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The Pakistani General Running Washington’s Backchannel to Tehran

The Pakistani General Running Washington’s Backchannel to Tehran

OPINION -- As Washington and Tehran edge closer to escalation, the most critical line of communication keeping the crisis from spiraling is being run [...] More

The Nuclear Arms Race Is Accelerating — and the U.N. Looks Increasingly Powerless

OPINION – Last week, the 11th Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, currently in session at the [...] More

Congress Faces a Growing Blind Spot in the Pentagon’s Expanding Budget

OPINION -- “That brings me to a concern I want to put on the record. In addition to the billions requested for the F-35 [fighter-bomber] enterprise, [...] More

Confidence, Interoperability, and the Limits of U.S. Decision Systems

OPINION -- In recent months, U.S. policy debates have increasingly acknowledged that the decisive contests of the 21st century will not be fought [...] More

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The Intelligence Community’s Acquisition Revolution: Can Washington Move Fast Enough?

The Intelligence Community’s Acquisition Revolution: Can Washington Move Fast Enough?

OPINION -- On February 9, the CIA announced a major overhaul of its technology acquisition from the private sector. Director John Ratcliffe described [...] More

Two Fronts, One War: Why Ukraine and Iran Are Part of the Same Fight

Two Fronts, One War: Why Ukraine and Iran Are Part of the Same Fight

OPINION -- I recently had the opportunity to take part in a panel discussion on geopolitical issues at the Kyiv Security Forum in Kyiv. One of the [...] More

Getting Our Adversaries Out of Cuba Should be our Immediate Goal

Getting Our Adversaries Out of Cuba Should be our Immediate Goal

OPINION -- Since 1959, the U.S. and Cuban relationship has been defined by gray zone operations that have occasionally broken out into open [...] More

Corporate Cybersecurity Is the New Frontline of National Security

Corporate Cybersecurity Is the New Frontline of National Security

OPINION -- For decades, national security was defined by geography: borders, terrain, and physical infrastructure shaped how nations defended [...] More

Russia’s Victory Day Parade Signals Anything But Victory

Russia’s Victory Day Parade Signals Anything But Victory

Снявший голову, по волосам не плачут(When your head is cut off, you don’t cry about your hair)- Old Russian ProverbOPINION – Russia is readying for [...] More

Inside the Pentagon’s High-Stakes Nuclear Overhaul

Inside the Pentagon’s High-Stakes Nuclear Overhaul

“The unfortunate truth is that it's fallen to the lot of all of us to modernize the entire [U.S.] nuclear triad at once. Probably, in retrospect, we [...] More

Why Abu Dhabi Walked Away from OPEC After Nearly 60 Years

Why Abu Dhabi Walked Away from OPEC After Nearly 60 Years

When UAE Energy Minister Suhail al-Mazrouei announced Tuesday that Abu Dhabi is leaving OPEC – a cartel it has been a member of since 1967 – he [...] More

Britain’s Antisemitism Crisis Is Now a National Security Threat

Britain’s Antisemitism Crisis Is Now a National Security Threat

There has been yet another terrorist attack targeting Britain’s Jewish community. This time, two Jewish men were stabbed on Wednesday in Golders [...] More

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The Pakistani General Running Washington’s Backchannel to Tehran

The Pakistani General Running Washington’s Backchannel to Tehran

The Nuclear Arms Race Is Accelerating — and the U.N. Looks Increasingly Powerless

The Nuclear Arms Race Is Accelerating — and the U.N. Looks Increasingly Powerless

Congress Faces a Growing Blind Spot in the Pentagon’s Expanding Budget

Congress Faces a Growing Blind Spot in the Pentagon’s Expanding Budget

Confidence, Interoperability, and the Limits of U.S. Decision Systems

Confidence, Interoperability, and the Limits of U.S. Decision Systems

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