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The U.S. Has 40,000 Troops in the Middle East

The U.S. Has 40,000 Troops in the Middle East

CIPHER BRIEF REPORTING -- Recent U.S. strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities propelled the 40,000 American forces in the region into the spotlight [...] More

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The Senate Drives a Nuclear Spending Spree

OPINION — “America’s defense strategy and strategic posture must change in order to properly defend its vital interests and improve strategic [...] More

Boeing Has Military Problems, Too

OPINION — “Boeing is using new, automated manufacturing processes to drill holes prior to assembling the forward fuselage [of its F-15EX fighter [...] More

Audits show the Pentagon's Numbers Aren't Completely Adding up

OPINION — “Because of the [Defense] Department’s global scale, we have three million people on our payrolls; a health-care system that serves more [...] More

Senator Tuberville: A One Man National Security Threat

OPINION — “For months, Senator [Tommy] Tuberville [R-Ala.] has said, if individual nominees are brought up for a vote one at a time, he will be fine [...] More

The Pentagon Needs a Real Budget, Not Stop-Gap Solutions, says top DoD official

The Pentagon Needs a Real Budget, Not Stop-Gap Solutions, says top DoD official

CIPHER BRIEF REPORTING — With President Joe Biden and top Republican lawmakers sitting down together this week in the hopes of averting an historic [...] More

It's Time To Rethink Aerial Warfare

OPINION — “The Air Force we have employed for the last 20 or 30 years is not the Air Force we need to succeed in the environment we are facing today [...] More

Leak Questions Begin To Center Around A Cell Phone

Leak Questions Begin To Center Around A Cell Phone

CIPHER BRIEF REPORTING - A wall of small lockers, replete with keys and combination locks, stands just inside the Pentagon – one of many where, upon [...] More

What is the Pentagon doing with record R&D Appropriations?

OPINION — House and Senate conferees on their own, upped the Defense Department’s fiscal 2023 research and development appropriations to $140 [...] More

The Cost of Not Bringing the Pentagon into the Post-Cold War Era

OPINION — We are in a new kind of warfare with Russia and a little-noticed House Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee hearing last Tuesday [...] More

The Pentagon's 'All Hell Breaking Loose' Scenario for Climate Change

The Pentagon's 'All Hell Breaking Loose' Scenario for Climate Change

The Pentagon often wargames future scenarios for when 'all hell breaks loose' with the idea of training for the worst-case scenario. Secretary of [...] More

Are We on the Brink of an Encounter with China?

OPINION — On the morning of Tuesday, July 7, FBI Director Christopher Wray told a Hudson Institute audience, “The greatest long-term threat to our [...] More

It's Been Over 300 Days Since a Pentagon Press Briefing

For about six months now, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has used her briefing room so little that officials might as well turn [...] More