John Lenczowski

IWP Chairman Emeritus Owen T. Smith passed away on April 11, 2023. The piece below is written by Dr. John Lenczowski, IWP Founder, President Emeritus, and Chancellor. Is it possible to be sorrowful but also wear a smile?  That is how I feel when I think of our dear departed Chairman Emeritus, Owen Smith.  Owen…

Communist China represents a mortal threat to our nation. It is a threat that is designed to disarm intellectually and psychologically, corrupt, and ultimately own America’s political and foreign policy decisionmakers. The Chinese Communists have a long-term strategy to replace the United States as the Global Superpower. They call it the Hundred Year Marathon –…

Secretaries Rex Tillerson and James Mattis recently wrote that the U.S. is not seeking regime change in North Korea. Depending on whether they meant it or not, this policy has enormous implications for the success of their putative policy, which is to remove the North Korean nuclear threat.

North Korea is in a cold war with the United States and South Korea. Despite Pyongyang’s nuclear saber-rattling and the failure of diplomacy for over two decades, we have restricted ourselves to two options: economic sanctions and military means, such as deterrence, missile defense and threats of preemptive strikes. 

It is hard to summarize the life and works of a man as extraordinary as Michael Novak, who passed on to his reward a few days ago.  Amidst the collection of reviews of his contributions to philosophy, social criticism, economics, and religion, I can only add a few reflections about my perspectives on his work…

For many years, we have faced a crisis in of leadership the consequence of which is a failure to address strategically our nation’s internal vulnerabilities and external threats. U.S. national security policy has consisted of serial tactical actions that mostly address symptoms of problems and not their causes. This is why we have failed to…

The Intelligencer, the quarterly journal of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers, published as its lead article in this quarter’s issue a piece by IWP founder and president entitled “Attention to Information Warfare and Active Measures is Long Overdue.”

The hacking attack of Sony Corp. and the compromising of its intellectual property should send a wake-up call to American business. If Sony can be hacked, so too can our companies that make defense technologies. This attack reveals that the very innovations that give us our competitive edge in the world, both commercially and strategically,…

Now that we are distracted by the war against the Islamic State, what should the U.S. do in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine — in a way that deters future aggression and encourages regional peace?

The following text is an introduction by John Lenczowski to the September 2014 edition of Denial and Deception, the student newsletter of The Institute  of World Politics.  Denial and Deception is produced by the IWP Student Government Association.  To inquire about receiving a copy of this newsletter, please contact sga@iwp.edu.   In its inaugural year,…