Confronting the current Middle East alignment
ANALYSIS/OPINION: By: James A. Lyons With the imminent defeat of the Islamic State in Mosul, Iraq and in Raqqa, its declared capital in Syria,...
Adm. James "Ace" Lyons (Ret.)
WP Post Author
A new approach to U.S. Middle East strategy
The Trump administration has a unique opportunity to implement a new strategic policy to bring some semblance of stability to...
China’s imperialism on the South China Sea
China's determined efforts over the past two decades to seize control of almost the entire South China Sea is nothing...
Undermining the military
When President Obama announced that he was going to "fundamentally transform" America, not many Americans understood the full depth of...
Free speech opponents enforce Islamic law, challenge our fundamental freedoms
First Amendment to our Constitution states, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free...
The Greatest Threat To Our National Security
When President-elect Obama declared that he was going to “fundamentally transform” America, not many Americans understood what that meant. They...
Cuba, a convenient diversion for Iran
President Obama's decision to normalize relations with the totalitarian Castro regime, with their human rights atrocities directed against their own...
Second Sino-Russian alliance shatters illusions
President Obama began his administration in 2009 believing that American restraint would encourage great-power comity and cooperation. While he may...
Sailing in uncharted Mideast waters
With an anti-war activist as commander in chief who pursues a "progressive" agenda, the result can be devastating. Clearly, the...
Taking back America
Never in my lifetime did I believe this great nation would be taken down and withdrawn from its world leadership...
Checkmate China
With the world's attention focused on the atrocities being committed by the evil Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, plus...
The fallout from foreign-policy malfeasance and nonfeasance
With the weakest national security team since World War II, it is no wonder that both our foreign- and national-security...
A Kurdish opportunity
There is no question that modern-day Iraq is a fractured state. This should come as no surprise, since its basic historical foundation...
Presidential appeasement
Just a few days after memorializing the lives of our lost heroes, President Obama made a shocking announcement that he...
Unanswered questions for Benghazi special committee to ask
Recent exposure of the deliberate lies and the false talking points used by our then-U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice on the...
Obama’s foreign-policy ‘flexibility’ seen as weakness
The administration Kabuki dance we’re witnessing featuring U.S. refusal to provide nonlethal support equipment for Ukraine is President Obama displaying...