No ISIS to be Seen in 2018!

Jim Geraghty

President Barack Obama, July 6, 2015, describing U.S. military efforts against ISIS: “This will not be quick. This is a long-term campaign. ISIL is opportunistic and it is nimble.”

The headline, this morning:

ISIS has lost 98 percent of the territory it once held -- with half of that terror group's so-called "caliphate" having been recaptured since President Trump took office less than a year ago, U.S. military officials said Tuesday.

The latest American intelligence assessment says fewer than 1,000 ISIS fighters now remain in Iraq and Syria, down from a peak of nearly 45,000 just two years ago. U.S. officials credit nearly 30,000 U.S.-led coalition airstrikes and regional partners on the ground for killing more than 70,000 jihadists. Meanwhile, only a few thousand have returned home.

The remaining ISIS strongholds are concentrated in a small area along the border of Syria and ...

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Jay Nordlinger

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Jonah Goldberg

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Victor Davis Hanson

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Kyle Sammin

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Don’t Go Bowling Alone: Recommitting to Community in 2018

Slade O'Brien

‘Americans of all ages, all conditions, all minds constantly unite.” When French historian Alexis de Tocqueville visited the United States in the 1830s, he came away fascinated with the...

GOP Business Tax Cuts Force Other Countries to Compete

Dan McLaughlin

The Republican tax plan has a lot of moving parts, but its centerpiece is a major, long-term cut in corporate taxes. American businesses have been eagerly anticipating these cuts, and 2017’s...

Snow and Steel: The Battle of the Bulge, 1944-45

Peter Caddick-Adams

"[Caddick-Adams] illuminates the Battle of the Bulge until he has run out of facets. He layers context and connections with an inclusive style. Both the reader who knows nothing or little of this battle and the maven steeped in Bulgeiana will come away...educated and sated. Snow and Steel is a treasure."
- Michael Dolan, Senior Editor, World War II Magazine

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