Recruiting Westerners has become a top priority for Somalia's al Qaeda-linked terrorist group al Shabaab, worsening an already severe threat posed by the global Islamist movement.

More than three decades after the Revolution of 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran Army and the IRGC remain entangled in a rivalry which the Army — should the hitherto trend continue — is bound to lose.

The problem today is not simply that America is no longer waterboarding the Khalid Skeikh Mohammeds of the world; it is that, outside the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq, we are no longer capturing, detaining, and interrogating the Khalid Sheikh Mohammeds of the world at all.

Panelists will discuss questions regarding the role of teachers in K-12 education policy.

Employers worry more about the effects of a bad hire than about the problems of hiring someone who is competent but not exceptional.

For the U.S. to prevail in this game of chicken, it will have to accept two basic premises that it has shied away from thus far. First, that the Pakistani army is an adversary, if not an enemy. Second, that the U.S. can only win if the generals at army headquarters in Rawalpindi cease to believe that America will always blink first.

Educator Edwin J. Delattre has long been interested in character-building and the development of moral and intellectual integrity. His book Character and Cops: Ethics in Policing is considered a classic and is used in police academies all over the world.

The fifth edition of this enduring work—recently published by the...