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Putin’s Strategic Failure: How the Ukraine War Is Eroding Russia From Within

Rob Dannenberg

Putin’s Strategic Failure: How the Ukraine War Is Eroding Russia From Within

And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck.- John [...] More

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Trump’s National Guard Plan Faces Legal Pushback and Constitutional Questions

Walter Pincus

Trump’s National Guard Plan Faces Legal Pushback and Constitutional Questions

OPINION — “I'm not going to answer particulars on something that may be in the planning process, but we definitely do have multiple layers of [...] More

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Winning the Innovation Race: Why America’s Allies Are the Key to Beating Beijing

Duyane Norman

Winning the Innovation Race: Why America’s Allies Are the Key to Beating Beijing

OPINION — Precision U.S. airstrikes against Iran’s nuclear program last June demonstrate American technological prowess built on decades of 20th [...] More

Tech/CyberAlternative Perspectives

America’s Drug Crisis: Why the U.S. Must Fight Traffickers Abroad—and Addiction at Home

Ambassador Joseph DeTrani

America’s Drug Crisis: Why the U.S. Must Fight Traffickers Abroad—and Addiction at Home

OPINION — It is the responsibility of the U.S. Government to ensure that illicit drugs do not enter the U.S. and to ensure that those countries and [...] More

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‘Show Us the Video’: Lawmakers Seek Transparency in Anti-Drug Boat Strikes

Walter Pincus

‘Show Us the Video’: Lawmakers Seek Transparency in Anti-Drug Boat Strikes

OPINION / FINE PRINT — “We have asked the Mexican government to also step up their involvement in stopping these cartels and stopping the huge amount [...] More

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AI-Powered Adversaries Require AI-Driven Defenses

John Hultquist

AI-Powered Adversaries Require AI-Driven Defenses

OPINION — The use of artificial intelligence by adversaries has been the subject of exhaustive speculation. No one doubts that the technology will be [...] More

Tech/Cyber

The U.S. Coast Guard’s Quiet Drug War Wins Amid Trump’s Caribbean Strikes

Walter Pincus

The U.S. Coast Guard’s Quiet Drug War Wins Amid Trump’s Caribbean Strikes

OPINION / FINE PRINT — “The U.S. Coast Guard announced [last] Tuesday it has seized more than 100,000 pounds of cocaine in the eastern Pacific Ocean [...] More

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Trump’s Next Test: Kim Jong Un’s Bid for Legitimacy and a Nuclear Normalization Deal

Ambassador Joseph DeTrani

Trump’s Next Test: Kim Jong Un’s Bid for Legitimacy and a Nuclear Normalization Deal

EXPERT OPINION — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is ready to do business with President Donald Trump. Over the past few years, Mr. Kim has burnished [...] More

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The Hidden National Security Risk in Smart Cities

Anna Gielas

The Hidden National Security Risk in Smart Cities

OPINION — It is worryingly easy to get hold of personal and sensitive data on American military and intelligence personnel. Earlier this year [...] More

Tech/CyberAlternative Perspectives

Why the U.S. Is Losing the Cognitive Competition

Renee Pruneau Novakoff

Why the U.S. Is Losing the Cognitive Competition

EXPERT OPINION — In order for the U.S. to successfully compete for global influence against its adversaries and to avoid a kinetic fight, we must [...] More

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Afghanistan Is Becoming India and Pakistan’s Proxy Battlefield—Again

Masoud Andarabi

Afghanistan Is Becoming India and Pakistan’s Proxy Battlefield—Again

OPINION — On Oct. 15, 2025, Islamabad and Kabul announced a 48-hour ceasefire after days of shelling and cross-border clashes around Spin [...] More

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Viktor Orban’s Russia Problem Is Becoming Hungary’s Disaster

David Kirichenko

Viktor Orban’s Russia Problem Is Becoming Hungary’s Disaster

OPINION — Hungary’s prime minister does not seem to grasp the gravity of the moment. His ally, Russia, is bleeding by a thousand cuts from Ukrainian [...] More

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Inside the Secret War: Senate Concern Over U.S. Military Strikes in the Caribbean

Walter Pincus

Inside the Secret War: Senate Concern Over U.S. Military Strikes in the Caribbean

OPINION — “Currently, the administration is waging a secret war against a secret list of unnamed groups that they will not tell us about. There have [...] More

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