In Israel, Ukraine, and the Indo-Pacific, the national security interests of the United States and our allies face significant and increasingly dire threats from adversaries in Tehran, Moscow, and Beijing. These threats are linked, with Iranian weapons terrorizing both Israeli and Ukrainian civilians and a “no-limits” partnership between the Chinese Communist Party and Vladimir Putin’s…
With Congress considering policies to strengthen U.S. national security around the world and aid American allies and partners fighting for their security and freedom, FAL and its network have published a number of resources for confronting these challenges. Israel and Iran Indo-Pacific Ukraine Other Relevant Issues
By Jimmy Quinn As the 2024 presidential race heats up, a group of conservative foreign-policy experts is calling out what it says are the Biden administration’s failures on human rights, accusing the White House of going soft on anti-U.S. dictatorships. During the 2020 presidential campaign, President Biden repeatedly said that he would put human rights…
By Michael Allen and Connor Pfeiffer How can the U.S. simultaneously arm Ukraine in its fight against Russia and deter a Chinese invasion of Taiwan? It’s a false choice. A critical look at the weapons that Washington has transferred to Kyiv, what is needed in the Pacific, and when new production might become available reveals…
By Jimmy Quinn One of the fiercest ongoing debates in the Beltway foreign-policy world is the overlap between weapons that the U.S. is sending Ukraine and those that Taiwan needs to build up “porcupine”-style defenses to fight off a Chinese invasion. That’s because the degree to which there is overlap could determine U.S. priorities for…
“Foreign policy watch: As the 2024 contest heats up, we’ll keep tabs on the policy groups that are advising the candidates. One group to watch is the Forum for American Leadership, a hawkish conservative foreign policy group that will brief candidates throughout the campaign on a number of national security issues, including the fentanyl crisis and the war…
“In the meantime, groups are already forming to advise candidates on national security. The Forum for American Leadership has already created 14 working groups to mirror the directorates of the National Security Council. Those groups will aim to brief candidates throughout the campaign.”
President Biden’s official National Security Strategy, released this week, declares that we are in a “decisive decade” and that “the post-Cold War era is definitively over.” The document charts out a bold path for confronting “the existential challenge of our time.” That challenge, naturally, is the climate crisis. Presidents are required by law to publish…
By Colin Dueck On the very first day he entered office, President Joe Biden, eager to accommodate environmentalists, moved U.S. policy on climate change, energy, and the oil and gas industry in a leftward direction. The result has been a collection of executive orders and congressional Democratic initiatives that together threaten U.S. national security, domestic economic growth,…
Tying a new national security strategy focused on China and Russia to domestic priorities can become complicated when handling issues like arms control, a top security analyst said Wednesday. Speaking Wednesday in an online forum at the American Enterprise Institute, Gabriel Scheinmann, executive director of the Alexander Hamilton Society, said that cooperating with a nation like…
By Jimmy Quinn With the Biden administration expected to release a major, statutorily mandated document setting out the president’s broad-brush thinking on U.S. national security in early 2022, conservative national-security thinkers are gearing up to rebut what they anticipate to be its wrongheaded approach. In a brief, ten-page paper released last week, a group of experts from…
“Michael Allen, Jonathan Burks, Kristen Silverberg, Eric Lorber and Roger Zakheim have started the Forum for American Leadership, focusing on free trade, defense, the U.S. intel budget and advocating for an assertive foreign policy around the world. Gabriel Noronha, who worked on Iran policy at the State Department in the Trump administration, is the executive director.”
