The Vandenberg Coalition brings you weekly roundups of news media pieces displaying honest candor in the foreign policy space.
Joe Biden Has Forgotten What Happened on Oct. 7 — but Israelis Can’t | NATO Must Bolster Front Lines: Summit Comes at Critical Time for Allies like Estonia | China’s War with Taiwan Is Already Underway | The G-7 Summit and Africa’s Infrastructure Gap | A Threat Like No Other: Russia-North Korea Military Cooperation | The Famine Has Been Canceled
We Cannot Repeat the Mistakes of the 1930s | Biden’s Ukraine Mistakes Now Threaten to Punish Taiwan | D-day, 80 Years Later, Contains Lessons for Defending Taiwan | Biden’s Secret Support for Iran: America Is Far from Israel’s Best Friend | UN Secretary General Abuses His Authority | As Hezbollah Escalates Attacks at Iran’s Behest, Israel Must Stop an ‘Unsustainable’ Assault
Putin’s Shadow War against Europe Is Intensifying | Europe Stumbles Toward Escalation With Russia Over Ukraine — Without a Strategy for Victory | Will the United States Boost Maduro in Venezuela’s Election? | Haiti Falls Deeper into Crisis | How Oct. 7 Enabled Iran to Advance Its Nuclear Program | Biden Tries to Take Victory off the Table | Without Africa, Biden’s Energy Policies Are a Win for China
What the Death of Iran’s President Really Means | Unleash the Space Force | Biden Needs to Put Hamas’s American Hostages before Politics | How to Save Universities from Chaos | The Politics of Joe Biden’s Fear | A Theory of Victory for Ukraine
Enough Mediating. America Should Deploy Its Might against Hamas | What a ‘Free Palestine’ Means in Practice | How Hamas Saved Egypt | How the Georgian Government, Once a U.S. Ally, Became an Adversary, against the Wishes of Its Protesting Citizens | The New Rules of Geopolitics in Africa
The U.N.’s ‘Palestine’ Vote: Tinker Bell at Turtle Bay | Clash of Perceptions in Gaza | Biden’s Escalation Fears Have Dangerous Consequences | Unless Ukraine and Its Allies Agree on a Strategy, Peace in Europe Could Be Brokered by the Chinese | Next U.S.-China Chip Battle Will Require More than Export Control | On Israel, Biden Is No Reagan
China Has Crossed Biden’s Red Line on Ukraine | Mexico and the United States Need to Talk About China Now | Crack Down on Anti-Semitic K–12 Curricula | The Next Six Months Will Be Critical for Moldova | The War in Gaza Hasn’t Stopped Israeli-Arab Normalization | With Chinese Warships Anchoring in Cambodia, the U.S. Needs to Respond
Columbia’s War Is about America | The Axis of Upheaval | Economic Security is National Security | Young Adults’ Dependence on TikTok Shows Why They Need Civic Education | Support for Ukraine’s Freedom Strengthens Asia’s Security
As Congress Debates Aid, Russia Is ‘Kidnapping’ Ukrainian Kids | Why You Can’t Be an Iran Hawk and a Russia Dove | The Importance of U.S. Leadership | Trade? What’s That? | How Washington Can Save its Semiconductor Controls on China
A Troubling Milestone Indeed | Iran Attacks on Israel Spur Escalation Concerns | Strategic Rulemaking for Economic Security and Statecraft | The Widening Willpower Gap | Denying Russia’s Only Strategy for Success | China’s Cartographic Antics Signal the Logic of an Expanded Alliance with India
No Substitute for Victory | Hamas’s Casualty Numbers Games | Affirm NATO’s High Performers | NATO’s Future is Churchillian, Not Wilsonian | Biden Is Dreaming It’s like 1918, but Israel Is Fighting Like It’s 1945 | Biden Loses the Plot on Israel | Red Alert in the Sahel | Russians Are Persecuting Ukrainian Baptists, Church Leaders Tell Speaker Johnson
Myths Vs Facts on Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act [House Passed TikTok Bill]
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Whatever Happened to Biden’s Iran Policy? | Will Congress Abandon Ukraine? Here’s What’s at Stake in the War against Russia. | The UN Dithers, While Israel Stands Alone | China’s Defense Budget Has Only One Trajectory: Up | A World Full of Missiles | Test Run: Russia and China
