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The Hidden Cost of America’s War With Iran

Walter Pincus

The Hidden Cost of America’s War With Iran

“The [U.S. Naval Support Activity Bahrain] base and Fifth Fleet headquarters have been rendered largely inoperable for their original functions, with [...] More

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The Intelligence Community’s Missing Discipline

Shannon Corless

The Intelligence Community’s Missing Discipline

Economic statecraft has become a primary instrument of US national security, deployed with a frequency and ambition that outpaces the intelligence [...] More

The Thirteenth Mile: This Is What Gray Zone War Looks Like

Joey Gagnard

The Thirteenth Mile: This Is What Gray Zone War Looks Like

On the morning of October 23, the cargo ship Khoryv sent a distress call 13 nautical miles off Constanța, Romania. Territorial waters end at twelve. [...] More

Joey Gagnard

Russia Never Left the International Financial System. It Built a Way Back In.

Dawson Law

Russia Never Left the International Financial System. It Built a Way Back In.

A7’s OpenAI prompt was six words long: "Translate [name] to [language]. Answer only translated text."Developer code leaked in 2025 from A7—the [...] More

The U.S. Army’s Pacific Strategy Depends on Allies

Walter Pincus

The U.S. Army’s Pacific Strategy Depends on Allies

“We never fight alone. We've never done that. You can go all the way back to the days of Revolutionary War. The United States has never gone into [...] More

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Muhammad bin Salman’s Humbling and the Return of the Ottomans

Andy Dunn

Muhammad bin Salman’s Humbling and the Return of the Ottomans

The Houthis bloodied Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman’s nose—again—with their deadly, cruel, but effective attacks on Riyadh’s King Khalid [...] More

Andy Dunn

The Day We Cannot Choose

Richard Berry

The Day We Cannot Choose

Washington made three decisions this week, and none of them has an end date. On the night of October 14, Ukrainian units in the field found that [...] More

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How Far Should the U.S. Go to Defend Saudi Arabia?

Recent deadly attacks by Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthis inside of Saudi Arabia have raised questions about just how far the U.S. should go in helping [...] More

Middle East Expert View

The Soviet Roots of Russia’s Modern Disinformation War

Mark Kelton

The Soviet Roots of Russia’s Modern Disinformation War

Anti-Semitism, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. pronounced while repudiating an anti-Israel resolution adopted at the 1967 National Conference for [...] More

Europe’s Changing Politics and the Future of U.S. Leadership

Ambassador Joseph DeTrani

Europe’s Changing Politics and the Future of U.S. Leadership

“And now, there is war again. There is new competition between great powers. There is vulnerability, aggression, terrorism, a whole universe of new [...] More

Europe Ambassador Joseph DeTrani

What Beijing Calls Open, Washington Should Call an Operation

Brett Goldstein

What Beijing Calls Open, Washington Should Call an Operation

China is about to run the largest influence operation in history. It will not have to run it. The world will download it.EXPERT PERSPECTIVE -- Our [...] More

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America’s Military Has a GPS Problem

Walter Pincus

America’s Military Has a GPS Problem

“The Department of Defense’s (DoD) Global Positioning System (GPS) is the principal source of positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) information [...] More

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Subterranean Warfare - An Urgent DoW Need Without An Owner

Steve Blank

Subterranean Warfare - An Urgent DoW Need Without An Owner

The DoW urgently needs to organize its scattered subterranean warfare assets into a single unified organization. Ideally, a Direct Reporting [...] More