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Mike Kofman and Ryan brought out the mics to discuss the pressing issues in the war between Ukraine and Russia. They focused ...

Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s recent visit to three Southeast Asian countries drew widespread headlines — not only for diplomatic pageantry but also for its ...

James Kraska is Charles H. Stockton professor of international law and chair of the Stockton Center for International Law at the U.S. Naval War College and John Harvey Gregory lecturer on world ...

A Broken Clan Uprising Al-Shabaab’s resurgence would have seemed unlikely a year or two ago. In mid-2022, an uprising against al-Shabaab by the Macawiisley — a clan-based armed group — backed by the ...

As often happens, however, updating the policy did not fully address three myths and misunderstandings that had built up over time: First, there is a myth that the directive prohibits either some or ...

Within months of the Cuban Missile Crisis, weapons designers at Los Alamos National Laboratory began engineering what would become the longest-serving and most adaptable weapon in America’s nuclear ...

Justin Johnson spent over a decade working on defense budgets and policy on Capitol Hill and at the Heritage Foundation before spending four years in a variety of senior positions in the Pentagon from ...

Autonomy in Software and Hardware Makes Readiness Possible It is clear that intelligent systems are changing how militaries fight across the spectrum of conflict. Advances in artificial intelligence, ...

A European Architecture for Modern War Having an architecture that can detect, positively identify, and accurately track and geolocate mobile and static targets at a long range and that can transmit ...

Over the course of the last 22 years, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey has fought and endured a great deal in order to remain in power. Court challenges, corruption investigations, close ...

Memo Item No. 1: Use Other Transaction Authorities You shall use Other Transactions according to specific and quantifiable targets and justify decisions for the preference of more traditional ...