Steven Bucci is a visiting fellow in the Phillip N. Truluck Center for Leadership Development. Read his research.
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Lawfare has grown to be a huge problem. If a set of activists cannot win an election or get a favorable bill passed, they find… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Recently, the White House announced a massive trade deal with the European Union—one that’s set to bolster the U.S. economy, increase competitiveness, and promote American energy…. Read More
EnergyCommentary
On April 4, a Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, jury delivered a remarkable verdict: Chevron was ordered to pay $744 million in damages for purported coastal degradation… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Even though the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States continues to review Nippon Steel’s $14.1 billion acquisition of U.S. Steel, President Joe Biden… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
The Biden administration has turned to Japan repeatedly to bolster our national security, especially vis-a-vis China. But when it comes to allowing a Japanese company… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Higher education drives some conservatives and even some leftists crazy, but conservatives should support universities’ historic role in advancing national security interests. Republican leadership’s ongoing… Read More
SecurityCommentary
President Joe Biden, host of the 75th anniversary NATO Summit in Washington that ends Thursday, last week claimed to ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos that… Read More
SecurityCommentary
In another staggeringly poor choice for the nation, the Biden administration is putting concern for votes in the coming election before national security interests. Strangely,… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
The Biden administration has been praising itself in a Department of State press release for successfully bringing home American citizens who had spent years in Iran… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Spectrum, the invisible radio frequencies over which wireless communications travel, is one of the 21st century’s most crucial resources. To protect this finite resource, Congress… Read More
SecurityCommentary
The U.S. is currently heading for a major national security train wreck. Bewildering environmental policies, energy plans detached from reality, and an incomprehensible practice of… Read More
SecurityCommentary
I don’t normally write about anything that is fiction. This is a bit of an exception. Several good novels in the past few years have… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Many Americans are asking, after nearly seven months of Russia’s war on Ukraine, why the United States is involved at all. What are the hard… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The newly released surveillance video of police officers responding to a mass murder in progress at a school in Uvalde, Texas, does little to explain… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Information about what happened before and during the tragic school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, has changed continually. The bottom line is that it’s not a… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
As Big Tech gatekeepers like Google and Amazon face long-overdue scrutiny in Washington for anti-competitive practices that limit choice and reduce quality online, they have… Read More
SecurityCommentary
The nation lost a true giant on Wednesday, June 30. Two-time Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, who served Presidents Gerald Ford and George W. Bush,… Read More
SecurityCommentary
A question has been genuinely asked (on Twitter and other social media sites): “Did the narrative pushed by the media play a role in radicalizing… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Watching rioters breach the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday as members of Congress were certifying the presidential election inside was alarming and raised many questions regarding… Read More
SocietyCommentary
If space aliens came to Earth and saw what happens every day in California (and other states) regarding so-called sanctuary cities, they would leave our planet immediately,… Read More
SecurityCommentary
The Department of Defense appears to be making an unpopular move to develop a national 5G network, an idea that seemed dead on arrival following… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Since its conceptual inception, the F-35 fighter jet has been known as an extremely expensive aircraft that can fill multiple roles. This high-priced “Swiss Army… Read More
LawCommentary
The country is (rightly) laser-focused on the COVID-19 pandemic, and the president’s daily press briefings with the coronavirus task force led by Vice President Mike… Read More
Health CareCommentary
The U.S. government on March 20 finalized agreements with our neighbors to the north and south to put into place the toughest travel restrictions we’ve… Read More
SecurityCommentary
America is facing a major crisis. COVID-19 is rolling across the nation, as it has China, Japan, South Korea, Iran, and Italy. No one was ready for… Read More
SecurityCommentary
America has undergone a lot of maturing between the Vietnam War and the conflicts of the 21st century. I know, I wore a uniform during… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Anyone concerned with protecting our wireless communications systems from state-sponsored Chinese surveillance should take note of several important, and troubling, developments. Last year, China’s state-sponsored… Read More
SecurityCommentary
I don’t often quote sources from The New York Times, but in mid-November, David Brooks wrote a piece called “Fighting the Spiritual Void.” He stated… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Attending religious services is both a family tradition and a religious necessity for us. All our lives, we sat in the same seats—usually the front… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Our national holiday of Veterans Day did not start with that name. In 1918, on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th… Read More
