Category: Newsletter

On February 7-9 2025, the Vandenberg Coalition worked with award-winning polling company J.L. Partners to survey 1,017 registered voters on their views on the controversial Chinese app, TikTok. As Trump’s

To America’s detriment, policy makers have neglected the challenges facing the U.S. Department of Defense. From the military recruitment crisis to persistently inadequate defense budgets, the Pentagon finds itself without…

The Arab plan adopted on a March 4 Summit in Cairo, which has no answer to the threat of Hamas, instead uses a hundred pages to take us back to

The independence of the Dalai Lama’s country has not survived, but his leadership has ensured that its people, culture, and religion have remained visible—crying out against oppression, demanding attention, and

Emboldened by its patron, Iran, Houthi drone and missile attacks have disrupted international shipping in the Red Sea since November 2023. In response, the Trump administration has launched a series

While China could grow its influence in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) over the course of the next four years, there are four principal reasons to cast doubt on

Since the Hamas attack of October 7, 2023 and Israel’s invasion of Gaza, the Palestinian Authority (PA) has frequently been mentioned as a good candidate to govern Gaza when the

As tensions rise in the Taiwan Strait following China’s latest round of large-scale military exercises, questions surrounding Taiwan’s defense readiness and deterrence in the region are once again front and

President Trump is pursuing a deal with Iran while it is at its weakest strategic point in decades. Its proxies—Hamas and Hezbollah—have been decimated by Israel. Sunni states, like Saudi

As the rogue Iranian regime charges forward in their quest to produce a nuclear weapon, the United States needs to respond with a tough and principled approach during the current