The shocking video of the arrest of an alleged CIA agent in Moscow this week on espionage charges certainly won’t rank as one of most heralded moments in the vaunted agency’s long history of derring-do. But spying — and counterspying — happens. We may never know the whole story of this latest spy-vs.-spy case, but there’s likely a lot more afoot than the nabbing of a…

No matter where or how or by whom the Boston Bombers were radicalized, one of the important take-aways from the terrible terrorist attack is that the international militant Islamist movement is alive, kicking — and killing. It’s time we wake up and smell the jihad. The threat is bad and it’s getting worse. In fact, here’s a sordid sampling of foreign and domestic…

Our attention is focused on the terrorist attack in Boston last week, but just two weeks ago we were gripped by North Korean threats of a new Korean War and the possibility of New York’s being hit attacked by long-range missiles. While North Korean promises of thermonuclear war have faded from the news for the moment, the threat hasn’t gone away for good. The…

While unconfirmed as of this writing, it’s within the realm of possibility that there’s some sort of connection between the Boston Marathon bombers and international Islamist terrorism, including the likes of al-Qaeda. True, we don’t know at this point what motivated two young men to undertake these despicable acts of terror against innocents, but potential ties to a…

As Secretary of State John Kerry wings his way to Asia on his first trip there as our top diplomat, now is a good time to put North Korea’s dangerous game of belligerence, brinkmanship and blackmail into some much-needed perspective. Pyongyang has been threatening everything from another Korean War to a nuclear strike on US cities. It’s not likely going to do anything so…

As Secretary of State John Kerry wings his way to Asia on his first trip there as our top diplomat, now is a good time to put North Korea’s dangerous game of belligerence, brinkmanship and blackmail into some much-needed perspective. Pyongyang has been threatening everything from another Korean War to a nuclear strike on US cities. It’s not likely going to do anything so…

In its latest effort to ratchet up tensions on the Korean Peninsula, North Korea may go ballistic — literally — as soon as tomorrow, possibly launching an intermediate-range “Musudan” missile from its east coast, according to press reports. The big question is: at who or what? The “good” news is that the range of the mobile Musudan missile isn’t well-suited for…

Lost in the other news from Cyprus last week was this: A Cypriot court sentenced a Hezbollah operative to four years in jail for putting together plans last summer to attack Israeli tourists on the eastern Mediterranean island. It’s only the latest deadly Hezbollah plot in Europe over the last year — yet the European Union still hasn’t designated the Lebanon-based group…

The commander of American forces in the Pacific, Admiral Samuel Locklear, told a Boston Globe reporter last week that the most serious long-term security threat to the Asia-Pacific region is climate change. Locklear said in the interview that instability stemming from a warming planet “is probably the most likely thing that is going to happen . . . that will cripple the…

According to FOX News, Team Obama has decided to deploy 14 additional ground-based interceptors (GBI) in Alaska and California against the North Korean nuclear and missile threat, reversing itself on numbers proposed by the Bush administration. Better late than never, I suppose. Though it highlights the failure of the Obama administration’s policies toward North Korea…

When considering recent North Korean promises of devastating military strikes against the United States and South Korea, it’s important to understand that Pyongyang carries out its threats — except when it doesn’t. Despite this, it’s probably best not to take any chances. Once again, North Korea is pushing tensions in Northeast Asia to a fever-pitch. In addition to…

It’s fine to ruminate a bit on the troubling times of Hugo Chavez’s presidency, but the real question is what meeting his maker might mean for the future of Venezuela, the United States and the region. While elections are required by the Venezuelan constitution within 30 days to replace the deceased leader, the end of “Chavismo” could mean a lot — much of it good, if it…

New Secretary of State John Kerry told a German audience last week that in America, “you have the right to be stupid, if you want to be.” Ouch. That’s a pretty harsh thing for a U.S. official to say overseas about his country, but perhaps he was reflecting on Team Obama’s strategy toward the bloodletting in Syria — a conflict that has dragged on for nearly two years,…

New Secretary of State John Kerry told a German audience last week that in America, “you have the right to be stupid, if you want to be.” Ouch. That’s a pretty harsh thing for a US official to say overseas about his country, but perhaps he was reflecting on Team Obama’s strategy toward the bloodletting in Syria — a conflict that has dragged on for nearly two years,…