When the North Koreans invaded South Korea in the summer of 1950, they met little effective resistance. The capital of South Korea, Seoul, fell in a few days. America had been ambiguous about defending South Korea. When in January of…
Not to get faux-erudite; Tocqueville was required reading when I was in school, and a blessed requirement that was. I returned to the famous concluding peroration after reading about the negotiations the president views as the necessary end to the…
What is it about Washington liberals and Democratic leaders that made them so anxious for a deal with Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, Konstantin Chernenko, and Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1970s and 1980s, but not with Vladimir Putin in the second…
After the White House shouting contest on Friday, U.S. support for Ukraine may be at an end. No one can be happy about that except Vladimir Putin. A little background before we get to the shouting. Before he became vice…
The 61st Munich Security Conference will take place Feb. 14-16 at Munich’s renowned Hotel Bayerischer Hof, located on the edge of Munich’s old town on the Promenade Platz. Much is expected of this year’s conference since it’s been widely assumed…
On the eve of Donald Trump’s second inauguration, we would do well to pay close attention to what he has said, over and over again about foreign policy — and not the words put in his mouth by others, frequently…
The dazzling effects of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s battlefield acrobatics are wearing thin. His incursion into Russia’s border region of Kursk, hailed back in August as a military feat, has failed in its objective of drawing Russian forces away from the…
Green New Deal energy policies are prolonging war and over time, constitute the real “existential threat” to free societies in their struggle with powerful autocracies. A nation’s industrial base and military prowess is dependent on reasonably priced fossil fuels, to…
