While war and rumors of war are escalating under the Biden-Harris administration, America’s active-duty recruitment rates are the lowest we have seen in decades. Recovering from this shortage will be a challenge, but the next administration has a clear opportunity to rebuild America’s military dominance by focusing on not only recruitment but also retaining military families. Recruitment is down due to a […]
Iran responded early Saturday to Israel's overnight precision strikes, asserting its "inherent right of self-defense." The Iranian foreign ministry, in a statement, condemned the attack "in the strongest terms," claiming the retaliatory strikes were a “blatant violation of international law and the United Nations Charter." The ministry pointed to the ongoing war in Gaza between...
For decades, the U.S. government observed an “open investment” policy: neutrality concerning foreign investments into, and acquisitions of, U.S. companies. But the handling of the Nippon-U.S. Steel deal, according to some observers, signals a serious weakening of this beneficial policy.
Democrats are sounding the alarm that former President Trump’s harsh rhetoric in the home stretch of a tight presidential race could portend a repeat of the mass political violence that broke out among his supporters in January 2021. But national security experts say there’s reason to believe a repeat of the Jan. 6 insurrection is...
This week’s revelations that North Korean troops could within days join Russia’s war in Ukraine have raised the prospect of the U.S. and its allies getting more involved in the conflict. The Biden administration on Wednesday acknowledged that some 3,000 North Korean soldiers were training at Russian military bases. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Moscow...