Fred Fleitz

Do North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs represent deterrence to protect it from an attack by the United States, defensive weapons the world can live with, or are they an existential threat to South Korea, Japan and the United States that may require the use of U.S. military force to address? These questions are being […]

The debate over President Obama’s strategy to defeat and degrade ISIS was rocked last September after more than 50 U.S. intelligence analysts working with the U.S. Central Command filed complaints with the Pentagon inspector general that their analysis was manipulated by senior officials to downplay the threat from ISIS and the al-Nusra Front (the al-Qaeda […]