To halt Houthi attacks on global shipping, the United States and its allies need to respond with actions, not words, writes Hudson Senior Fellow Luke Coffey in Arab News. Senior Fellow Can Kasapoğlu detailed how to address the Houthi threat in the latest MENA Defense Intelligence Digest.

Russian and Chinese nuclear capabilities pose the greatest current threat to global security. Senior Fellow Rebeccah Heinrichs argued in the Wall Street Journal that counter-city targeting is not the answer, and explained on Fox News that only a robust modernization of America’s arsenal can meet the challenge.

After a popular backlash led to the rise of eccentric Argentine leader Javier Milei, Distinguished Fellow Walter Russell Mead, writing from Buenos Aires, warns in the Wall Street Journal that implementing the state-directed investment policies that wrecked Argentina will not fix America’s problems.

Senior Fellow Bryan Clark writes that the Navy should look at the surface fleet’s recent deterrence and diplomatic successes—from the Red Sea to Philippine fisheries—and change its acquisition plans accordingly in Breaking Defense.

Why is Pyongyang ringing in the new year with warmongering? Possibly because Kim Jong Un fears losing his totalitarian power, argues Asia-Pacific Security Chair Patrick M. Cronin in The Messenger.

BEFORE YOU GO...

With Israel’s war against Hamas terrorists at a turning point, keep up with the latest on Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East Director Michael Doran’s video podcast Israel Update. Watch or listen to the latest episode, which covers Israel’s return to judicial reform controversy and the assassination of Hamas’s West Bank chief, Saleh al-Arouri.