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James StavridisForeign Policy |
With the fall of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, yet another vicious proxy of Iran has been defeated, his execrable regime in ruins. In the Gaza...
When I was a young Navy officer in the early 1980s aboard a Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser, the USS Valley Forge, we pulled into an uncommon...
Vladimir Putin is suffering grievous manpower losses as a result of his illegal and immoral invasion of Ukraine. He has lost around 200,000 killed,...
We are at a dangerous precipice in the Middle East. Richard Haass, former president of the Council on Foreign Relations, told me Wednesday that it...
Today Afghanistan is on a rocket ride to the ninth century. A victorious Taliban is imposing draconian restrictions on women — denying them...
This weekend, President Joe Biden is hosting the three other national leaders of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or Quad, a loose grouping among...
The Balkans are complicated. And the tendency is always to ignore those nations — until they erupt, as they have done reliably over recent decades....
A year into Israel’s fight against Hamas, it has become clear that the military “center of gravity” — the most important element of the...
Israel is at yet another strategic crossroads. The nation was viciously attacked last October by an implacable terrorist group. Its military response,...
Summer may be fading, but things are heating up in the South China Sea. With China claiming essentially the entire water space — which is half the...
It has been close to a century since the last invasion of Russia by another sovereign power. That was Hitler’s Germany in June 1941, and it did not...
I first met Nicolás Maduro about 15 years ago, when he was vice president of Venezuela — a lackey of the strongman Hugo Chávez — and I was...
On Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu became the only foreign leader to address the US Congress four times, one more than Winston...
This month, there was an important gathering of major geopolitical actors in the capital of a founding member of their alliance, which is also a...
Ukraine was rightly the major focus at this week’s North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit in Washington. And as the meeting’s communiqué...
This should be a victory lap by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The alliance is holding its 75th anniversary summit in Washington, will name a...
For more than eight months, the Houthis — an Iranian-backed proxy group based in Yemen — have bedeviled the global shipping industry. The majority...
My first job after graduating from the US Naval Academy in the late 1970s was as the anti-submarine warfare officer on a new Spruance class destroyer....
Having spent a lifetime in the military, I am often asked, “Admiral, what keeps you awake at night.” There are certainly many things to worry...
With the addition this year of Sweden and last spring of Finland to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the Baltic Sea has been dubbed a “NATO...
There are plenty of disagreements between Beijing and Washington — from Taiwan to human rights to aiding Russia — but the most immediately...
Now that the US House of Representatives, acting in an unusually bipartisan way, has finally passed a $61 billion aid package for Ukraine, the big...
Over the weekend, a coalition force that included Israel, the US, UK, France, Jordan and other partners thwarted a significant air attack on Israel by...
I generally hate sports analogies, mainly because many people who don’t follow the world of athletics won’t get the point. But as I think about...
Are we back to fighting the Global War on Terror? The attack in a Moscow concert hall that killed 144 people last month should be a wake-up call to...
Throughout Russia’s history, tsars looked for ways to dominate what they called the “near abroad” of their sprawling empire. In today’s world,...
Two Russian flag officers — a general and an admiral — were accused last week of war crimes and had warrants issued for their arrests by the...
There are two significant maritime conflicts underway today. One is in the Red Sea, where Iranian-backed Houthi terrorists are effectively attacking...
It’s been a tough week for Ukraine. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy replaced the popular leader of his military, General Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, with the...
Last fiscal year, all of the US armed forces other than the Marine Corps and the tiny Space Force failed to hit their recruiting goals. The Navy...
Late last fall, a high-level regional meeting for the nations of the Pacific Ocean was held in the tiny Cook Islands. As the summit’s attendees...
Kim Jong Un, the mercurial leader of North Korea, has suddenly announced that his nation will cease any efforts at reconciliation with South Korea....
Today, the Department of Defense is releasing an important new document: the National Defense Industrial Strategy. Billed as a follow-on to the Joe...
A series of brazen attacks in the Red Sea and North Arabian Sea by Yemen’s Houthi rebels against merchant shipping and US Navy warships have roiled...
Ready for some good geopolitical news as 2023 concludes? Last week, the uniformed military leaders of China and the US spoke on video for the first...
Pity poor Volodymyr Zelenskiy. He comes hat in hand to Washington, a downcast look in his eye, begging his strongest ally for the wherewithal to...
A nation that few Americans could find on a map, the oil-rich South American country of Guyana, is in trouble. It has a large and aggressive neighbor,...