From Claremont Review of Books Realists and nationalists are winning the current U.S. foreign policy debate. Rejecting internationalist policies to build a “liberal world order” through the spread of democracy, markets, and global institutions, they advocate a strategy that defends America’s borders and preeminence in the Western Hemisphere, calling for intervention in other hemispheres only when […]
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Privately Funded Wall Construction Begins Near El Paso
From In Homeland Security For many years, there have been several attempts to recruit donors and privately raise money to build additional sections of fencing and barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border. Historically, they have not amounted to much activity until very recently. According to FOXNews.com, a privately funded organization called “We Build the Wall” began work […]
Smugglers Using Drones to Guide Illegal Entrants
From In Homeland Security According to the U.S. Border Patrol in the El Paso sector, human smugglers are using drones to help guide groups of immigrants looking to enter the United States illegally. Drone-Assisted Illegal Entry at US Border A report by KVIA7 News indicated that in mid-April 2019, a Border Patrol agent was monitoring the […]
U.S.-Chinese Special Ops Military Cooperation
From WAR ROOM —Online Journal of the U.S. Army War College History is replete with alliances among nations who were otherwise competitive with each other. For example, World War II brought together the U.S., Britain, France, and the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany. Today, strategic competition between the U.S. and China offers similar constraints against ordinary military-to-military cooperation. However, it is not hard to […]
How Maduro’s Actions Could Influence Would-Be Dictators
From WAR ROOM —Online Journal of the U.S. Army War College “Observers figure that if the US, Mexico, or Brazil are unwilling to intervene in [Venezuela], they are presumably even less likely to care about dictatorships in countries with fewer resources.” The extraconstitutional power grab may have domino effects for other caudillos who want to retain power on the continent, despite unhappy populaces. The international community’s […]