Dov S. Zakheim

After nearly two months of internal soul-searching that resulted in what can only be termed unnecessary delay, President Joe Biden finally agreed to permit Ukraine to employ long-range ATACMS again…

On Nov. 17, after nearly two months of internal soul-searching that resulted in what can only be termed unnecessary delay, President Joe Biden finally agreed to permit Ukraine to employ long-range ATACMS missile systems against Russian targets, initially in the Kursk region that Ukraine seized earlier this year.

There is little prospect that the Gaza conflict will end any time soon.

A new migration of refugees is the last thing Syria’s neighbors need.

Even those who wish to focus solely on a possible conflict with China should recognize that Beijing has allies who almost certainly would come to its aid.

As President-elect Donald Trump and his team prepare to take office, a major debate is taking place regarding the degree to which the U.S. should maintain its nearly 80-year military presence in Europe.

Sweden and Finland’s recent accession to NATO offers the U.S. and its allies a new vector to complicate the work of Russian military planners.

There probably was less to Russia’s nuclear threats than the Biden administration made of them.

There probably was less to Russia's nuclear threats than the Biden administration made of them; the president and his team took those threats far too seriously. Consequently, they deterred themselves and delayed sending critical advanced weapons systems for which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urgently pleaded for more than two years.

Neither of these scenarios is likely. And Trump's concern about the Far North is a legitimate one; he is right to seek a more robust defense against potential Chinese or Russian operations in that region. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has signaled that he is prepared to discuss these concerns with the incoming president. And there is much that Denmark and other NATO allies can do, if they so wish, to bolster the alliance's defenses in Greenland.