Manning the Ramparts

Courage, Strength, and Optimism

Xi’s ominous warning to Trump

Sean Durns · January 10, 2025 1:00 pm

Courage, Strength, and Optimism

Aid to Gaza at serious risk of terrorist diversion

Beth Bailey · January 10, 2025 12:00 pm

Community and Family

War with China and the ghosts of Iraq and Afghanistan

Peter Laffin · January 10, 2025 11:00 am

Courage, Strength, and Optimism

Trump can pressure the Russian economy to get Putin negotiating

James Rogan · January 10, 2025 9:00 am

The Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Gettysburg (CG 64) steams in the Mediterranean Sea, Dec. 15, 2024.

National Security

End the appeasement

James Rogan · January 10, 2025 9:00 am

National Security

Trump should cut off fake major non-NATO allies

Michael Rubin · January 10, 2025 8:00 am

Courage, Strength, and Optimism

Trump’s African opportunity

Aleksandra Gadzala Tirziu · January 10, 2025 7:00 am

Courage, Strength, and Optimism

Trump should get tough again on chemical weapons states

Andrea Stricker · January 10, 2025 6:00 am

Courage, Strength, and Optimism

Washington should unleash Israel on the Houthis

Sean Durns · January 9, 2025 1:00 pm

A Houthi soldier stands on board of the Israeli Galaxy ship, which was seized by the Houthis, in the port of Saleef near Hodeidah, Yemen, Sunday, May 12, 2024.

Courage, Strength, and Optimism

Houthis precipitated US friendly fire incident

Beth Bailey · January 9, 2025 12:00 pm

Courage, Strength, and Optimism

Who lost Latin America?

John Roberts · January 9, 2025 11:00 am

This photo released by the U.S. Navy show a guided-missile submarine

Courage, Strength, and Optimism

Saving the sinking submarine industrial base

James Rogan · January 9, 2025 9:00 am