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The Future of War Is Now: What Washington Needs to Hear from the Battlefield

Bryan Pickens

The Future of War Is Now: What Washington Needs to Hear from the Battlefield

OPINION — The February snow was over a week old but still piled heavy on the roads and sidewalks of Independence Avenue, the kind of stubborn [...] More

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The War You Can’t See: Gray Zone Operations Are Reshaping Global Security

EXPERT PERSPECTIVE -- In the middle of the night, with no witnesses, a single ship flagged out of Hong Kong drags its anchor across the Baltic Sea. [...] More

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Eighty Years On, Can the UN Meet Its Mission?

Ambassador Joseph DeTrani

Eighty Years On, Can the UN Meet Its Mission?

OPINION — The 80th ordinary session of the United Nations ended on September 8, 2026. During this year, the UN will have an opportunity to help [...] More

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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian (R) speaks during a press conference after arriving at Mehrabad Airport in Tehran, Iran on September 27, 2025

Defiance Meets Desperation as Iran Faces Fresh UN Sanctions

EXPERT INTERVIEW – The United Nations has reimposed sweeping economic and military sanctions on Iran, ten years after lifting them under the 2015 [...] More

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Decoding Global Reactions to Trump’s Victory
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Decoding Global Reactions to Trump’s Victory

DEEP DIVE — It was, as Axios reporter Zachary Basu put it, “the most astonishing, gravity-defying comeback in the history of American politics.” But [...] More

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DEEP DIVE: How Trump and Vance Would Deal With Global Hot Zones

DEEP DIVE: How Trump and Vance Would Deal With Global Hot Zones

SUBSCRIBER+ EXCLUSIVE REPORTING – Whoever wins the November 5 U.S. presidential election will face an almost unprecedented set of global security [...] More

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America, Ukraine and the Illusion of an Isolationist Choice

Gregory Sims

America, Ukraine and the Illusion of an Isolationist Choice

OPINION — In 2022 Russia launched its full-scale military invasion of Ukraine, a big and bloody war between the two largest countries in Europe with [...] More

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Taiwan's Election Offers Strong Lessons on Disinformation

Walter Pincus

Taiwan's Election Offers Strong Lessons on Disinformation

OPINION — Taiwan’s Presidential election last Saturday took place amid widespread concerns that China would use Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven [...] More

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Containing the North Korean Nuclear Threat will not be easy in 2024

Ambassador Joseph DeTrani

Containing the North Korean Nuclear Threat will not be easy in 2024

OPINION / EXPERT PERSPECTIVE — On December 18, 2023, North Korea successfully launched a solid fuel, road mobile Intercontinental Ballistic Missile [...] More

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Section 702 Delivers Stronger U.S. National Security

Gen. Joseph Votel (Ret.)

Section 702 Delivers Stronger U.S. National Security

OPINION — In 2011, I took command of our counter-terrorism forces, and the most prolific and dangerous threat we faced at that time came from Al [...] More

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Keep an Eye in the Sky for U.S. Missile Defense

Walter Pincus

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 in that [...] More

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Chinese and Russian Space Pursuits Are Picking Allied Pockets

Andrew Borene

Chinese and Russian Space Pursuits Are Picking Allied Pockets

OPINION — India’s breakthrough lunar landing showed that our free world economies are in an age of healthy research, experimentation, and growth with [...] More

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Information is the Most Important Tool in the new War for Truth

Gregory Sims

Information is the Most Important Tool in the new War for Truth

OPINION — The first step to winning a war is recognizing you’re in one. The world’s democracies are finally waking up to the waves of malign [...] More

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