Egypt’s Military Limitations: Cairo’s Options to Defend Eastern Libya
In late June, with the United Nations-backed General National Accord (GNA) government reversing several years’ worth of gains made...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Egypt’s Military Limitations: Cairo’s Options to Defend Eastern Libya
A nation must think before it acts.
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What the Russian Bounties Story Says About the National Security Process of the Trump Administration
With its passage of the National Security Act of 1947, Congress created the National Security Council (NSC) as part...
COVID-19 and Pandemics: The Greatest National Security Threat of 2020 and Beyond
How should the United States define its national security? At the U.S. Army War College, where I teach, that...
India in the Balance
The uneasy relationship between India and China took a sudden turn for the worse in June. With no apparent...
Rising Tides of Terrorism
COVID-19 has shown that atypical, transnational security issues need to be taken seriously. Man-made threats are not the only...
Taiwan Finds an Unexpected New Friend in Somaliland
COVID-19 seemed to change the narrative around Taiwan: from a nation whose existence is often characterized as standing on...
Finding Off Ramps to the Ongoing S-400 Crisis with Turkey
As the United States prepares for the July 4 holiday, Senate Majority Whip John Thune, a Republican from South...
The Implications of Withdrawing American Troops from Germany
On June 6, the Wall Street Journal set off an avalanche of commentary by reporting that U.S. President Donald...
Massif Brawl: China and India Clash in the Himalayas
Iron rods studded with metal tips and stones seem more suited to medieval armies than modern ones. But such...
Political Upheaval in Belarus? Lukashenko Scrambles to Keep Power
Belarusian strongman Aleksandr Lukashenko is in trouble. The self-proclaimed father of Belarus, often called the last dictator in Europe,...