Trump’s Recent Pentagon Purge: Why December Could be the Most Significant Month of his Presidency
President Trump fired his Sec. of Defense, Mark Esper, announcing he would be replaced with former Army Colonel Christopher…
Category: Foreign Policy
Biden Has a Chance to Correct the Mistakes He Doesn’t Believe He Made in Afghanistan
2020 has been a difficult year for Afghan politics. After negotiations by Zalmay Khalilzad in February on behalf of…
Biden’s Iran Policy Could be Diplomatic Even While Facing Opposition from Democrats in Congress
TEHRAN, Iran. November 7th, 2020. Holding a metaphorical finger to the wind, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has called on…
As the World Pushes to End the Nuclear Age, Major Nuclear Powers Say No
UNITED NATIONS, New York City, U.S.A. October 22nd, 2020. The United States is issuing letters to nations telling them…
State Department Green Lights Another Arms Sale to Taiwan Hoping China Will Respond
PICTURED: A CATM-84K Standoff Land Attack Missile-Expanded Response (SLAM-ER), being mounted on an aircraft in an American airbase on…
New START Treaty Extension Remains Unsigned – US Weighs Nuclear Escalation
PICTURED: Marshall Billingslea, the current arms control negotiator for the United States, speaking at a press conference in Latvia,…
Trump Rushes to Fulfill Foreign Policy Promises Before November Elections
PICTURED: William Ruger, speaking with attendees at the 2017 Young Americans for Liberty National Convention. Photo credit: Gage Skidmore.…
U.S. Attempts to Utilize a Clause in the Iranian Nuclear Deal They Withdrew From 2 Years Ago
NEW YORK CITY, U.S. September 2018. PICTURED: Sec. of State Mike Pompeo attends a meeting in the United Nations…
With $740 Billion for Bankrolling Defense DoD Gets Another $550 Billion
PICTURED: The Pentagon, headquarters of the Department of Defense, Washington D.C. WASHINGTON D.C., July 30th, 2020. Proceedings were brought…
Trump Appoints New German Ambassador – Moves Forward with Troop Withdrawals
PICTURED: Douglas Macgregor meeting with IDF Chief of the General Staff Lieutenant General Aviv Kochavi. CC 4.0. WASHINGTON D.C.…
Russia to Cut Military Spending for COVID-19 While House Democrats Ensure $740 Billion for Pentagon
MOSCOW, Russia. July 20th, 2020. The advent of COVID-19 and a resulting fall in oil prices has forced the…
Trump Looks to Appoint Peace Advocate as Official Ambassador to Afghanistan
PICTURED: William Ruger, speaking with attendees at the 2017 Young Americans for Liberty National Convention. Photo credit: Gage Skidmore.…
Russia and US Must Reduce Nuclear Arms to Chinese Levels for Beijing to Join Arms Control Agreements
Director-general of the arms control department of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Fu Cong, told reporters in Beijing…
New 2021 Defense Budget Standouts – The Indo-Pacific and Hypersonic Missiles
PICTURED: The X-51 Waverider prototype hypersonic glide missile. The latest National Defense Authorization (NDA) for 2021 contains a lot…
New 2021 Defense Budget Standouts – The Global War on Terror
PICTURED: Aerial view of Camp Phillips at Windward Point, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The National Defense Auth. for FY 2021…
Tehran Still Willing to Make a New Deal – Asks Washington to “Apologize” First
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has said that all of Washington’s wishes of Iranian nuclear arms control could come true…
Why are Congressmen Moving to Try and Stop Trump’s Troop Withdrawals from Germany?
PICTURED: The grand scale of Ramstein Air Force Base, Germany captured from helicopter. WASHINGTON. June 18th, 2020. Congressman Eliot…
Does Trump’s Surprise Troop Withdrawals from Germany Contribute to European Security or Diminish it?
PICTURED: The grand scale of Ramstein Air Force Base, Germany captured from helicopter. President Trump’s administration announced on June…
33 Years After Iran Contra, U.S. Tries a Second Sanctions Campaign in Nicaragua
PICTURED: President of Nicaragua Daniel Ortega. Photo Credit: Cancelleria de Ecuador. CC. 2.0 WASHINGTON. May 22nd, 2020. Chairman Jim…
Trump Administration Continues to Erode Structures of Nuclear Non-Proliferation After Withdrawing from Open Skies Treaty
Statements from the Trump administration indicate that 6 months from Friday it will be withdrawing from the Treaty on…