A Post-Post-Cold-War NATO
The U.S.-led alliance has been very successful for most of a century. Now what?
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Richard Nixon’s ‘Silent Majority’ Plan
Fifty years ago, the president mapped out a future that could well have saved South Vietnam from Communism.
The Impeachment Farce Limps Along to Its Anticlimax
All but the most committed Trump haters have grown tired of the spurious investigation and its unvarnished bias against the president.
Planning the Post-War World
FDR thought Churchill had been traumatized by World War I and underestimated what could be achieved by overwhelming Allied advantages in tanks and aircraft.
In Syria, Trump Makes the Best of the Situation
The Kurds are far from being unified and reliable U.S. allies, and Trump had little choice but to withdraw our few hundred troops.
Trump’s Wise Turkey Policy
It can be the key part of a broad Middle Eastern coalition against Iran.
Joe Biden: Mediocrity Personified
Robert Gates said Biden was “wrong on nearly every foreign policy and national security issue in the past four decades.”
Trump’s Economic Triumph
Trump's trade policy is clearly working; the flow of illegal immigrants is sharply diminishing; and the U.S. has practically ceased to be a net oil importer.
Iran’s Act of War
There is no reason to believe, or even to recommend, that Saudi Arabia should turn the other cheek and engage in reactive pacifism.
Trump’s Only Real Weakness Is His Style
If the president can become a bit more presidential, his reelection will be all but assured.