Fiscal year

10 Ways the U.S. Can Strengthen Deterrence in the Taiwan Strait

U.S. Marines Moving Ahead with Israeli Interceptor Technology

The conflict with Iran revealed that the U.S. has substantial air and missile defense vulnerabilities, especially against drones. Thankfully, the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) is making progress to...

Trump Administration Requests Extraordinary $1.5 Trillion Defense Budget

After years of bipartisan failures to devote sufficient resources to defense, the Trump administration requested an extraordinary 44 percent increase in defense spending in its roughly $1.5...

Transparency and Trust

Exposing Malign Foreign Influence in Higher Education

Beyond the U.S.-Israel MOU: The Case for a Strategic Partnership Agreement

In one’s personal life and in the life of a nation, it is good to have friends. It is even better to have capable and motivated friends, especially when one confronts increasingly formidable enemies...

Establishing a Cyber Force: A Defense Imperative

Deterrence Amid Rising Tensions

Preventing CCP Aggression on Taiwan

The Digital Battlefield

How Terrorists Use the Internet and Online Networks for Recruitment and Radicalization

Update on Russia-Ukraine War – status, next steps

United States Cyber Force

A Defense Imperative

A Dangerous Strategy: Examining the Biden Administration’s Failures on Iran

After the Attack

A Playbook for Continuity of the Economy Planning and Implementation

Building Partner Capabilities for Cyber Operations

Exposing the Dangers of the Influence of Foreign Adversaries on College Campuses

Congress Should Protect U.S. Leadership in Quantum Research

The House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology heard from administration officials and academic experts last week on the importance of reauthorizing the National Quantum Initiative (NQI) Act to...

Composite Violent Extremism: A Radicalization Pattern Reshaping Terrorism

The report explains composite violent extremism (CoVE) and introduces its four subtypes: ambiguous, mixed, fused, and convergent extremism.

President’s cyber budget request is off to a good start; Congress should fill the gaps

The White House released the President’s Budget Request for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 last month, just a few days after issuing the much-anticipated National Cybersecurity Strategy....

Composite Violent Extremism: Conceptualizing Attackers Who Increasingly Challenge Traditional Categories of Terrorism

Excerpt Counterterrorism practitioners have increasingly drawn attention to acts of violent extremism which, in the words of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director Christopher Wray, “don’t...

Cyberspace Domain Operations Rely on the Cyber Workforce to Succeed

The Department of Defense (DOD) released an update last week to its plan to provide flexible role-specific training for its cyber workforce. This effort continues DOD’s successful approach to cyber workforce...

Ban These Chinese Chipmakers from Pentagon Purchases

Congress should pass a proposed expansion of the law that keeps the federal government from buying certain companies’ products.