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Ukraine War: The Peace Ball Is Now in Putin's Court Mar. 12, 2025
Late on March 11, the Trump administration announced Ukraine had agreed to a 30-day ceasefire in the... Read More
The Trump Effect: Winning Hearts and Minds Mar. 06, 2025
Democrat strategist James Carville advises his party to simply wait for President Donald Trump to fa... Read More
Ukraine's Collision of Truths Mar. 05, 2025
During his remarkable March 4 address to Congress, President Donald Trump said this about his effort... Read More
Privatized Sea Security Sees a New Wave of Interest Feb. 26, 2025
The 21st century may well be the new age of privateers — armed commercial sailors fighting pir... Read More
How Trump Makes Europe Stronger Feb. 24, 2025
President Donald Trump has a plan to save Europe, and the results of Sunday's election in Germany sh... Read More
Trump Takes a Solid Step Toward Peace in Ukraine Feb. 19, 2025
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth traveled to Belgium last week to participate in the Ukraine Defense C... Read More
Deep State and Big Debt: America's Self-Inflicted Strategic Threat Feb. 19, 2025
The political hacks opposing the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are laughable — un... Read More
Diego Garcia: The American Nowhere Vexing China And Iran Feb. 12, 2025
The island is named Diego Garcia, the biggest little island in the Indian Ocean's isolated Chagos Ar... Read More
New Gaza as Condos, Not Shell Holes Feb. 05, 2025
The Great 21st-Century Creative Strategic Thinker (Donald Trump, aka, The Great Disruptor) wants to ... 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
Protecting the Panama Canal -- and Waterfowl Jan. 22, 2025
Post-inauguration President Donald Trump repeated his Jan. 7 declaration that the U.S. should buy Gr... Read More
Israel Makes a Deal With the Actual Devil Jan. 17, 2025
Only hours after a possible ceasefire deal was announced between Israel and Hamas, Khalil al Hayya, ... Read More
California Burning: Accident, Terror or Sabotage? Jan. 15, 2025
The Japanese called their intercontinental weapons "fusen bakudan" — trans-Pacific balloon-del... Read More
Strategic Challenges 2025: Petrarch, Nukes, Anarchy and Debt Jan. 01, 2025
In January 2022, I wrote my first formal annual Strategic Challenges column — a quick assessme... Read More
The Next Pearl Harbor: Close-In Drone Swarm Attacks Launched From US Soil? Dec. 25, 2024
The Great Drone Hysteria first afflicted New Jersey and New York — with maybes from Maryland a... Read More
2024's Biggest News Story: Trump Survives Assassination To Win Most Significant US Election Since 1980 Dec. 18, 2024
On July 13, 2024, as he turned to consult a chart, an assassin's bullet grazed the presidential cand... Read More
Will Post-Assad Syria Acquire a Neo-Ottoman Turkish Yoke? Dec. 11, 2024
In late summer 2012, Syrian Prime Minister Riyad Hijab denounced his boss, dictator Bashar al-Assad,... Read More
2024 Repeats 1914: China's Baltic Sea Cable-Cutters Reprise WWI 'Hacking' Attacks Dec. 04, 2024
During its Baltic Sea transit, the Chinese merchant ship Yi Peng 3 dropped an anchor — or at l... Read More
Women Shouldn't Be in Combat Roles Dec. 03, 2024
It's amazing how controversial common sense is these days. Look at the reaction to Pete Hegseth's co... 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
