China and Taiwan; U.S. Options For Regional Security

Retired U.S. Air Force Colonel Duke Woodhull opines that Xi believes that a blustering, threatening approach will so thoroughly discourage Taiwan’s potential defenders, that a fully-mobilized invasion of Taiwan will not even be required.

No One Wants to Live Next to a Landfill

I have long said that the conquering Israelis should have expelled every last Arab from the territories they conquered in the Six-Day War of 1967. It would have been a horrible humanitarian disaster, but such would have left the Jewish State with shortened, more defensible borders, and the displaced Arabs would not have been living …

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US Must ‘Super Escalate’ to End the Standoff in the Red Sea 

Ayatollah Khamenei

The Houthis, one of multiple Iranian proxy groups operating in the Middle East, have been wreaking havoc on merchant vessels in the Red Sea for more than two months. Given that nearly 25% of the world’s maritime-traded goods must pass through these waters to get to market, the impact of the attacks on the international …

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