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Will the U.S. Navy Surrender Asia's Seas? - Yoshihara & Holmes, The Diplomat

Having gone unchallenged for decades, and facing budget cuts, the U.S. Navy is in danger of losing its capability to challenge the PLA in its near seas....

The U.S. Obsession with 'Shaping' World Events - Dan Larison, The Week

Despite increasing demands for U.S. military involvement in the Syrian conflict, there is still little chance that the Obama administration will commit the U.S. to a new war in the...

U.S. Syria Action Could Sway Iran on Nukes - M. O'Sullivan, Bloomberg

Air strikes against Syrian targets, in challenging this Iranian assumption, could help address the fundamental flaw in the current effort to curb Iran’s nuclear ambitions through...

Obama's Troubling Friendship with Erdogan - Michael Rubin, NRO

Erdogan, who is now in his second decade of power and quite openly plotting for his third, has transformed Turkey from an imperfect democracy based on rule of law into an increasin...

U.S. Congress Should Clarify Authorization for War - Washington Post

The Obama administration's political and legal authority to wage war against al-Qaeda has steadily eroded. Both liberal and conservative members of Congress have challenged the adm...

Is Japan Really a Sovereign Nation? - Asahi Shimbun

Okinawa, which marked the 41st anniversary of its reversion to Japan on May 15, is posing one grave question: Does Japan really qualify as a sovereign state? A ceremony held by th...

Obama's 'New Beginning' Lies in Ruin - Peter Wehner, Contentions

People may recall that in Barack Obama’s June 4, 2009 speech in Cairo, the president promised a “new beginning” based on “mutual respect” with the Arab and Islamic worl...

Why Americans Are Snookered About War - Andrew Bacevich, WAJ

For Americans, one big lesson of the Iraq War should be this one: When policymakers and pundits purport to explain what the United States “needs to do” by resorting to ...

Only the U.S. Can Save Israel. Will It? - Larry Diamond, The Atlantic

As the world's only Jewish country celebrates its 65th anniversary, its survival still depends on one outcome: two viable states between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean....

Why The U.S. and China Won't Go to War - East Asia Forum

Even before Washington announced its official policy of rebalancing its force posture to the Asia Pacific, the United States had undertaken steps to strengthen its military posture...

Turkey's Erdogan Is Undone by Obama, Assad - Fouad Ajami, Hoover

The car bombs that killed more than 40 people last weekend in a town in southern Turkey are a reckoning for Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He had made himself party to the fi...

Gangnam Forever: K-Pop Could Invade U.S. - Eileen Hong, Korea Times

In the last 20 years K-pop has become globally recognized with acts such as Rain, Wonder Girls, and Psy creating a window of opportunity for Korea’s celebrated pop culture....

Great U.S.-Russia Convict Chess Battle - Tom Balmforth, Transmission

Forget bewigged "spies" and the impasse over Syria. Could chess and convicts take the sting out of U.S.-Russia ties? Today, 20 prisoners from the United States and Russia are sch...

First Conflict of the Post-Superpower Era - John Kampfner, Guardian

For Barack Obama indecision is now strategy: heavy-handed intervention is over. Syria's tragedy is nothing has taken its place....

The West Continues to Appease Assad - The Daily Star

Cameron's comment that no one is benefiting from the trajectory that Syria is taking is blatantly false: Everyone would appear to have an interest in this downward spiral, until th...

Obama's One-Sided 'Reset' with Russia - Mark Salter, RealClearPolitics

President Obama’s long courtship of Vladimir Putin is a persuasive rebuttal to the argument that his failures are attributable to his detached, analytical approach to politic...

Obama's Biggest Mistakes in Syria - Jeffrey Goldberg, Bloomberg

Bashar al-Assad is not the only leader who is crossing 'red lines' these days. U.S. President Barack Obama has also crossed a few. Here are three of them....

European Hawks, American Doves - Peter Beinart, The Daily Beast

Once upon a time, skittish European leaders came to Washington to warn their trigger-happy American counterparts about the dangers of war. Not anymore. Yesterday at the White Hou...

A British-U.S. Tax and Trade Agenda - David Cameron, Wall St. Journal

When times are tough, some want to put the barriers up, to look inwards, and to protect themselves from the world. But Britain and America stand for a better way. We have a preci...

Why Was $1B in Gold Sent from JFK to S. Africa? - David Yanofsky, Quartz

South Africa has an enormous mining industry, and a lot of the material leaves the country–$1.72 billion worth of precious stones and metals were exported in March according ...

