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A Closer Look at the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ on Defense Spending

OPINION COLUMN -- “The one Big Beautiful [Reconciliation] Bill currently making its way through Congress, in combination with [fiscal 2025] base [...] More

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The Fight for Journalistic Independence Just Got Scarier

OPINION — My first thought after reading last Friday that The Washington Post would not continue a long-standing tradition of publishing an editorial [...] More

A Nuclear War is Unwinnable, So Why Do We Keep Preparing for One?

OPINION — “We must prepare for a world where constraints on nuclear weapons arsenals disappear entirely, modernizing U.S. nuclear capabilities today [...] More

The Last Ten Yards of Hostage Negotiations

OPINION — “Based on everything we’ve been doing for these last now really six months – because starting in January, we believed and we continue to [...] More

The World According to J.D. Vance

OPINION — “For 40 years, this country has made, largely, I would say, a bipartisan mistake. It has allowed our manufacturing might to get offshored [...] More

The Senate Drives a Nuclear Spending Spree

OPINION — “America’s defense strategy and strategic posture must change in order to properly defend its vital interests and improve strategic [...] More

Six Key Words in Trump Immunity Ruling - and the Words That Were Missing

OPINION — Chief Justice John Roberts’ opinion in the Trump immunity case, released July 1, expanded extensively a President’s “outer perimeter” of [...] More

A Background Check Logjam Is a National Security Problem

OPINION — “It’s unacceptable how we got to where we are, and we need to turn this thing around…We’re eight and a half years into a three-year [...] More

Boeing Has Military Problems, Too

OPINION — “Boeing is using new, automated manufacturing processes to drill holes prior to assembling the forward fuselage [of its F-15EX fighter [...] More

FBI Threat Assessment: Foreign, Domestic and Questions About Trump

OPINION — “Domestic and homegrown violent extremists are often motivated and inspired by a mix of social or political, ideological, and personal [...] More

Russia Sanctions 101 - Via a Top White House Advisor

OPINION — “Since the start of the [Ukraine] war, the liquid portion of the [Russian] national wealth fund has fallen by nearly half. Defense outlays [...] More

Senators Take On the Navy's Top Official - and He Fights Back

OPINION — “There seems to be management problems in all these [U.S. Navy shipbuilding] programs. Some of it is changing requirements on the ships so [...] More

Inside the $95 Billion Foreign Aid Bill - and What It Took To Get It Passed

OPINION — “We have been focused on expanding the capacity of the industrial base for some time. What's in that supplemental? As I said earlier, [...] More