeply disappointed by President Trump’s retreat from global leadership. What is equally depressing is how the admin...

  By Elizabeth Rosenberg & ​Neil Bhatiya

• • Commentary
  • The Washington Post
  • August 21, 2017
  Here are 5 takeaways from Trump’s startling nuclear threats against North Korea

  Read the full op-ed in The Washington Post....

  By Mira Rapp-Hooper

• • Commentary
  • The Atlantic
  • August 21, 2017
  America Needs to Stay in Afghanistan

  Nearly 16 years after the September 11 terrorist attacks, the United States is nearing a seminal moment in its involvement in Afghanistan, as President Donald Trump gathers at...

  By Vance Serchuk

• • Commentary
  • DC Bar
  • August 17, 2017
  Brexit: ‘Til Regulations Do Us Part?

  On June 23, 2016, British citizens voted by a four percent margin to leave the European Union, sending shockwaves across Europe and unsettling world markets. The Brexit vote a...

  By Rachel Rizzo

• Commentary
  • Foreign Affairs
  • August 15, 2017
  What America Owes Its Veterans

  Each year, the U.S. military recruits some 175,000 young Americans. At the heart of its pitch is a sacred promise to take care of those who serve—what President Abraham Lincol...

  By Phillip Carter

• Commentary
  • The Washington Post
  • August 14, 2017
  Loren DeJonge Schulman in The Washington Post on Sabotaging America's Future Diplomats

  Stephen K. Bannon pledged to destroy the American “administrative state.” Russian President Vladimir Putin is devoted to ending America’s global leadership. One of their most ...

  By Loren DeJonge Schulman

• • Commentary
  • The National Interest
  • August 13, 2017
  America's Darwinian Nationalism

  THE UNITED STATES, Russia and China are all losing, or have lost, their ideological and spiritual purpose. This is clear in the case of the Russian and Chinese regimes, which ...

  By Robert D. Kaplan

• • Commentary
  • Independent Journal Review
  • August 13, 2017
  The Trump Administration Needs to Consider These Factors When Reviewing National Defense

  Last month, President Trump ordered a review of the national defense industrial base. The topic often gets interest on the Hill, and occasionally from secretaries of defense, ...

  By Lauren Fish

• Commentary
  • The New York Times
  • August 12, 2017
  Julianne Smith in The New York Times on Women in National Security

  I held the syringe up to the light above the bathroom mirror and flicked it a few times with my finger to make sure I had the exact dose of Lupron. I checked my watch to calcu...

  By Julianne Smith

• • Commentary
  • The Hill
  • August 11, 2017
  Trump’s right — we are losing in Afghanistan

  President Trump is not wrong on Afghanistan. During a contentious July meeting with his top military and national security advisors, he repeatedly questioned the quality of ad...

  By Dr. Jason Dempsey

• Commentary
  • August 10, 2017
  Afghanistan Has No Silver Bullet

  Last week, NBC News reported that President Donald Trump laced into top military leaders in mid-July over U.S. strategy and performance in Afghanistan. He refused to sign off ...

  By Stephen Tankel

• Commentary
  • August 8, 2017
  Make Globalization Work Again

  President Donald J. Trump has sought to make the concerns of American workers the centerpiece of his administration – especially those who feel left behind by the significant ...

  By Harry Krejsa

• • Commentary
  • The Atlantic
  • August 4, 2017
  Can This National Security Council Handle a Real Crisis?

  It’s hard to believe, but this administration has not experienced a genuine national-security crisis in more than six months in office. Yes, missile tests in North Korea and a...

  By Loren DeJonge Schulman

• • Commentary
  • Slate
  • August 4, 2017
  Trump’s 21 Club Salute

  According to an incredibly detailed NBC News report of a highly classified National Security Council meeting, President Donald Trump unloaded on his top military leaders over ...

  By Phillip Carter

• • Commentary
  • War on the Rocks
  • August 2, 2017
  North Korea and the ‘Blink’ of War

  At a time when peace in Asia seems to hang by a thread of hope that untested leaders will exercise restraint, a North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) seems a ...

  By Patrick M. Cronin

• Commentary
  • August 2, 2017
  Recommendations for Implementing Sanctions on Russia

  The new sanctions that Congress passed against Russia on July 27 have the potential to increase economic and political pressure on Moscow and represent an important U.S. respo...

  By Peter Harrell

• • Commentary
  • Slate
  • August 2, 2017
  The Warrior Caste

  When the new White House chief of staff, then a Marine general, John Kelly received a knock on the door in November 2010, he became the highest-ranking military officer to los...

  By Amy Schafer

• • Commentary
  • Foreign Policy
  • August 2, 2017
  Is the U.S. Ready for Russia’s Largest Military Exercises Since the Cold War?

  Before his visit to Estonia, Vice President Mike Pence probably didn’t know the Russian word for “west” — zapad. But he knows it now, because it is the codename for one of the...

  By Jim Townsend