OPINION — “The President's FY ‘26 [Fiscal Year 2026] National Defense Budget requests $1.01 trillion, which is a 13 percent increase from FY '25 [...]
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CIPHER BRIEF REPORTING – The stakes at this week’s NATO summit were sky-high – support for Ukraine, a shoring up of Europe’s defenses, and the [...]
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OPINION — “America’s defense strategy and strategic posture must change in order to properly defend its vital interests and improve strategic [...]
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OPINION — “America’s defense strategy and strategic posture must change in order to properly defend its vital interests and improve strategic [...]
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From the time of the first kinetic strike by an unmanned aircraft in October of 2001, the United States has relied heavily on remote-controlled drone [...]
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As Defense Secretary Jim Mattis concludes a nuclear-focused trip, his public backing this week of all three parts of the triad likely serves as an [...]
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“If we do a continuing resolution, we are not only not rebuilding our military, we are harming our military,” Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) told his Senate [...]
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The Congress is heading for another budget crisis as the beginning of fiscal 2018 approaches on October 1.At issue is when and how Congress will act [...]
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An effective space-based sensor network is a critical component of the U.S. ballistic missile defense system. The better the data the missile defense [...]
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Two weeks have passed since I wrote the column about the Saudi-Qatar split, and as of today the Trump administration seems still unable to get its [...]
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The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) performed a successful test of the Ground-based Missile Defense (GMD) system on Tuesday. This was the first [...]
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Defense spending across Asia has increased substantially during the past 10 years, and looks to continue growing apace into the 2020s. Nowhere is [...]
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Editor's Note: For this year’s Memorial Day feature, The Cipher Brief revisits its coverage examining the future of U.S. aircraft carriers. Some [...]
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Editor's Note: For this year’s Memorial Day feature, The Cipher Brief revisits its coverage examining the future of U.S. aircraft carriers. America’s [...]
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