National Interest
Thursday, May 26, 2016 - 06:36
At a summit meeting in Warsaw in early July, NATO will consider how best to deter Russia. Ukraine and the Baltics will be at center stage. But Georgia deserves a signal in Warsaw that it will not be forgotten if Russia adopts a harsher policy. For Georgia, the main security balancer is the United States. The late former Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze said that without American support, Georgia would have lost its independence and been swallowed by Russia.
Tuesday, May 12, 2015 - 07:16
We recently passed the nine-month anniversary since the start of the U.S.-led air campaign, later named Operation Inherent Resolve, against the self-declared Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria. The air war, which Secretary of State John Kerry then described as definitively not a war, but rather “a heightened level of counterterrorism operation,” shows no sign of ending. In an unnoticed indicator found in the prepared testimony before the House Armed Services Committee, two U.S. Air Force lieutenant generals acknowledged: “These combat operations are expected to continue long-term (3+ years).”
Monday, February 2, 2015 - 13:20
The United States pursues security cooperation in 148 countries around the world to develop partner nations’ capabilities, build relationships and interoperability and secure peacetime and contingency access to critical air, land and sea nodes to protect U.S. national-security interests. With its questionable record in Iraq and Afghanistan, the author asks why should the United States continue to invest in security cooperation with foreign militaries?
Friday, June 29, 2012 - 00:00
Despite periodic claims of success, as long as robust consumer demand exists for drugs, an adequate supply will emerge. Only the specific geographic source of the supply will vary.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008 - 00:00
Founded by imprisoned guerrillas of the country’s two most vicious narco-trafficking terror organizations, the self-styled, ultra-left freedom-fighting groups FARC and ELN, Manos Por La Paz has a clear but complicated mission