MISSION STATEMENT

The Foundation for American Security and Freedom (FASF) is dedicated to ensuring U.S. leadership in a world of growing international threats. We know that America must lead. We analyze, communicate and advocate restoring critical alliances, rebuilding our military capabilities, and opposing isolationist tendencies domestically. We stand against great power threats, global terrorism, expansionist regimes and nuclear proliferation that endanger the security of America and her allies. 

Growing risks and challenges to America and its allies serve as powerful reminders that vital U.S. national security interests require that we help shape the international environment to defend against them.  Fortunately, we have the opportunity to protect and strengthen our values and our interests. We must resist the emerging, aggressive Sino-Russian axis, the growing nuclear threats of its outriders, Iran and North Korea, and ongoing international terrorism. We need strong alliances. We need to be a responsible alliance partner ourselves to deter enemies and potential enemies who no longer fear us; and to reverse the precipitous decline in our military capabilities. 

What will FASF do? 

FASF is committed to restoring and protecting our vital national security interests and preserving our way of life for our posterity. Through research, analysis, and publicly available studies and recommendations about foreign and defense policy, FASF strengthens our public discourse, making clear the inextricable links between strong foreign and domestic national policies. By engaging the greatest thinkers and doers in the country, we will further our national-security interests. 

We must see the world as it is. Given the increasing challenges posed by the strengthening Beijing-Moscow axis, we require fundamental rethinking of how we utilize all our tools of national power. America’s military must be agile, well-equipped, and able to respond to numerous threats simultaneously. We need a new national security strategy that includes greater reliance on asymmetrical and grey-zone warfare capabilities. Rogue states like Iran and North Korea are coming closer to establishing nuclear-weapons capability. If terrorists obtained such weapons of mass destruction, they wouldn’t hesitate to use them against our homeland or cherished allies like Israel. Cyber warfare, even from the likes of Iran and North Korea, threatens us. Who knows what future menaces will arise?  

We must recognize American exceptionalism not only in rhetoric, but in deeds. We can neither “lead from behind” nor accept the continuing spread of isolationist sentiments here at home. America must once again rise to the occasion, acknowledging the critical role we play in the world in pursuing our values and interests.  

We invite all Americans concerned about our country’s future to learn about the issues that will drive security in this century and join a distinguished group of Americans to develop and promote national security policies to further our fundamental interests.