Jed Babbin
There are not many air raids or even battles that have a strategic effect. The Ukrainian strike on Russian air bases, some thousands of miles from Ukraine, may have been one. The Russian raid on Kyiv was a paltry response…
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Russian forces have intentionally targeted and killed civilians. Hospitals, schools, homes, apartment buildings, and businesses have been bombed and blown apart by Russian artillery. Russian forces aren’t doing this by accident….
Last Wednesday night, when two Israeli embassy employees were murdered outside the Jewish Museum in DC, the perpetrator told bystanders, “I did it for Gaza,” and shouted “free Palestine” as he was being arrested. The two victims were an Israeli…
President Trump was so frustrated with the Boeing Company’s delays in producing new versions of Air Force One that he accepted a new Boeing 747 from the Qataris to serve as that aircraft. Boeing failed to perform on a 2018…
George Washington’s first message to Congress contained the words, “To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.” Though he didn’t mention the word, he was speaking of the concept of deterrence. Deterrence is…
Defense-minded conservatives were a bit shocked when President Trump announced that he was pursuing a new nuclear weapons deal with Iran. We know that when the ayatollahs aren’t shouting “Death to America” — which they say is a policy, not…
Most of the media failed to report on a tremendously important development last week: King Abdullah of Jordan banned the Muslim Brotherhood in his country. We last heard of the Muslim Brotherhood (“the Brotherhood” or “al-Ikhwan”) six years ago when…
There is so much going on in litigation against President Trump’s various policies that it’s tough to keep track of it. One of the basics I learned long ago in law school is that a court has jurisdiction only over…
An administrative law judge ruled on Friday that Columbia University graduate student and pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil can be deported under the Immigration and Naturalization Act. Before we celebrate that decision too much we have to remember that there will…
