In 1990, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) provided “full funding” for one Anwar Nasser Abdulla al-Awlaki for studies in civil engineering at Colorado State University. There was only one problem: the USAID document listed his birthplace as Sana'a,...
Roughly 4,000 soldiers of the Army's 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, unpacked their gear in the second week of May. The Associated Press reported that the Pentagon had scrapped their rotation to Poland altogether, thinning American numbers in...
Ukraine is in trouble. It is losing the war in Eastern Europe, it is losing its land, and it is losing its people. Ukraine’s demographic survival is in danger: it is wasting away. Since the conflict in Ukraine began in 2014, millions of Ukrainians have fled to friends...
A photograph moved across the Western wires with a caption in capital letters. "COUNTER US POWER," it read, above an image of the Kyrgyzstan president walking China's Xi Jinping past an honor guard in Bishkek, when they met at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization...
For decades, one of the keys to Washington’s power has been its ability to use favorably inclined allies as force multipliers. Now, facing its first peer competitor in generations, Washington has been busily alienating pretty much everyone it can. This alienation can...
Do you remember over the course of the 2016, 2020, and 2024 presidential elections when Donald Trump and his “Make America Great Again” movement promised to launch the United States into yet another Middle Eastern war, this time with Iran? No? No one does. Because it...
It has been accepted for months that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was instrumental in convincing U.S. President Donald Trump that war with Iran was a good idea. In February, The New York Times reported on the shocking extent to which Netanyahu had access...
September 1 is the anniversary of the start of World War II in Europe. On that date in 1939, Nazi Germany launched an invasion of Poland from the west and a few weeks later, the Soviet Union invaded from the east. Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin signed a non-aggression...