Obama and Clinton's Benghazi Baloney - Michael Barone, DC Examiner

Obama did not want his theme of "Osama is dead, al-Qaida is on the run" to be undercut by an Islamist terrorist attack on our ambassador. Clinton did not want her department's den...

Has Obama Blown His Credibility & Syria? - Jonathan Mercer, Foreign Aff.

The debate about what to do in Syria has been sidetracked by discussions of credibility and reputation. But both logic and evidence prove that reputations are mostly imaginary. Oba...

China Quietly Builds an Auto Niche in Detroit - Bill Vlasic, NY Times

Dozens of companies from China are putting down roots in Detroit, part of the country’s steady push into the American auto industry. Chinese-owned companies are investing in Ame...

Make Uncovering Benghazi Truth a Bipartisan Mission - Chicago Tribune

Uncovering the truth should be a bipartisan mission: A decade go, the 9/11 Commission showed how an investigation devoted not to blame but to preventing future debacles can help Am...

Downsides of U.S. Energy Independence - Konrad Yakabuski, Globe & Mail

What is more appropriately defined as North American oil independence -- since the United States will continue to depend on Canadian and Mexican crude for decades to come -- is alm...

Pakistan Is Still an Enemy of the U.S. - Max Boot, Commentary

In foreign policy, however, there is unlikely to be much change since pretty much the entire army leadership–not just General Kayani–supports Pakistan’s existing ...

It's Time for Turkey to Intervene in Syria - Henri Barkey, The National

The Obama administration has so far refused to engage in Syria militarily although the signs are that it may now consider changing its policy, moving towards providing the rebel si...

Obama's Top Ten Insults Against Britain - Nile Gardiner, Telegraph Blogs

For the past three years I have published a list of Barack Obama’s biggest insults (including those of his administration) against America’s foremost ally, Great Britai...

Has Obama Finally Discovered Latin America? - Tim Padgett, Time

President Barack Obama is sending Vice President Joe Biden on a swing through Brazil, Colombia and Trinidad & Tobago later this month. Which means two things: First, the prospect o...

Obama Is Making a Brave Call on Syria - Gideon Rachman, Financial Times

In the west, we like our leaders tough and decisive. American presidents are meant to behave like action heroes. That notion was captured in Hillary Clinton’s campaign advertisem...

Iran and Its Western Apologists - Reuel Marc Gerecht, Weekly Standard

Those who will excuse the regime are not all intellectually flippant -- Flynt and Hillary Leverett and Trita Parsi come to mind. Nor are they Iranian-Americans like the writer and ...

Countries Lobby for More in Race for U.S. Visas - Eric Lipton, NY Times

The government of South Korea hired a former C.I.A. analyst, two White House veterans and a team of ex-Congressional staff members to help secure a few paragraphs in the giant immi...

For Eight Months the Benghazi Lies Have Continued - Boston Herald

Surely there has never been a bigger bunch of liars than the crew currently occupying the White House and the now-departed secretary of state. The steady drip, drip, drip of the B...

China Wants U.S. Out of Japan - Robyn Meredith, New York Times

A decade ago, when former President Chen Shui-bian of Taiwan was seen as ratcheting up tensions with China, U.S. diplomats assured Taipei that if China attacked the island unprovok...

Pink Line over Damascus - Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post

Israel's successful strikes around Damascus show that a Western no-fly zone would not require a massive Libyan-style campaign to take out all Syrian air defenses. Syrian helicopter...

How to Stop Iran's Takeover of Syria - Michael Weiss, NOW Lebanon

It's been edifying to see how quickly the international press has discovered that Syrian air defense systems are not quite so "formidable" as they were once described by senior Pen...

U.S. Should Push for Elections in Syria - Zbigniew Brzezinski, Time

The various schemes that have been proposed for a kind of tiddlywinks intervention from around the edges of the conflict -- no-fly zones, bombing Damascus and so forth -- would sim...

Getting to the Bottom of Benghazi - National Review

On Wednesday, Representative Darrell Issa’s House Oversight Committee convened the ninth round of hearings on the lethal September 11, 2012, attacks on the U.S. mission in Be...

The Republicans' Benghazi Obsession - New York Times

Before Wednesday’s hearing on the attack in Benghazi, Libya, Republicans in Congress promised explosive new details about the administration’s mishandling of the episod...

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