The Freedom Chronicles, Vol. 3.2.26 The Greek historian Herodotus tells us that Cyrus succeeded to the Persian throne in 559 BC. After conquering numerous neighboring kingdoms, including Media, Bactria. Armenia and Lydia, he conquered Babylonia, whose holdings doubled the size of his empire and made him the sole ruler of what we now know as [...]
The Freedom Chronicles Shortly before our impending war with Islamist Iran, Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave a speech to European leaders for the ages. Delivered before the Munich Security Conference, his address not only elicited a standing ovation, a response unlike any in the audience’s memory, but it also moved Europe toward a resolve [...]
While the world waits to see what Trump will do about China’s close ally, Iran, it is important to note that Chairman Xi continues to purge his military. Last week, he purged the country’s most senior general, who is accused of leaking information about the country’s nuclear-weapons program to the U.S. and accepting bribes for [...]
As we await the “official” news from Trump’s upcoming meeting with the CCP in South Korea, I am reminded of the statement made in May of this year by John Moolenaar, Chairman of the House Committee on China. He did not mince words: “2027 is not an American date but a Chinese one.” By this, [...]
I recently caught up with Peter to ask him what he thought about the new North Korean nuclear missile crisis.
Count me among those who fear that the current struggle over whether this nation will allow sanctuary cities to flourish and multiply or abolish them threatens to be the single impetus which will escalate into our second civil war. Illegal sanctuary jurisdictions now number over 500. Under Obama, they were encouraged to spread like a [...]
At the outset of the first Iraq war, Colin Powell warned President Bush 41 that he saw no exit strategy for the U.S. if our forces pursued Iraqi troops from Kuwait all the way to Baghdad. He followed his warning with an admonition that has become known as the “Pottery Barn” allegory and is now [...]
I spoke to Cliff May who is the founder and President of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies which he created immediately following 9/11. FDD today is one of the nation’s most highly regarded national security policy institutes. Kelley: Do you agree with my assessment that we are losing the war on terror which, of course, is a misnomer? [...]
Before Obama’s election in 2008, in the halls of American academia, among the deans of international studies, the concepts of soft power versus hard power had been well-established bipolar modes of operation by which America conducted its foreign policy. For the academics, soft power was comprised of diplomacy such as the offering of mutually beneficial [...]
A new Gallup poll concludes that Americans hate their government much more than they did when Obama first took office. In 2009, the burden of government was ranked fourth on the list of problems faced by Americans. At that time, seven percent of those surveyed ranked burdensome government as the worst problem they faced. At [...]
