National Security & Defense

The White House is over-investing U.S. honor and credibility in an outcome that it is unwilling or unable to bring about in Ukraine. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE W e often blame the fog of war when faced with a lack of clarity about what…

President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference at a NATO summit in Brussels, Belgium March 24, 2022. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) President Biden warned that the Russian invasion of Ukraine will likely cause food shortages in some…

Left: Sen. Ben Sasse at a Senate Finance Committee hearing in 2021. Right: Sen. Chris Murphy at a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing in 2021. (Greg Nash, Al Drago/Pool via Reuters) Senator Ben Sasse (R., Neb.) and Senator Chris…

An Iran deal under Biden will be eliminated when Republicans get the chance, but that may not matter to the Iranians, who gain plenty in the meantime. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T here was speculation that earlier this week, the eleven…

‘If Japan gets in, we’ll be involved as well,’ Robert O’Brien said. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE F ormer national-security adviser Robert O’Brien predicted that Japan would come to Taiwan’s defense in the event of an attempted Chinese…

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks about authorizing a military operation in Ukraine’s Donbass region during a special televised address on Russian state TV in Moscow, Russia, February 24, 2022. (Russian Pool/via Reuters TV)…

How Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko is waging war on his western neighbors NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE B elarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko is waging war on his western neighbors, European Union members Latvia, Lithuania, and…

It appears to have struck Justice Kavanaugh as strange that President Biden is claiming that the war is over while doing things that are legal only if the war is still going on. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T o the extent President Biden’s…

New York National Guard Lieutenant Colonel William Snyder with an interpreter instructing a group of Afghan soldiers how to drive a Humvee in 2008. (Lieutenant Colonel William Snyder) ​​William Snyder still remembers the acrid smell of…

Afghan resistance fighters in the Panjshir Valley, Afghanistan, September 4, 2021. (Reuters) The Taliban claimed on Monday that they had taken control of Panjshir province, the last area of Afghanistan not under their control, despite…