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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

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How Close the Iran War Came to a Nuclear Disaster

“Nuclear facilities on both [the Iranian and Israeli] sides have been targeted. That’s where we are in this war, and that’s how far it’s escalated. [...] More

The Quiet Expansion of Trump’s War on Cartels

“The [narco-trafficking] boat strikes [in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific] aren't the answer. What we're moving for right now might be an extension [...] More

Inside Trump’s Thinking on the Iran War

“Remember this: We're being nice. I [President Trump] could take out [Iran’s] things within the next hour, we could hang up [this telephone [...] More

America’s “Exquisite Class” Weapons Shortage

OPINION — “We just concluded a very good meeting with the largest U.S. Defense Manufacturing Companies where we discussed Production and Production [...] More

The Constitutional and Strategic Fallout of Trump’s Strike on Iran

“[Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali] Khamenei, one of the most evil people in History, is dead. This is not only Justice for the people of Iran, but for all [...] More

Why Russia’s War Effort Signals Strategic Decline

“Despite claims of battlefield momentum in Ukraine, the data shows that Russia is paying an extraordinary price for minimal gains and is in decline [...] More

Defending the Homeland: Pentagon Shifts Strategy on Drone Threats

“This memorandum consolidates approximately ten separate outdated memoranda that were inadequate to address the current, complex unmanned aircraft [...] More

After New START: America Weighs a New Nuclear Strategy

“Militarily, the expiration [last Thursday] of New START [2010 Treaty with Russia] enables the United States to take parallel steps. We will complete [...] More

Inside the $35 Billion Plan to Track Hypersonic Missiles from Space

“The Department of Defense’s Space Development Agency (SDA) is developing a new space-based architecture comprised of a large constellation of at [...] More

Inside Trump’s New ‘Board of Peace’

OPINION — “Donald J. Trump shall serve as inaugural Chairman of the Board of Peace, and he shall separately serve as inaugural representative of the [...] More

The Long Arc Of American Power

OPINION — “We [the U.S.] began as a sliver of a country and next thing you know we're a continental power, and we did not do that primarily through [...] More