Authors
Francis P. Sempa
Francis P. Sempa is the author of “Geopolitics: From the Cold War to the 21st Century” and “America’s Global Role.” His work has appeared in Strategic Review, the Diplomat, Joint Force Quarterly, the Claremont Review of Books, the Asian Review of Books, the South China Morning Post, the National Interest, and other publications.

Just a few short days after a 20-year-old Pennsylvania man attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump, and after Democratic political leaders and their media accomplices expressed “horror” at the attempted assassination, urged that the political rhetoric be toned down,…

Elbridge Colby served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for strategy and force development in the Trump administration and is credited with shifting U.S. defense strategy from its focus on the global War on Terror and “small wars” to great…

When a political party, its leaders, its spokespersons, its echo chamber in the mainstream media repeat over and over again that Donald Trump is a “threat to democracy,” a “fascist,” a wannabe “dictator,” and compare him to Adolf Hitler, what…

It was announced last month that England’s King Charles has knighted British historian Niall Ferguson, the author of 16 books and numerous essays and articles on history, foreign policy, and politics, for his service to literature. Ferguson has taught at…

A little more than a year ago, Jacob Heilbrunn, the supposed “realist” editor of the National Interest was touting Joe Biden as a “vigorous leader” and “war president,” deriding critics of the president who called him “confused” and referred to him…

Most of the commentary on President Biden’s poor debate performance has focused on his chances for reelection. But that is only one side of a dangerous coin. The other side is explored by Naval War College professor James Holmes in…

According to journalist Carl Bernstein, several people “very close” to President Biden have related that the president has had 15-to-20 episodes of cognitive decline — similar to what happened during the presidential debate the other evening — during the past…

Democrats and their media allies, neoconservatives, and establishment Republicans deride the notion of an “America First” foreign policy. They distort history to trace the roots of today’s “America First” approach to foreign policy to those groups in the United States…

Willie Mays died the other day at the age of 93. He was the oldest living Hall of Fame major league ballplayer. His first MLB manager, Leo Durocher of the New York Giants, called him simply the greatest five-tool player…

Yale history professor and author of The Global Cold War Odd Arne Westad, writing in Foreign Affairs, sees dangerous similarities between the British-German geopolitical rivalry before the First World War and today’s geopolitical rivalry between the United States and China….

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