On June 30, 1976, I moved from New York City to Los Angeles to do various tasks in Hollywood. I had in 1973–74 been a speechwriter for President Richard Nixon and had become friends with him in a small way…
Jessica Chen Weiss, who served on the Biden State Department’s Policy Planning Staff until last July, has once again taken to the pages of Foreign Affairs to assure us that “[f]ears that China will soon invade Taiwan are overblown,” and…
Even as China announced that it is increasing its defense budget by more than 7 percent, renewed its threats against Taiwan, and warned that conflict with the United States is inevitable unless Washington’s policy accommodates China’s demands, the mirage of…
In a 1940 speech, President Franklin Roosevelt labeled Detroit the “arsenal of democracy.” During World War II, Detroit alone built tens of thousands of tanks and other ground vehicles, aircraft, bombs, and guns. Much of the rest of our economy…
What are we watching in Ukraine? Is the Russian invasion a blundering failure by a desperate tyrant? Or is it possible that Vladimir Putin was correct in his estimate that Western democracies have become weak, decadent, and cowardly, so that…
Word came on Thursday that the Air Force has grounded all of its KC-135 tanker aircraft because of a defective pin that could result in the loss of a part of the tail section of the aircraft while in flight….
Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro, who previously identified climate change as the greatest threat to U.S. national security, has renamed Maury Hall at the U.S. Naval Academy to honor Jimmy Carter, a Naval Academy graduate (class of 1946) and former…
Ever since Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalist Party of China, or Kuomintang (KMT), declared their control of Taiwan in 1949 after losing the Chinese civil war, the United States has pledged to defend Taiwan against Communist aggression from the mainland….
For the fourth time in less than 10 days, U.S. fighters have shot down a balloon, at least one of which was a Chinese spy balloon. One traversed the entire country before being shot down. Another entered Alaskan air space…
