Business
Defense Firms Put Down Roots in UAE
Global defense companies are opening offices and forming partnerships with local industry in hopes of winning business in the United Arab Emirates.
Threats
SecDef: The Strategy Against the Islamic State Is Working
After a day-long conference in Kuwait, Defense Secretary Ash Carter left open the possibility of a sharpened U.S. approach against the Islamic State.
Threats
Why Arab Ground Troops Won't Defeat ISIS
It is one thing for the Egyptian air force to bomb ISIS from the air. But the ability of Arab militaries to fight an organized, motivated enemy is highly suspect.
Business
Defense One at IDEX: Western Military Leaders Seek Looser Arms Restrictions
At the world’s largest arms expo, defense leaders, military commanders and weapons makers want to make it easier to arm allies in the Middle East.
Threats
The Larger Truth of 'Violent Extremism'
Recent history reveals the president's deliberate choice of wording could be read as a statement about the nature of terrorism itself.
Policy
For the First Time, Americans Support US Ground Troops Against ISIS
The Islamic State group's brutality has dramatically shifted public opinion in the United States.
Threats
US Military Reveals Massive Plan To Attack, Retake Mosul From Islamic State
As if sending a warning to Islamic State fighters, the U.S. military reveals details of a massive attack plan to retake Mosul, Iraq.
Policy
Bob Corker’s War
How a soft-spoken southern senator who built shopping centers became one of the most important figures in the war against the Islamic State.
Policy
Why Obama Won't Talk About Islamic Terrorism
The refusal to acknowledge the aims of Islamic terrorism is central to the Obama administration’s fight against terrorism and violent extremism.
Threats
What ISIS Really Wants
The Islamic State believes it is an agent of the coming apocalypse. Here’s what that means for its strategy—and how to stop it.
Threats
Terrorism Finance Trackers Worry ISIS Already Using Bitcoin
The ability to move cash around national borders could help ISIS fund attacks in the West, just as an Al Qaeda group apparently funded the attacks in France.
Policy
What Would the Obama of 2007 Say About His War Powers Request?
Eight years ago, President Obama campaigned on a pledge to limit the use of military force. He now finds himself asking Congress for the authority to wage war.
Threats
US Vacates Embassy as Uncertainty Grows in Yemen
Employees are racing to remove weapons and documents from the compound in Sanaa, which will shut down this week.
Policy
Obama’s War Powers Request Expected to Spark New Debate This Week
New war powers for the Islamic State fight are expected any day now. They will unleash the first real debate on war in more than a decade.
Policy
Obama's New National Security Strategy Could Force Clinton to Take a Hard Line
Critics are attacking Obama's new national security strategy as weak and unfocused -- leaving Democrats on the defensive.
Threats
Why Each ISIS Video Is More Horrifying Than the Last
The terrorist group has committed many atrocities, but it focuses its propaganda power on productions that will shock the world.
Ideas
Ignore the Pundits: US-Israeli Security Relations Are Stronger Than Ever
US defense secretaries’ relationships with their Israeli counterparts have been among the closest of any around the world.
Threats
Jordanians: 'We Want Nothing Now, Only To Get Daesh Out'
Sidelined no more, as King Abdullah's military strikes ISIS for al-Kasasbeh's death, Jordanians vow, 'We are fighters. We will devour them.'
Threats
UAE Shows the Air War Against ISIS Is Almost Entirely on America's Shoulders
As allies' search-and-rescue limitations come under the spotlight, it increasingly appears that the U.S. will be the primary actor in the air war against ISIS until the very end.
Threats
Jordan’s Retaliation Is the Real Arab Awakening the Pentagon Has Been Waiting For
Suddenly for Jordan’s King Abdullah, the fight against terrorism becomes 'our war.'
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