Columns and Op-Eds

OPINION / ANALYSIS — The world is speeding up. Adversaries such as China are seeking to remake global power structures and compete with the United [...] More

OPINION — “As service chief, we all have, you know, a dual obligation to make sure that the force can do what the combatant commanders [...] More

OPINION — Recent news of another audacious hack against the US critical infrastructure and interests overseas—this time from the Chinese-based “Volt Typhoon” group-underscores the ongoing [...] More

How to Look Before you Leap from Government to the Private Sector This is part 2 in a 3-part series on transitioning your professional skills [...] More

OPINION — “We’re engaged in an intense competition with China across many areas, but it’s not in our interest for that competition to end in [...] More

OPINION — In the global techno-competition, the Department of Defense (DoD) has finally fielded a tool to incentivize America’s capital markets to invest in the [...] More

OPINION — The Office of the National Cyber Director successfully led the development of the new National Cybersecurity Strategy. Now, the office is missing a [...] More

OPINION — At least a few times a month, government employees looking to make the jump to the private sector ask about my transition, which [...] More

OPINION — The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (USASMDC) Technical Center has its primary offices at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, although it has other [...] More

OPINION — Many years ago, I was involved in a sensitive exfiltration operation at CIA, where our team rescued a source and his family from harm’s [...] More

If Ukraine does not defeat Russia in the coming six months, the West is likely to pressure President Volodymyr Zelensky to negotiate with Russian President [...] More

OPINION — “The Air Force we have employed for the last 20 or 30 years is not the Air Force we need to succeed in the [...] More

OPINION — A major buildup of U.S. and NATO fighting units and equipment has taken place in Eastern Europe and the Baltic nations, while most [...] More

OPINION — Back in late February, four Boeing B-52H strategic bombers from the 23rd Expeditionary Bomb Squadron (23rd EBS), based at Minot Air Force Base, [...] More

OPINION — The unauthorized release of classified information and the subsequent arrest of Jack Teixeira has raised important questions. Why does the Air National Guard [...] More

OPINION — Today, it is not the phone companies but those that deal in data that connect the world. Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are leading [...] More

If Pakistan’s army and government continue to block regional and national elections, they will increase the scale of Imran Khan’s eventual victory. Fear of Imran [...] More

For want of a nail the shoe was lost, for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the [...] More

OPINION — The logic behind Saudi Arabia’s latest diplomatic maneuver was clear. Riyadh faced a major threat from the Iran-led axis, and when the U.S. [...] More

OPINION — Having dealt with the investigation of, and fall-out from, Edward Snowden’s treachery while I served as CIA’s Chief of Counterintelligence (CI), the ongoing [...] More

OPINION — As information emerges as to the possible origins and extent of the leak of highly sensitive intelligence materials produced within the Pentagon, significant effort must [...] More

OPINION — Following his recent visit to Moscow, where China’s President Xi Jinping held lengthy meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin, President Xi stated in [...] More

OPINION – “Considering the strengthening of Russia as one of the leading centers of development in the modern world and its independent foreign policy as [...] More

OPINION – Russia’s arrest of Wall Street Journal journalist and US citizen, Evan Gershkovich, on espionage charges is the latest example of the Russian Federal [...] More