In 2017, U.S. and allied Kurdish forces bombarded the city of Raqqa, the bastion of ISIS in Syria and the de-facto capital of the terror group’s self-proclaimed caliphate. Concurrent to this, U.S. forces conducted massive air strikes on the Iraqi city of Mosul, to...
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For First Time, Taiwanese Troops Take Aim at Chinese Drone
by Dave DeCamp | Aug 31, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday that Taiwanese troops fired warning shots at a Chinese drone that was flying in airspace over Kinmen County, an archipelago of Taiwanese-controlled islands off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The Taiwanese Army’s Kinmen...
Joe Biden’s Demand of ‘Unconditional Surrender’ to Russia Will Fail
by Douglas Macgregor | Aug 29, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
When the Combined Chiefs of Staff Conference in Casablanca, Morocco ended in January 1943, President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill held a press conference. Toward the end of the press conference, FDR told the correspondents that the...
The Afghanistan Withdrawal, One Year Later
by Dan McKnight | Aug 29, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
This is a mournful anniversary. One year ago, on August 26, thirteen U.S. soldiers were killed by ISIS-affiliated suicide bombing at the Hamid Karzai airport in Kabul during the evacuation. They were the last Americans to die in Afghanistan. Poor planning by the...
Washington Is Gaslighting Us About Taiwan
by Patrick Macfarlane | Aug 25, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Since Nancy Pelosi’s purposeless diplomatic visit to Taipei on August 2, cross-strait tensions have soared between China and Taiwan. Pelosi’s envoy has effectively reduced U.S.-China relations to its lowest point since at least 1995—when diplomatic efforts between...
The Global War on Terror Gave Us Student Debt ‘Forgiveness’
by Dan McKnight | Aug 25, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Yesterday President Joe Biden announced he’s “forgiving” up to $20,000 of student loan debt per student, totalling over $300 billion dollars. Poof, it’s gone! And where does the president find the authority for such a large, spontaneous action? Well, it’s another gift...
As Faith in the Regime Wanes, So Does Military Recruitment
by Ryan McMaken | Aug 25, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
The U.S. Army reports it is having some serious problems when it comes to recruiting new soldiers. Last month, according to the AP: “Army officials…said the service will fall about 10,000 soldiers short of its planned end strength for this fiscal year, and prospects...
NATO Abandons Diplomacy, Says No Longer ‘At Peace’
by Bas Spliet | Aug 23, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
At the end of its annual summit in Madrid in late June, NATO adopted a new strategic concept. The guidance document is the eighth of its kind since the founding of the alliance in 1949. It radically breaks with the three previous post-Cold War security briefs,...