Gary J. Schmitt | AEI Press
While al Qaeda, ISIS, and North Korea present serious problems, America's geopolitical situation is unique in that we are confronted by the rise of revisionist powers in each of the three regions seen as crucial to our own peace and prosperity: Russia in Europe, China in East Asia, and Iran in the Middle East.
By Tore Refslund Hamming, War on the Rocks: “In the past five years, only one attack in a Western country — the Kouachi brothers’ attack against Charlie Hebdo in January 2015 — can be connected to al-Qaeda.”