Joe Biden Should Not Abandon Maria Corina Machado | America’s Strategic Posture Is Slouching | 5 Highlights of Biden’s Most Recent Military Budget | TikTok’s Threat to America Is in a Category by Itself, It Must Be Heavily Regulated | Khamenei’s Strategy to Dominate the Middle East Will Outlive Him | Israeli-Palestinian Peace Must Reflect Reality | A Transition to War for the Arsenals of Democracies
Dilemmas of Deterrence: The United States’ Smart New Strategy Has Six Daunting Trade-Offs | It’s Not Just a Theory. TikTok’s Ties to Chinese Government Are Dangerous. | The Russian Military Has Bigger Problems In Ukraine Than Lost Tanks | France’s Macron Turns Hawkish on Ukraine After What Amounts to a Brush With Reality | Beijing’s Motivation in China-Taliban Relations | Baltics to Fight Russia From the First Mile
Congress Must Hold Biden Accountable for His Disastrous Haiti Policy | Rebuilding the Arsenal of Democracy | Will China Drive Its Electric Cars in from Mexico? | Hunting Jews: Europe OKs Banning the Practice of Judaism | China, Philippines at a Sea Fight Breaking Point
4 Myths About Ukraine that Might Sound Right But Are Actually Wrong | The ‘Cold War’ as We Know It Is a Myth, Yet Its Underlying Conflict Never Ended | Israel’s Reasonable War Aims and Strategy | China Circumvents U.S. Tariffs by Shipping More Goods via Mexico | Ending the Houthi Threat to Red Sea Shipping | Moscow’s Aggression, Moldova’s Defiance | Give Marines the Sea-Going Tools They Need To Pack a Punch
The U.N. Is Failing Women and the Cause of Human Dignity | The Taiwan Catastrophe | Most of the Money in the ‘Foreign Aid’ Bill Would Stay in the U.S. | A Most Predictable Death | The Shifting Balance of Power in the Black Sea | Worrywurst at the Munich Security Conference
America’s Maritime Policies Need a Reboot | True North: Canadian Politics, the Tory Alternative, and the United States | The Cuban Regime’s Triple Threat | China, Russia & Iran: How U.S. Can Deter and Defeat the Axis of Autocracy | National Review | Asset or Adversary? Qatar Looks Worryingly Like Both to the U.S. | The Empty Sloganeering of a ‘Two-State Solution’ | How the War in Ukraine Shapes Iran’s Strategic Gains and Ambitions
Americans Need Domestic Unity for Effective Foreign Policy | A New Strategy Can Save Ukraine | The Two-State Delusion | Countering Iranian Aggression in Jordan & Beyond | The Only Way to Stop Hamas Is to Stop Iran from Rebuilding It
How America Can Still Cripple TikTok | Biden’s Moment of Truth in Venezuela | It’s Time for a U.S.-Taiwan Free Trade Agreement | A Port Deal Puts the Horn of Africa on the Brink | President Joe Biden’s Got Blood on Hands After Appeasing Iran for Years
Towards Achieving a Better Understanding of the Nation’s Defenses | America’s Incredible Shrinking Navy | Delusional in Davos | Debt Distress on the Road to “Belt and Road” | Bougainville: The U.S. Needs a Proactive Approach Toward the Potential New Country in the Pacific
How Civics Education Can Help Solve the Military Recruitment Crisis | What to Do About Coups | Iran’s Strategy of Proxy Encirclement | Ukraine’s Long-Term Path to Success: Jumpstarting a Self-Sufficient Defense Industrial Base with U.S. and E.U. Support | Six Ways for the U.S. to Put Democracy Back on the Global Agenda in 2024
Netanyahu’s ‘Saudi Bind’ Muddles Planning for ‘The Day After’ | The United States Needs to Play Hardball With Turkey | What to Make of Kim Jong Un’s Latest Threats of War | The Biden Doctrines | Can Republicans Find Consensus on Foreign Policy? | Improving U.S. Disaster Relief at Reduced Risk and Cost
The Peace Processors Return | U.S. Navy Helo Crews Kill Houthi Assault Boat Teams After Red Sea Attack | Avoiding America’s Suez Moment | The Impact of Ending Military Aid to Ukraine: Gradual Decline, Then Collapse | How the U.S. Can Push Back Against Authoritarianism in China and Beyond
The High Price of Losing Ukraine | The U.S. Defense Industrial Base | What’s Wrong With Biden’s Venezuela Policy | Pentagon To Launch ‘Operation Prosperity Guardian’ To Reopen Red Sea Passage | America Needs a Bipartisan Shipbuilding Deal
Congressional Inaction on Defense Budget Weakens Deterrence in Asia | Why We Should be Wary of China’s Pledges of a Fentanyl ‘Crackdown’ | The U.S. Must Use Its Export Controls | The Case for Conservative Internationalism | What the U.S. Must Do to Restart Israel-Saudi Talks | The Shortest Path to Victory in Ukraine Goes Through Crimea
