Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta announced a new timeline for American combat operations in Afghanistan—or did he?

In his new book, “Phake: The Deadly World of Falsified and Substandard Medicines,” Roger Bate explores the underground trade in illegal medicines that kills over 100,000 people per year and supplants billions of dollars of real products.

Moreover, most allies haven't a clue how the pivot will manifest itself and what role they should be playing. If a "pivot" means anything, it is at the least keeping security commitments. Now Obama has made one -- helping Taiwan close the "fighter gap."

American Enterprise Institute (AEI) economist  Roger Bate shares his expertise on counterfeit drug networks that pose a growing threat to combating diseases like malaria.

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.

May 1, 2003, marked the formal end of major combat operations in Iraq, yet the past year has presented the U.S. military with challenges every bit as daunting as the march to Baghdad. How effectively has the U.S. military adapted from fighting a major theater war to a low-intensity counterinsurgency?...

This week's UN Environment Program meeting on insecticide use will surely be enlivened by the Southern African Development Community's recent decision to start producing DDT to combat malarial mosquitoes.

Local security forces do not offset the risks incurred by premature withdrawal of combat forces from Afghanistan. In fact, premature withdrawal of combat forces undermines the local security effort.