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National Security Starts at Home — Not on the Battlefield

OPINION – The current conflict with Iran highlights a longstanding, core premise that national security comes from visible instruments of power - [...] More

NATO’s Fractures Are Not Its End

OPINION — For much of its history, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has been portrayed as a unified military bloc bound by common values [...] More

Iran’s Long Record of Terror and a Long-Delayed Response

OPINION – Over the years, Iran has been responsible for killing hundreds of Americans and, most recently, for the killing of thousands of Iranians. [...] More

America’s Drone Future

OPINION — America is entering a future with millions of drones in our airspace. As the federal government works to determine how to manage what will [...] More

The Next Battlefield Is Perception, Not Territory

OPINION – The Gray Zone is no longer a peripheral space between war and peace. It has become the primary arena in which strategic advantage is tested [...] More

Down But Not Out: Iran’s Axis of Resistance

OPINION — When HAMAS attacked Israel on 7 October 2023, Iran and its partners around the Middle East—collectively known as the Axis of [...] More

America Is Digitally Fragile — and Our Adversaries Know It

OPINION — America has entered a moment in which it is fundamentally more vulnerable than at any point in modern history. For the first time, the [...] More

Defining Victory in the Iran War

OPINION — Two weeks ago, in the first hours of the war, I listed several possible scenarios for the outcome. No one can confidently know where this [...] More

Inside Trump’s Thinking on the Iran War

OPINION — “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

China Holds Annual Two Sessions Political Meetings-NPC

China's Military: Five Lessons from the Iran War

It may seem early to be drawing lessons from the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, but one of the world’s most powerful militaries has already reached [...] 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

Iran: War, the Abraham Accords, and the Psychology of Its Leadership

OPINION – As the war between Iran and America (plus Israel) enters its second week, a close examination of its asymmetric and higher-order effects is [...] More