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by | Mar 27, 2023

What does TikTok have in common with 9/11? On Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists hijacked airplanes and committed suicide attacks on the World Trade Center’s twin towers in New York City and the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. These terrorists took advantage…

by | Mar 27, 2023

Twenty years and one week ago, American forces invaded Iraq. By the time then-President Barack Obama withdrew our troops in October 2011, they had suffered about 4,000 deaths, including combat and noncombat casualties, plus about 32,000 wounded. Our British allies,…

by | Feb 6, 2023

As the Chinese spy balloon crisis deflates, a key question remains: Why did the PRC do it? The answer might be as simple as this: Because they could. Maybe no one in Beijing believed that the Red Zeppelin would be…

by | Nov 19, 2022

The Naval Institute Press has just published a small book titled The Road to Pearl Harbor: Great Power War in Asia and the Pacific, which is part history and part a warning that history may be about to repeat itself…

by | Mar 23, 2022

As the U.S. continues to support Ukraine through materiel and international sanctions on Russia, intelligence officials are now warning of a potential cyberattack on key American infrastructure.  An FBI intelligence memo from March 18 obtained by CBS has revealed that…

by | Jan 3, 2022

Once a brutal dictatorship, Taiwan is now one of the world’s most vibrant democracies, having received a Global Freedom Score of 94/100 from Freedom House and the accolade of Asia’s most democratic country from the Economist. Its leader, President Tsai…

by | Dec 27, 2021

In an article in TAS in November, I noted that U.S. allies were concerned that the Biden administration may adopt a “no-first use” of nuclear weapons policy even in the face of a recent Pentagon report which warned that China…

by | Dec 13, 2021

Dmitry Muratov and Maria Ressa shared the Nobel Peace Prize this year, the first time journalists have been the laureates of the prestigious, and at times controversial, institution. The Nobel Peace Prize is conferred by the Norwegian parliament, in keeping…

by | Aug 24, 2020

There are few people in American history less deserving of a presidential pardon than Moscow resident Edward Snowden. Then why on Earth is President Trump considering one for him? On August 15, Trump told a press conference that while he…

by | Jul 24, 2020

ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns the popular short video app TikTok, may sell a majority of its stake in the app to a small group of its U.S. investors as the United States government examines the possibility of a…

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