This article appeared in The Daily Telegraph on February 11th, 2022. Click here to view the original article. ‘President Trump is wrong.” With these words last Friday, former vice president Mike Pence drew an unambiguous red line in the fight for the Republican Party’s future. Although the battle began well before January 6 last year, when Pence […]
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This article appeared in The New York Post on January 23th, 2022. Click here to view the original article. President Biden’s first press conference in 10 months, on the eve of his inauguration’s anniversary, made news. But not the kind he wanted. Asked about Russia’s possible invasion of Ukraine, NATO’s lack of unity and the […]
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Drop the virtue signaling on democracy and put some boots on the ground in Ukraine. A Q&A with Trump’s former national security adviser. By Tobin Harshaw This article appeared in Bloomberg on December 18, 2021. Click here to view the original article. Last month, I was in Honduras for its watershed presidential election. (OK, I […]
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Western lassitude is enabling Russia’s possible total reabsorption of the former Soviet republic This article appeared in The Telegraph on November 13, 2021. Click here to view the original article. By John Bolton November 13, 2021 Short attention spans, willful ignorance, wishful thinking, and no strategic planning have preceded international debacles throughout history. That brings […]
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This article appeared in The Hill on November 10, 2021. Click here to view the original article. By John Bolton November 10, 2021 India’s nearly completed, $5.43 billion purchase of Russian S-400 air-defense systems raises serious obstacles to closer politico-military relations between Washington and New Delhi. It requires rigorous strategic thinking to avoid hampering deeper […]
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This article appeared in The Washington Post on November 2, 2021. Click here to view the original article. By John Bolton November 2, 2021 After overthrowing the Taliban government in Afghanistan in 2001, U.S. and NATO forces stayed in the country primarily to preclude the Taliban from regaining power and again providing sanctuary for terrorists […]
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This article appeared in 1945 on October 25, 2021. Click here to view the original article. By John Bolton October 25, 2021 Last week, the White House yet again corrected President Joe Biden for misstating his own Taiwan policy. The day after saying America had a “commitment” to defend Taiwan against a Chinese attack, thereby reversing the long-standing (and badly […]
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Team Biden needs a fuller strategy that includes international recognition and new regional alliances. This article appeared in The Wall Street Journal on October 21, 2021. Click here to view the original article. By John Bolton October 21, 2021 China’s threat to Taiwan is real, not hypothetical, as recent incursions into the island’s air-defense zone […]
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Instead, the Biden administration must pursue it as a component of a comprehensive national-security strategy to advance American interests. This article appeared in The National Review on October 11, 2021. Click here to view the original article. By John Bolton and Robert Joseph October 11, 2021 The Biden administration has ambitions to re-establish America’s “credibility […]
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This article appeared in The Hill on October 10, 2021. Click here to view the original article. By John Bolton October 10, 2021 Washington’s conventional wisdom held in recent years that Americans wanted to “end endless wars” around the world, particularly in Afghanistan. Public-opinion polling repeatedly found at least plurality support for withdrawing U.S. forces […]
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