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America Can’t Surrender its Voice in the Middle East

The Middle East Broadcasting Networks’ (MBN) journalism counters anti-American narratives in a difficult and strategic region. For twenty years, Middle East Broadcasting Networks, Inc. (MBN)—one of four Congressionally authorized platforms...

Bangkok, Thailand February 24, 2024 - Thai police secure the front of the U.S. Embassy Bangkok as protesters gathered in to call help create peace in Gaza Strip and end support for Israel.

Trim Embassies. Don’t Close Them.

U.S. embassies are indispensable and should be maintained wherever possible, but intelligently focused trimming is still possible. The Department of State is determining how to reduce American diplomatic and consular...

Container port with ship.

Strengthening Economic Statecraft with USAID Reform

With USAID now folded into the State Department, the Trump administration should focus on realigning U.S. global development aid toward strategic competition with China. With USAID now folded into the...

How Politics Killed America’s Greatest Fighter Jet

The Pentagon funded the YF-22 over the cheaper YF-23 when they knew it was a far more problematic warplane—purely out of a desire to keep Lockheed Martin alive.

Donald Trump speaks from the Oval Office.

VIDEO: The Trump Administration and Africa

As President Trump reshapes U.S. foreign policy, Africa—home to a quarter of the world’s governments—faces shifting expectations and strategic uncertainties. What does Trump want from Africa, and what does Africa...

Elon Musk Is Right To “DOGE” The Pentagon

The greatest existential national security threat facing the United States is neither China nor Russia. It is, in fact, the nation’s endlessly ballooning national debt.

Elon Musk at the 10th Annual Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on April 13, 2024 in Los Angeles, CA.

The Method in Elon Musk’s Madness

Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s campaign of disruption is intended to fuel more public cynicism about the legitimacy of the federal government.  What Donald Trump and Elon Musk are doing...

Elon Musk and Donlad Trump on cell phone.

Is Elon Musk America First or China First?

The tech billionaire’s relations with President Trump could influence the administration’s China policy more than any other donor or patron. Toward the end of 2024, the SEC filed a lawsuit...

The U.S. Navy’s DOGE Nightmare Has Begun

With Elon Musk’s understanding of technology and his obvious preference to cheap but sophisticated unmanned systems, one can hope that he will soon turn his ire to America’s budget-busting carrier...

Elon Musk at conference.

100 Days of DOGE

In their attempt to create a separate power structure inside the government, Musk and his team are running the risk of bringing the government to a standstill. Who knew that...

Trump’s USAID Freeze Will Undermine Global Health and Security

Foreign aid is not charity but a strategic investment into programs that reflect American interests and our values. Hours after his return to the Oval Office, Donald Trump began implementing...

Will Elon Musk ‘Shoot Down’ the F-35 Lightning II?

Last month, tech entrepreneur Elon Musk—who was named to co-head the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)—infamously took a shot at the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II. In a post on X, the...