Ideas
Without More Tests, America Can’t Reopen
And to make matters worse, we’re testing the wrong people.
Ideas
The Vermont National Guard’s Great Experiment
A few weeks ago, the state's Guardsmen got an impossible assignment. And then they pulled it off.
Ideas
We Need an Atlantic Charter for the Post-Coronavirus Era
This moment presents a once-in-a-century opportunity for American leaders to wrest a better future.
Threats
Inside the Wild Final Week of the Acting Navy Secretary
How it all fell apart for Thomas Modly in seven days that included a two-plane, 50-hour trip to chastise a fired skipper to his sailors aboard a COVID-stricken aircraft carrier.
Ideas
A New Statistic Reveals Why America’s Coronavirus Numbers Are Flat
Few figures tell you anything useful about how COVID-19 has spread through the U.S. Here’s one that does.
Ideas
No Military Has Done More for Corona-Stricken Allies Than Germany’s
The Bundeswehr has been flying supplies to, and medevacing patients from, its European neighbors.
Ideas
Haircuts in a Time of Coronavirus?
There have been too many confusing messages during this crisis. Senior military and civilian leaders should be enforcing social distancing as much as discipline, and with one voice.
Science & Tech
SPECIAL REPORT: The Problem With Coronavirus Models Is How We Talk About Them
Despite what political leaders want them to say, COVID-19 models will become less predictive exactly when we need them most.
Ideas
Don't Be Fooled. Trump’s Cuts to WHO Aren’t About the Coronavirus
Republicans have been hating on international organizations for decades. This is just a convenient excuse to take another shot, and it harms American security.
Ideas
The Coronavirus Shows How US ‘Diplomacy’ Is Anything But
Absolutist, America-first approaches isolate us and make us less safe.
Threats
Did the Coronavirus Escape from a Chinese Lab? Here’s What the Pentagon Says
Gen. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, directly addressed ‘rumor and speculation’ that COVID-19 is a made-in-China weapon of war.
Ideas
The US Should Help Iran Get the Coronavirus Under Control
Easing sanctions will help confront a global pandemic and win back some goodwill from ordinary beleaguered Iranians.
Business
Pentagon Orders 60 Machines that Disinfect Desperately Needed N95 Masks
Each Battelle-made machine can clean up to 80,000 masks per day, allowing healthcare workers treating coronavirus patients to reuse them up to 20 times.
Science & Tech
How the Coronavirus Forced the Pentagon to Improve Its IT — and Quickly
New teleworking capabilities — hastily installed to help DoD get work done at home — will stick around after the virus subsides.
Policy
Republicans Seek to Punish China for Coronavirus as Trump Waffles
“Having the relationship I have with China is a good thing,” Trump says. But Republicans say China needs to “pay a price.”
Ideas
Ep. 66: The 1918 flu and the U.S. military
How the U.S. military was battered by, and slowly learned from, the influenza pandemic of 1918.
Ideas
Where is NATO? And Where is Trump?
The virus is destroying economies and paralyzing societies in ways Russian military planners could only dream.
Science & Tech
Pentagon Supercomputers Puzzle Out How to Safely Airlift Coronavirus Patients
And that's just one of the various pandemic-related problems that Defense Department supercomputers are chewing on.
Ideas
Trump Doesn't Know How to Safely Reopen the Country. Here Are 3 Ways to Do It
The president isn't talking about America's need to vastly expand testing and tracking — and the tradeoffs that might require.
Policy
Congress Hears Options—And Concerns—for Using Smartphone Data to Fight Coronavirus
Other countries have been using various forms of location- and proximity-tracing to slow the spread of the disease, with widely varying levels of privacy protections.
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