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Earlier this month, some 12,000 illegal migrants crossed the US southern border in one day, setting a new record. According to an October report of the House Committee on Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) encountered 269,735 illegal i

The legacy of Henry Kissinger, who died at the age of 100 this past week, will be debated for a very long time. But there is no question that his contributions to US foreign policy, both as a practitioner and scholar, were outsized. He was a practitioner

South Korea will resume surveillance flights along its border with the North.

South Korea has suspended parts of its 2018 agreement with the North aimed at lowering military tensions.

Israel is under attack for defending itself. On 7 October, the terrorist organization Hamas launched an attack from Gaza that targeted Israeli civilians, ultimately killing some 1400 and wounding thousands more. It massacred entire families, sparing neith

The disgraceful reaction of too many people to the recent slaughter of some 1,400 Jews by Hamas in southern Israel confirms the observation of Eric Hoffer in a 1968 essay for the Los Angeles Times: “the Jews are alone in the world.” This reaction, especia

The weekend attack in Southern Israel by the Iranian proxy, Hamas, has resulted in the death of hundreds of Israelis and injury to many more (with the body count continuing to rise). Roving bands of Hamas terrorists have murdered Israeli civilians—men, wo

A year ago, as mandated by the Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986, the Biden administration published its National Security Strategy (NSS), which theoretically serves as the grand strategy document for the United States, linking the ends of policy with the mea

Recent reports indicate that the long-touted Ukrainian counter-offensive, originally launched in the spring, is achieving some positive results. According to these reports, Ukrainian forces have created a breach in Russian defenses in Southeast Ukraine, f

The Russo-Ukrainian War continues with no end in sight. The long-awaited spring Ukrainian spring-summer counter-offensive has sputtered, achieving few gains against Russia’s defense in depth. Putin, after his attempt to achieve a quick victory at the begi