The FBI during the Obama Administration has stopped many would-be attacks, but it is still a work in progress.

Our national security would be better served if the United States captured al-Asiri and kept him alive for questioning, so we can find out what he knows.

Warfighting is becoming more risky as authoritarian regimes modernize their forces. If the United States wants to retain the ability to respond successfully to crises across the globe with a leaner and more cost-effective force, then our leaders must recognize that maintaining control of the air is the starting point for U.S. military supremacy.

Chinese strategists are thinking how to win a nuclear war. What is the U.S. doing?

At a time when many NATO countries, including the United States, are drawing down their forces, Georgia has just added another infantry battalion. This brings the total number of Georgians deployed to Afghanistan to nearly 1,700. Georgia has now surpassed Australia as the largest non-NATO contributor of troops to the coalition’s campaign.

If there is one success story since 9/11, it has been the efforts to combat terror finance. If military action is sometimes akin to conducting surgery with an axe, efforts to dry up sources of funding are like wielding a scalpel.

Despite increasingly tough talk about the importance of Asia, the Obama administration’s preview of its fiscal year 2013 defense budget proves that it is a “pivot” in name only. 

President Obama and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's new defense strategy is a “declinist” strategy for an administration all too willing to accept the waning of American hard power and influence in the world.