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U.S. Warship Production in Crisis as China’s Navy Surges Ahead

U.S. Warship Production in Crisis as China’s Navy Surges Ahead

OPINION - The American military shipbuilding industry, which serves as the backbone of the U.S. Navy’s warship production, is grappling with a [...] More

Vladimir Putin Has Reasons to be Nervous

OPINION - On the surface, Russian President Vladimir Putin projects calm and strength, as was evident as he hosted a Victory Day parade in Moscow’s [...] More

What Hamas’ Attacks – and Aristotle – Can Teach Today’s Intelligence Chiefs

OPINION - The Hamas surprise attack against Israel on October 7th, 2023, made clear that traditional challenges for intelligence, most importantly [...] More

The Enduring Value of HUMINT in Countering Russia and China

OPINION — We are in a high-tech surveillance, cyber espionage, and big-data era and it would be simple to assume that old-fashioned human [...] More

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What if the U.S. Walks Away from Ukraine?

What if the U.S. Walks Away from Ukraine?

OPINION - The Vice President of the United States, JD Vance, said recently that unless Ukraine’s government agrees to the U.S. proposal that allows [...] More

Expert Q&A: The U.S. Takes On the Mexican Cartels

Expert Q&A: The U.S. Takes On the Mexican Cartels

EXPERT INTERVIEW — The Trump administration is prioritizing going after Mexican drug cartels as a key national security objective. It has designated [...] More

Facing Threats in the ‘Fourth Era’ of American Counterintelligence

Facing Threats in the ‘Fourth Era’ of American Counterintelligence

OPINION — In their article “An All-of-Society Approach to U.S. Counterintelligence,” Calder Walton and Greg Levesque noted the comprehensive nature [...] More

To Defeat Iran’s Proxies in Iraq, the U.S. Should Use an Old Adversary

To Defeat Iran’s Proxies in Iraq, the U.S. Should Use an Old Adversary

OPINION — The real war will begin where the last one never ended: Iraq. With President Donald Trump back in office and reaffirming his pledge to [...] More

Conservatives of America: Putin Is Not Your Ally

Conservatives of America: Putin Is Not Your Ally

OPINION — American conservatives be advised: Vladimir Putin does not share your values and is not your friend. You may be tempted to regard the [...] More

Expert Q&A: What is the Actual State of China’s Nuclear Force?

Expert Q&A: What is the Actual State of China’s Nuclear Force?

EXPERT Q&A — The Pentagon has regularly warned in recent months about China’s rapid nuclear buildup, a potential sign of Beijing preparing for a [...] More

What Thucydides Tells Us About 2025 Superpower Relations

OPINION — “It is not your enmity that harms us so much as your friendship, which would be interpreted as evidence of our weakness, while your hatred [...] More

After Trump-Putin Call, New Fears In Ukraine

After Trump-Putin Call, New Fears In Ukraine

EXPERT Q&A — The news that Russian President Vladimir Putin had agreed to a limited ceasefire in its war against Ukraine – a halt to attacks on [...] More

Oman’s Double Game in Yemen Has Dangerous Consequences

Oman’s Double Game in Yemen Has Dangerous Consequences

OPINION — For more than three decades, Oman has served in the role of mediator for the resolution of disputes in Yemen. This began after north and [...] More

Trump and Europe’s Intelligence-Sharing Problem

Trump and Europe’s Intelligence-Sharing Problem

Trump and Europe’s Intelligence-Sharing Problem

OPINION — President Trump’s recent decision to halt intelligence sharing with Ukraine has presented Europe with an urgent problem. Not only did the [...] More

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