Fiscal year

December 19, 2025 | Bradley Bowman |

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...

November 21, 2025 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery |

Establishing a Cyber Force: A Defense Imperative

May 15, 2025 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery |

Deterrence Amid Rising Tensions

Preventing CCP Aggression on Taiwan

March 4, 2025 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross |

The Digital Battlefield

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

April 22, 2024 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Bradley Bowman, John Hardie, Joe Dougherty

Update on Russia-Ukraine War – status, next steps

March 25, 2024 | Dr. Erica Lonergan, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

United States Cyber Force

A Defense Imperative

September 13, 2023 | Richard Goldberg

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

September 13, 2023 | Mark Harvey, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

After the Attack

A Playbook for Continuity of the Economy Planning and Implementation

July 27, 2023 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Annie Fixler

Building Partner Capabilities for Cyber Operations

July 13, 2023 | Craig Singleton |

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

June 16, 2023 | Michael Sugden |

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...

April 18, 2023 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Thomas Plant

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.

April 15, 2023 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Jiwon Ma

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....

March 31, 2023 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Andrew Zammit, Emelie Chace-Donahue, Madison Urban

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...

March 1, 2023 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Jiwon Ma

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...

November 17, 2022 | Maseh Zarif, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

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.

October 30, 2022 | Saeed Ghasseminejad, Richard Goldberg, Tzvi Kahn, Behnam Ben Taleblu

Maximum Support for the Iranian People: A New Strategy

Introduction U.S. policy since the 2009 election-related uprising in Iran has gradually incorporated a variety of human rights related sanctions and designations to name, shame, penalize, and deter Iranian...

April 1, 2022 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery |

Congress Invests in National Cyber Resilience but Misses Important Opportunities in the Consolidated Appropriations Act

Congress’s newly completed annual appropriations bill provides significant funding increases for a number of critical cybersecurity programs, including for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security...

March 14, 2022 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Annie Fixler

Reconciliation of China bills in Congress could produce big cybersecurity wins

Excerpt Congress deserves mixed grades for its recent efforts to strengthen the nation’s cybersecurity and improve the resilience of its critical infrastructure. If Republicans and Democrats can find...

January 11, 2022 | David Adesnik |

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: January