The West’s Weapons Problem: Growing Threats, Dwindling Stockpiles
SUBSCRIBER+EXCLUSIVE REPORTING — As the U.S. and NATO deepen their involvement in a pair of major global conflicts, western nations face a critical security challenge: […] More
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It’s Complicated: The Use of Race in Military Academy Submissions
OPINION — “We can’t blow past racial tension in the military…There have always been racial tensions in the military. They have lessened, but they are […] More
Pentagon Looking for Recommendations on F-35
OPINION — “Since early October, the F-35 [jet fighter] program has delivered surge support to Israel. Israeli users are achieving exceptional mission capability rates and […] More
Keep an Eye in the Sky for U.S. Missile Defense
OPINION — “We’ve looked extensively at the Ukraine conflict and I can tell you, the use of drones and how we’re seeing drones being utilized […] More
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Audits show the Pentagon’s Numbers Aren’t Completely Adding up
OPINION — “Because of the [Defense] Department’s global scale, we have three million people on our payrolls; a health-care system that serves more than nine […] More
Senator Tuberville: A One Man National Security Threat
OPINION — “For months, Senator [Tommy] Tuberville [R-Ala.] has said, if individual nominees are brought up for a vote one at a time, he will […] More
Conflict is One Part History, One Part Petraeus Memoir
OPINION — David Petraeus and Andrew Roberts are getting lots of attention for their outstanding new book, Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine. And […] More
Training for a Combat Ready Force in Space
OPINION — “We used to fly satellites a long time on orbit. We weren’t thinking about combat attrition. Likewise, we weren’t thinking about space operations […] More
DoD’s Replicator Drone Concept Builds on Lessons Learned in Ukraine
“Small, smart, cheap, and many” is the way Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks describes the characteristics of the drones that the Pentagon intends to put […] More
Rethinking how the Pentagon spends its money is Mission Critical
OPINION — “Operation and maintenance and military personnel funding [in the Defense Department] typically must be obligated in the year for which they are appropriated. […] More
The Real Value of the Troops-to-Teachers Program
OPINION — In 1992, Congress passed legislation in the fiscal 1993 Defense Authorization Bill that required the establishment of a five-year program “to assist eligible […] More
The Pentagon Needs a Real Budget, Not Stop-Gap Solutions, says top DoD official
CIPHER BRIEF REPORTING — With President Joe Biden and top Republican lawmakers sitting down together this week in the hopes of averting an historic government […] More
The Pentagon’s Cyber Personnel Issues Need More Attention
OPINION — The Army, which seeks to double the size of its cyber forces over the next five years, is already short-staffed in two key […] More
What is the Pentagon doing with record R&D Appropriations?
OPINION — House and Senate conferees on their own, upped the Defense Department’s fiscal 2023 research and development appropriations to $140 billion. That’s $10 billion […] More
How the U.S. Military is Thinking about Supporting its Own
OPINION — “First, and foremost, we support the men and women who serve in the United States military in this bill. Most specifically, we serve […] More
Abundant Promise and Challenge in Deep Tech
EXPERT Q&A — The 2022 National Defense Strategy, which the DoD released in October, commits to promoting deep tech R&D in areas including directed energy, hypersonics, integrated sensing, […] More
Does China Have the Military Wherewithal to Match its Ambitions?
OPINION — Last Tuesday’s Pentagon released 2022 Report on Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China deserves a closer look on subjects […] More
Deep Tech Dominates Future Trajectory of Commerce, National Security
EXPERT ANALYSIS — Deep tech ventures have steadily gained stature as keystones of future economic and national security success. This sector nevertheless faces stiff challenges. […] More
What the Joint Chiefs Chairman thinks about a Great Power War
OPINION — “There are a lot of lessons learned coming out of the Ukrainian war. There’s lessons learned for Taiwan. There are lessons learned that […] More