Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
Former Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook discusses Iran’s deepening economic crisis amid the U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz on ‘America’s Newsroom.’
Foundation for Defense of Democracies founder Clifford May discusses President Donald Trump’s meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping and the Iranian conflict on ‘Jesse Watters Primetime.’
The Heritage Foundation’s Victoria Coates assesses whether the United States needs Chinese assistance in the U.S-Iran conflict on ‘The Bottom Line.’
Fox News contributor Michael Pillsbury interprets China’s position on Iran and the impact of CEOs on the U.S.-China summit on ‘The Claman Countdown.’
Somewhere in the Pentagon filing cabinets sits a 2017 document that reads less like doctrine and more like a warning label we ignored. The Joint Concept for Access and Maneuver in the Global Commons (JAM-GC) laid it out plainly: the United States wins wars because we can show up anywhere on earth, kick in the door, and maneuver freely across air, sea, space, and cyber. That’s our superpower. Not just firepower—access. And the bad guys figured that out.
The modern world likes to believe it has outgrown geography. Satellites circle the planet, data moves at the speed of light, and weapons can strike targets from continents away. Military theorists speak confidently about cyber war, artificial intelligence, and fifth-generation conflict conducted across digital networks and orbital platforms. Yet despite all this technological sophistication, the global economy still depends on an astonishingly simple fact of physical geography: about twenty-one miles of ocean between Iran and Oman control roughly a quarter of the world’s oil and enormous quantities of energy-related commodities such as petrochemical feedstocks and fertilizer inputs.
Monday morning greeted me with a 34 cents-a-gallon increase in gasoline prices. All gave some. Most gave a few pennies a gallon. Some gave all.