Geopolitical history shows that maritime charts follow guns, not forgettable diplomatic press releases. By discarding decades of State Department passivity, President Donald Trump can stamp his name on the Strait of Hormuz permanently. Ultimately, the sovereign power that physically occupies the rugged Musandam Peninsula dictates the geography of global commerce — leaving Washington to either […]
Few Americans know that on July 2, 1866, Massachusetts Rep. Nathaniel P. Banks introduced H.R. 754 to annex British North America. Washington had just concluded the “Reciprocity Treaty,” so Banks considered it ideal to offer markets and citizenship in exchange for soil. Congress ultimately tabled the bill, but the raw geopolitical threat forced a Canadian […]
The multiday White House extravaganza welcoming Chinese President Xi Jinping to Washington featured an opulent state dinner, a private tea meeting, and fighter jet flyovers. Watching the diplomatic pageantry, one could easily forget that the United States and China are locked in a tense, existential cold war over the ultimate military high ground: Earth’s orbit. […]
Ten years ago, I deployed to a small Soviet-era training base in western Ukraine. My unit was there to train the Ukrainian Armed Forces on NATO doctrine and introduce them to American weapons systems and intelligence assets. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion was still six years away, but the Ukrainians knew something was coming. […]
Regime change is returning to the policy discussion over Iran, not as a call for another U.S.-led intervention but as a strategic question about whether lasting regional stability is possible while the political system at the center of repeated confrontation remains unchanged. The shift is increasingly visible. At this year’s U.N. General Assembly, Slovenian Prime […]
The ruling theocracy in Iran has survived decades of sanctions and diplomacy, as well as two major wars in the past 15 months. The question facing Washington is no longer simply how much additional pressure can be applied to Tehran — it is whether external pressure alone can produce political change. Or is there an […]
Micron Technology plays a critical role in the U.S.’s effort to maintain AI superiority over China. As a global leader in high-performance memory technologies, Micron provides essential technology required for both the learning and inference functions of AI models. Furthermore, Micron is a vital national security asset due to its ongoing construction of secure semiconductor […]
