Articles

Forty years ago, President Ronald Reagan unveiled the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). As long as nuclear weapons exist, the United States would maintain credible deterrence against its nuclear rivals, and President Reagan made sure of that. He believed it was unwise and wrong to leave Americans vulnerable to nuclear attack if deterrence failed. He understood that active…

This article was written by IWP student Logan West. Hungary’s critics ignore the country’s real-world military-industrial buildup and humanitarian aid support provided to Ukraine. A rather poorly-formed argument questioning Hungary’s loyalty to NATO has emerged in recent months over its opposition to Russian sanctions and calls for negotiations with Moscow. Some have even called for…

As a society, we need to ask ourselves why many people’s first instinct is to find pleasure in the sexual exploitation of another person. A Canadian woman recently came under investigation for attempting to coerce a group of Ukrainian women whom she had taken in as refugees to perform sex acts online. Unfortunately, this story is not…

The title here is one of the most famous (infamous?) statements ever made in the history of world politics. It was said by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain on September 27, 1938 in reference to the growing British anguish over German Chancellor Adolf Hitler’s ambition to take Czechoslovakia. In retrospect, it characterized the foreign policies…

Psychotherapists work together to help Ukrainian refugees deal with trauma. New York City-based psychotherapist Anya Lukianov is a second generation Ukrainian-American with expertise in complex trauma. Her background gives her uncommon insight into how to support refugees from the Ukraine War who’ve come to the United States. Lukianov is project coordinator of the Refugee Support Project…

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…

Inspired Success Magazine recently interviewed Mitzi Perdue, an IWP Fellow at the Center for Intermarium Studies. In the interview, Ms. Perdue discusses the situation in Ukraine and what can be done to help. Read the interview

Above: A counter-attack by Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces supported by T-34 tanks near Playa Giron during the Bay of Pigs invasion, 19 April 1961. First, a bit of perspective. While the Bay of Pigs invasion can properly be called a “fiasco,” one must remember that seventeen years earlier, the United States supervised the greatest seaborne…

  In 1775, in a Richmond church, Patrick Henry gave the reason for the American Revolution and, subsequently, the explanation for any American political independence in the first place. “Give me liberty or give me death” was described by one man in the audience (Thomas Marshall, father of the first Chief Justice, John Marshall) as…

In the view of former Green Beret Ryan Hendrickson, Ukraine is today the largest minefield in the world. The malign impact of this new reality not only has global repercussions, but it will also extend for decades into the future. “Much of the conflict in Ukraine today revolves around landmines,” Hendrickson explains. Millions of these…