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The Terms We Must Set

Richard Berry

The Terms We Must Set

On October 15, a Vietnamese state-owned tanker, the PVT Azura, departed St. Petersburg with 109,000 barrels of Russian diesel. It is due at Norfolk [...] More

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Muhammad bin Salman’s Humbling and the Return of the Ottomans

Andy Dunn

Muhammad bin Salman’s Humbling and the Return of the Ottomans

The Houthis bloodied Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman’s nose—again—with their deadly, cruel, but effective attacks on Riyadh’s King Khalid [...] More

Andy Dunn

The Day We Cannot Choose

Richard Berry

The Day We Cannot Choose

Washington made three decisions this week, and none of them has an end date. On the night of October 14, Ukrainian units in the field found that [...] More

The Soviet Roots of Russia’s Modern Disinformation War

Mark Kelton

The Soviet Roots of Russia’s Modern Disinformation War

Anti-Semitism, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. pronounced while repudiating an anti-Israel resolution adopted at the 1967 National Conference for [...] More

Europe’s Changing Politics and the Future of U.S. Leadership

Ambassador Joseph DeTrani

Europe’s Changing Politics and the Future of U.S. Leadership

“And now, there is war again. There is new competition between great powers. There is vulnerability, aggression, terrorism, a whole universe of new [...] More

Europe Ambassador Joseph DeTrani

What Beijing Calls Open, Washington Should Call an Operation

Brett Goldstein

What Beijing Calls Open, Washington Should Call an Operation

China is about to run the largest influence operation in history. It will not have to run it. The world will download it.EXPERT PERSPECTIVE -- Our [...] More

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Subterranean Warfare - An Urgent DoW Need Without An Owner

Steve Blank

Subterranean Warfare - An Urgent DoW Need Without An Owner

The DoW urgently needs to organize its scattered subterranean warfare assets into a single unified organization. Ideally, a Direct Reporting [...] More

The Sanctions We Cannot Afford

Richard Berry

The Sanctions We Cannot Afford

On the evening of Friday, October 9, the Treasury published General License 135. It authorizes the “sale, delivery, offloading and importation” of [...] More

The Future of Iran Lies Beyond the Regime

Mark Fowler

The Future of Iran Lies Beyond the Regime

The U.S. administration is pursuing its latest strategy: a naval blockade combined with aggressive “Outcast” sanctions, aiming to strangle the [...] More

How War Starts: A Warning from the Korean DMZ

Ambassador Joseph DeTrani

How War Starts: A Warning from the Korean DMZ

The current landmine incident in the Demilitarized Zone of the Korean Peninsula could escalate into conflict on the Korean Peninsula.South Korea and [...] More

Ambassador Joseph DeTrani

Election Security: Keeping Our Disagreements Our Own

Shelby L. Pierson

Election Security: Keeping Our Disagreements Our Own

About one month before Election Day, Americans deserve to know how their government is protecting elections from foreign threats. The Pentagon’s [...] More

The Pentagon’s 2027 Drone Problem

Richard Berry

The Pentagon’s 2027 Drone Problem

On September 30, at Quantico, the Secretary of War announced a four-star command for autonomous warfare. The memorandum behind it is two pages long. [...] More

Iran Calls Itself the Victim, Its Record Tells Another Story

Ambassador Joseph DeTrani

Iran Calls Itself the Victim, Its Record Tells Another Story

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian’s speech at the United Nations did not mention Iran’s history of terrorism and the thousands of innocent victims [...] More

Ambassador Joseph DeTrani