Max Boot

U.S. military strikes on suspected drug smugglers spike after a lull following Maduro's capture.

An interview with former CIA analyst John Culver, an authority on China’s military.

Trump would be wise to ignore hawkish advice and try to forge a deal with Tehran.

President Donald Trump predictably returned from his summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping without having secured help in reopening the Strait of Hormuz. Now Trump must figure out how to

US president Donald Trump predictably returned from his summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping without having secured help in reopening the Strait of Hormuz.

Israel's military is overextended, its popularity in the U.S. sinking.

‘First of all let us rid ourselves of the foolish error that with the army alone we can maintain the security of the state,” Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, warned in 1951.

“First of all let us rid ourselves of the foolish error that with the Army alone we can maintain the security of the State,” warned Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, in 1951. “Security ...

Trashing America's European partners while undermining its Asian allies' security.

The “secret sauce” of American power in the post-1945 era has been the country’s network of alliances. The Soviet Union had satrapies in Eastern Europe, but few real friends. Russia doesn’t even have satellite states anymore, aside from Belarus. It...