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
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
OPINION — On the eve of our most American holiday, let me wish all a hearty appetite as they carve their Roman chicken, Ethiopian rooster, […] More
OPINION — “On October 27, the Department of Defense announced that the United States will pursue a modern variant of the B61 nuclear gravity bomb, […] More
SUBSCRIBER+EXCLUSIVE REPORTING – CIA Director Bill Burns is in the Middle East as part of a Biden Administration push to ease tensions in the region […] More
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
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
OPINION – As state and non-state actors aim to disrupt elections by any means available while still affording plausible deniability, one of the newest tools […] More
OPINION – A list of proposals released last Thursday in the final report of the 12-member bipartisan Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the […] More
OPINION — “Here on the House floor, we see when extreme MAGA (Make America Great Again), rightwing Republicans don’t get their way, when they lose […] More
PRIVATE SECTOR PERSPECTIVE — The primacy of U.S. power is facing an unprecedented challenge: A strategic competition with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is […] More
OPINION — “Operations to deny adversary hostile use of space could originate in any domain and target on-orbit, ground, cyber, and/or link segments to reduce […] More
“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
SUBSCRIBER+ EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW – The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) is offering some rather overt clues about just how the country’s 18 […] More
PAJU, SOUTH KOREA – JULY 19: A U.S. soldier crossed the military demarcation line separating the two Koreas without authorization. (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images) […] More
CIPHER BRIEF REPORTING – A retired Air Force Intelligence Officer turned whistleblower testified before a House Oversight Committee on Wednesday that the U.S. government is not […] More
EXCLUSIVE SUBSCRIBER+MEMBER INTERVIEW — Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin says there is “no such thing as an overseas police station” but U.S. counterintelligence officials beg […] More
CIPHER BRIEF REPORTING – A social contract that Russian President Vladimir Putin has engineered over the decades to cement his authority may now be showing signs […] More
EXCLUSIVE SUBSCRIBER+ INTERVIEW — An old friend of Beijing returned to China this week in a move that harkens back to a time when Manila […] More
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