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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

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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

Human vs. Machine: Operational Realities from Ukraine’s Frontline

A global debate is underway over how much human involvement should be required when artificial intelligence is implemented in military operations. [...] More

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

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

Pakistan’s Terror Landscape Continues to Threaten South Asia

In March 2025, an elderly cleric with a long history in Pakistan’s jihadist circles stood before a gathering at Markaz-e-Taiba and called for “jihad [...] More

Why the Navy’s Next Battleship Faces Major Hurdles

“The Navy and Coast Guard need to demonstrate that the approach to these [shipbuilding] programs is not a short-term deviation followed by returning [...] More

America Is Fighting the Wrong Drone War

For two decades, U.S. drones hunting terrorists across the mountains of South Asia were the symbol of American military power: precise, lethal, and [...] More

Half Measures and Maximum Risk in Iran

Over the past month, U.S. and Israeli operations have killed Iran’s senior leadership, destroyed over 155 naval vessels and roughly 300 ballistic [...] More

The Pentagon’s $54 Billion Bet on Autonomous Warfare

The Department of Defense does not always announce structural shifts loudly; often, it buries them in the dense columns of budget lines where only [...] More

Anthropic Mythos - We’ve Opened Pandora's Box

EXPERT OPINION -- For a decade the cybersecurity community was predicting a cyber apocalypse tied to a single event - the day a Cryptographically [...] More

America’s Cyber Strategy Has a Budget Problem

The threat from cyberattacks has never been more acute, but there is reason to worry America is not rising to the challenge. It is not the lack of a [...] More

How Extremist Groups Are Sharing a Global Media Strategy

In the private sector, we analyze competitors to understand where they excel, so we can improve our approach. With this same mindset, I reviewed how [...] More