President Biden Must Face Reality: It’s Time to Act vs. Iran | Ukraine Aid’s Best-kept Secret: Most of the Money Stays in the U.S.A. | Stasis is Not Stalemate in the Ukraine War | The United States Must Defend Critical Infrastructure | Save the Military–Industrial Complex | China’s Economic Weakness and Challenge to the Bretton Woods System: How Should the US Respond? | China Enslaves People at Sea and We Don’t Have the Wherewithal to Stop It
The Importance of Rebuilding the ‘Arsenal of Democracy’ | Will America Lose its Next War? National Defense in a Dangerous Era | How the United Nations Became an Enabler for Terrorism | The Real Reason Iran Hates Israel | Putin’s Alignment In Middle East Should Signal To Israel It’s Time For A Change Of Allegiance | Central Asia Could Be the Graveyard of the Russia-China Alliance | Bolivia’s Descent into Deep Chaos and the Implications for the Region
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Triad Weed: How Chinese Marijuana Grows Took Over Rural Maine | Placating Xi Won’t Change China’s Behavior | Irregular Warfare: Undermining the CCP’s Dangerous and Illegal Activities in the Indo-Pacific | The Fragility of Civilization | Here’s What China’s Foray Into The Middle East Could Mean For Taiwan
Why Do Young Americans Support Hamas? Look at TikTok. | AI Is a National-Security Danger | Why the Philippines is Exiting the Belt and Road | In Israel vs. Hamas, China Backs Iran vs. America | Only the U.S. Can Restore World Order | The Fourteen Facts about US Aid to Ukraine | Iran’s Ever-Expanding Ring of Fire
The U.S. Needs A Special Envoy for Arab-Israeli Normalization | Zero Tolerance for Terrorism & Its Supporters | Blood Money: Stopping the Cash That Underwrites Terror | A Reagan Doctrine for Today | A Pacific Budget Supplemental to Prevent the Next War | The Sinking Submarine Industrial Base | How America Can Beat China In A War
A World Without American Deterrence | The Biden Administration Should Stop Funding America’s Enemies | Has Iran Compromised The Biden Administration? | Why the U.S. Must Break China’s Emerging “String of Pearls” in the Arabian Gulf | The Land That Geopolitics Forgot | Why Sending Ukraine ATACMs Will Help It Win in the Long Term
SPECIAL EDITION: Israel Under Attack | The Hamas Attack Changes Everything | Israel War: Hamas Should No Longer Have a Safe Haven—Anywhere | Hamas Terrorists’ 21st-Century Pogrom | What Comes Next in Gaza | The Yom Kippur War’s Lessons for Ukraine—and Biden | Iran and Its Network of Nineteen Terrorist Organizations on Israel’s Borders
Vandenberg Open Letter to Conservatives in Congress | Ukraine’s War of Drones Runs into an Obstacle: China | Iran Hostage Deal Has Nuclear Implications | Taiwan’s Big Stakes in Washington’s Budget Battles | Weakness is Lethal: Why Putin Invaded Ukraine and How the War Must End | The U.S. Government Should Stockpile More Critical Minerals
New Series: Countering CCP Regional Influence
How China Uses Shipping for Surveillance and Control | The West Has a Massive Chinese Spy Problem | Avoid a Sequester and Fully Fund a Preeminent Military | With Russia Distracted in Ukraine, U.S. Reaches Out to Central Asia | U.S. and Israeli Policy Aligned Regarding Saudi Arabia | Strategic Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific: U.S. and Indian Perspectives | Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict: What to Know About Nagorno-Karabakh
Rethinking Geopolitics: Geography as an Aid to Statecraft | The U.S. Must Help Curb Cartel Violence in Mexico | Why the U.S.-Mexico Relationship Could Get Even Worse | Iranian Drone Proliferation is Scaling Up and Turning More Lethal | A Renewed Axis: Growing Military Cooperation Between North Korea and Russia
Perseverance and Adaptation: Ukraine’s Counteroffensive at Three Months | By Skimping on the Budget for Competition with China, Washington Makes War More Likely | Rob Malley’s Legacy of Failure: Undermining American Interests in the Middle East | The China-India Border | Japan Fisheries Become China’s Newest Geopolitical Target
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