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America Is Fighting the Wrong Drone War

Javid Ahmad

America Is Fighting the Wrong Drone War

Colin Clarke

America Is Fighting the Wrong Drone War

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

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Why Greenland is the Linchpin of the Golden Dome

Paul Miller

Why Greenland is the Linchpin of the Golden Dome

OPINION – When President Trump first proposed the purchase of Greenland, the world’s reaction leaned toward mockery. But as the strategic landscape [...] More

No Ideology: America's Deadliest Extremists

Dexter Ingram

The Most Dangerous Extremist Movement in America Has No Ideology

She Was 13. She'd Been Inside This World Since She Was 8.A week after her birthday, Audree was dead.Her mother didn't know why – not until a [...] More

The Trump-Xi Summit: A Chance to Change the Global Narrative

Ambassador Joseph DeTrani

The Trump-Xi Summit: A Chance to Change the Global Narrative

Let’s hope the May summit between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping is uplifting, giving the world hope that these great powers can cooperate [...] More

Ambassador Joseph DeTrani

Avoiding Another 9/11: 3 Key Reasons to Reauthorize Section 702

General Paul Nakasone (Ret.)

Avoiding Another 9/11: 3 Key Reasons to Reauthorize Section 702

Editor's Note: Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act was originally enacted as a post 9/11surveillance program that allows the [...] More

The Navy is changing the way it does business and its still pretty pricey

Walter Pincus

The Navy is changing the way it does business and its still pretty pricey

OPINION -- "After a rigorous, data-driven analysis, we've made the tough but necessary decision to inactivate the USS Boise. This strategic move [...] More

Walter Pincus

The Case for Reauthorizing Section 702

Rob Joyce

The Case for Reauthorizing Section 702

Editor's Note: Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act was originally enacted as a post 9/11surveillance program that allows the [...] More

Rob JoyceNational Security

The Strategic Realignment: Iran, China, and the Great Power Contest

Paul Miller

The Strategic Realignment: Iran, China, and the Great Power Contest

OPINION — The conflict in Iran is not solely the result of 47 years of unresolved tension. That framing misses a more consequential story: what is [...] More

International

Why Australia Needs a National Spy Museum

Liesl Jordan

Why Australia Needs a National Spy Museum

OPINION — Australia is entering one of the most complex and psychologically destabilizing security periods in its modern history. The ASIO [...] More

Liesl Jordan

America’s Drone Strategy Has a Supply Chain Problem

Joey Gagnard

America’s Drone Strategy Has a Supply Chain Problem

OPINION — In this issue we will discuss implications of the Drone Dominance Program, how weakness in the U.S. industrial base has been laid bare, and [...] More

Joey Gagnard

Drones Are Changing Warfare And America Isn’t Ready

Steve Blank

Drones Are Changing Warfare And America Isn’t Ready

OPINION — Drones in Ukraine and in the War with Iran have made the surface of the earth a contested space. The U.S. has discovered that 1) air [...] More

AmericasNorth AmericaUnited States

How the Iran War Is Reordering the World, Second and Third-Order Effects

Chip Usher

How the Iran War Is Reordering the World, Second and Third-Order Effects

OPINION — Five weeks into the US-Israeli war against Iran, the immediate military picture — decapitation strikes, missile exchanges, and the grinding [...] More

Chip Usher

New Presidential Executive Order Targets Transnational Cybercrime

Ken Westbrook

New Presidential Executive Order Targets Transnational Cybercrime

OPINION – The Cipher Brief broke new ground when it published my piece addressing scams as a national security issue in December 2023. Two years [...] More

Ken WestbrookTech/Cyber