It’s Time for a 21st Century NSC-68

It is time to dust off the strategic maps of the early 1950s and place them on the walls of Pentagon and State Department offices. It is time to place...

Francis P. Sempa

10 10.08.2022

The U.S. Needs the Mature Realism of Walter Lippmann

As our country deals with the foreign policy challenges of China’s bid for global dominance and Russia’s aggression in Ukraine, it could use a...

Francis P. Sempa

10 13.06.2022

Brett Stephens Says Biden Should Channel Truman on China-Taiwan – Really?

Brett Stephens is The New York Times’ resident “conservative” – which roughly translates into an opinion columnist who isn’t part of the...

Francis P. Sempa

10 03.06.2022

Time for Strategic Clarity on Taiwan

There is a debate about whether to end the U.S. policy of “strategic ambiguity” toward the island of Taiwan and replace it with strategic clarity....

Francis P. Sempa

20 01.06.2022

What Would America's Two Greatest Statesmen Think of NATO?

As the Cold War wound down in the early 1990s and the threat from the Soviet Union receded, the reason why the North Atlantic Treaty Organization...

Francis P. Sempa

50 19.05.2022

China’s Belt and Road Initiative is a Geopolitical Offensive

Ever since China launched its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), some Western analysts have portrayed it as a geopolitical offensive designed to increase...