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5 days ago | 
fdd.org | Reagan Easter |John Hardie
The Ukrainian military has recently unveiled several new army corps. The development is part of an ongoing reform in which Kyiv plans to replace problematic temporary command bodies with a host of permanent corps built around its best brigades and commanders. Beginning in the 1990s, Ukraine gradually pared down the sizable military forces it inherited from the Soviet Union. Kyiv cut divisions down to brigades and eliminated army corps, with the last active-duty corps disbanded in 2015.
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5 days ago | 
fdd.org | Reagan Easter |Ivana Stradner
Every May 9, Russian president Vladimir Putin flexes his country’s military might with a grandiose, propagandistic display to mark the Soviet Union’s triumph over Nazi Germany in World War II. Putin regularly appeals to a distorted history of the Second World War to justify Russia’s revanchist foreign policy, and it is high time for the United Kingdom and the United States to counter the Russian dictator’s exploitation of the past.
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5 days ago | 
fdd.org | Reagan Easter |Ben Cohen
In nearly 30 years of writing and speaking about global antisemitism, I’ve been asked more than once if it’s possible to pinpoint when this present wave of hatred first reared its head. It’s a question that takes on added significance in the wake of the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas pogrom in Israel—the event that continues to drive the topic of antisemitism to the top of the headlines around the world. Of course, antisemitism never faded away entirely, as most Jews know all too well.
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6 days ago | 
fdd.org | Reagan Easter |Bill Roggio
The Indian government claimed that Abdul Rauf Azhar, a senior leader of the Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammad and a brother of the group’s founder, Masood Azhar, was killed during India’s retaliatory airstrikes on Pakistan on May 7.
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6 days ago | 
fdd.org | Reagan Easter |David May
There’s a university where Hamas, Hezbollah, and Houthi leaders are welcome — but Israeli academics are not. This particular ivory tower is also the largest recipient of U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) money outside the United States. Welcome to South Africa’s University of Cape Town (UCT). The NIH announced on April 21 that it would no longer provide awards to domestic recipients that engage in discriminatory boycotts against Israel.
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1 week ago | 
fdd.org | Reagan Easter |Seth J. Frantzman
On May 4, Israel’s Security Cabinet approved plans for a new offensive in Gaza. The multi-stage plan envisions the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) capturing and seizing territory in Gaza and staying for the long term. The approach contrasts with 2024 operations in which the Israeli military entered areas such as Khan Younis or Jabaliya and then left after weeks or months of fighting.
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1 week ago | 
fdd.org | Reagan Easter |Seth J. Frantzman
On May 6, United States President Donald Trump said the US would stop its attacks on the Iran-backed Houthi rebel group. The US had launched a campaign of airstrikes on the Houthis in Yemen starting on March 15. Oman, a neighbor of Yemen, said that it had helped mediate an end to the conflict between the US and the Houthis. The end of seven weeks of fighting isn’t a clear surrender by the Houthis. They appear to have weathered the storm as they have in the past against other adversaries.
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1 week ago | 
fdd.org | Reagan Easter |Seth J. Frantzman
In late April, rumors spread in Syria about an audio recording allegedly insulting the Muslim Prophet Muhammed. Within days, extremists were attacking members of the Druze minority on a university campus and also targeting Druze neighborhoods and towns near Damascus. The clashes continued into early this month. This is the second serious round of sectarian clashes in Syria since the new government of Ahmed al-Shara’a came to power after the toppling of the Assad regime on December 8, 2024.
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1 week ago | 
fdd.org | Reagan Easter |Bill Roggio
The Indian military launched a series of air and missile strikes overnight against what it described as nine terrorist training camps inside Pakistan. The operations were in response to the April 22 terrorist attack in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir that killed 26 tourists. Pakistan has responded with artillery attacks along the Line of Control that divides the Indian- and Pakistani-controlled portions of the disputed Kashmir region.
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1 week ago | 
fdd.org | Reagan Easter |Bradley Bowman |Ryan Brobst
It will be difficult for President Trump to implement his ‘Peace Through Strength’ foreign policy with a Biden defense budget. The Trump administration requested a $892.6 billion base defense budget for fiscal year 2026 on May 2, an amount well below the $1 trillion budget the administration promised.
