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What military members need to hear from their leaders now
Policy guidance, to be sure—but also timeless messages that transcend administrations.
Paula Thornhill
March 14, 2025
What military members need to hear from their leaders now
Policy guidance, to be sure—but also timeless messages that transcend administrations.
Paula Thornhill
March 14, 2025
Trump’s coercive approach risks driving Latin America into China’s arms
Short-term wins should not be mistaken for long-term gains.
Daniel DePetris and Jennifer Kavanagh
March 13, 2025
There’s a tanker-sized gap in this vision of the Air Force’s future
A recent Mitchell Institute study gives dangerously short shrift to global mobility.
Mike Minihan
March 7, 2025
Don't cut this key driver of technological advantage
Defense-related research and development at America’s universities has helped make the U.S. military the best in the world.
Abigail Robbins
March 5, 2025
By halting Ukraine aid, Trump courts personal defeat
There’s still time to avoid emboldening America’s enemies—and a humiliation that dwarfs his predecessor’s Afghanistan withdrawal.
John Hardie and Mark Montgomery
March 4, 2025
Trump’s plan to slash the federal workforce isn’t the first, it’s just the worst
The triple-meat-cleaver approach to workforce “reform.”
Tom Shoop
February 23, 2025
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To China, DeepSeek is more than an app—it's a strategic turning point
Beijing views the AI tool as a breakthrough that reinforces its strategic autonomy and reshapes the U.S.-China balance of power.
Tye Graham and Peter W. Singer
February 21, 2025
How Trump could productively reshape the transatlantic defense relationship
If rearming Europe and ending the war in Ukraine deters China, all the better.
Alexandra de Hoop Scheffer
February 13, 2025
The future of military logistics is predictive
A recent commander of Army Materiel Command says the war in Ukraine illuminates the path to data-driven sustainment.
Charles Hamilton
February 12, 2025
Teach how to think, not what to think
Professional military schools should not go overboard in interpreting the SecDef’s anti-DEI memo.
Paula Thornhill
February 11, 2025
Trump must keep arming Ukraine if he wants a good peace deal
Europe must do its fair share, but it cannot carry the burden alone.
Mark Montgomery and John Hardie
February 7, 2025
Trump’s tariffs fit a growing global trend of hardball migration diplomacy
Such diplomacy works both ways, but richer countries by and large have the upper hand.
Nicholas R. Micinski
, The Conversation
February 3, 2025
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February 2, 2025
Let's talk about the next US-Israel military-assistance agreement
I helped negotiate the current one. It's high time to get started on its successor.
Daniel B. Shapiro
January 31, 2025
It's time for a new Key West agreement
Airpower, air defense, Marines’ role—all need revisiting, three-quarters of a century after the seminal roles-and-missions pact.
R.D. Hooker, Jr.
January 24, 2025
Trump wants a faster security clearance process, too
But can he avoid politicizing it? On Day One, he stripped clearances from people he doesn't like and created a temporary end-run for people he does.
Lindy Kyzer
January 21, 2025
As the US and China race to the Moon, loopholes in space law could allow conflict
The prospect of “space water wars” is nearer, timewise, than the prospect of providing clean drinking water to everyone in the developing world.
Gbenga Oduntan
, The Conversation
January 7, 2025
Lone-wolf attacks have become a hallmark of post-caliphate ISIS
The group's propaganda inspired the New Orleans attack, which proceeded without direct operational support.
Sara Harmouch
, The Conversation
January 3, 2025
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Assad’s fall lays the ground for wider peace—if the US can seize the moment
A key will be reshaping the role of the Kurdish militants in Syria.
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