Alan Dowd

Trump’s 2025 National Security Strategy promises coherence and strength—but his policies reveal widening gaps between rhetoric, realism, and reality.

Trump’s 2025 NSS targets Europe, not Russia—and signals a break with America’s NATO consensus.

80 years since the Nuremberg trials, it is necessary to recall the precedent that was set in international justice at the close of WWII

Despite arguments that the US must prioritize Taiwan over Ukraine, the truth is that if the latter falls, the former will soon be next

The end of a free Ukraine portends only the further weakening of America’s system of global alliances

As a transactionalist, Trump must recognize that America’s global system of alliances benefits the US, and his presidential legacy, as much as it does the rest of the world

Those who emphasize an ‘America first’ mentality would do well to recall the many benefits NATO has accrued to the United States

Whether it’s Biden or Trump in the White House come 2025, the American-led international order deserves better

Viewed broadly, the war against Hamas is just one theater of Cold War II

America is not as divided as you would think, and not as weak either