Office of the Secretary of Defense

October 30, 2024 | David Rader, Adam Papa

Why the Defense Department needs a chief economist

The Department of Defense budget is growing, and the DOD is spending more money in novel industries and nontraditional areas than ever before. To ensure the DOD spends smartly in this new environment,...

January 17, 2022 | Dr. Georgianna Shea |

The Pentagon’s new cybersecurity model is better, but still an incremental solution to a big challenge

The Pentagon announced in November a new “strategic direction” for its Cyber Maturity Model Certification, calling it CMMC 2.0 and essentially admitting the first iteration was overly complex and...

January 8, 2022 | Cleo Paskal |

‘It’s time for an Indo-Pacific charter’

Common cause, common challenge, common values, common charter: Paul Giarra

April 20, 2021 | Dr. Georgianna Shea, Samantha Ravich

Re-Engineering America’s Cyber Glass House

Blackouts caused by an explosion hit the Natanz uranium enrichment site in Iran last Sunday in what appears to be an attack aimed at slowing down nuclear weapons development. Iran blamed Israel for the...

January 15, 2020 | Bill Roggio |

U.S. military buries press release that would announce killing of Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent’s emir

The U.S. Department of Defense suppressed a press release that would have announced the death of Asim Umar, the emir of Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent, because it “would complicate future negotiations...

January 12, 2015 | FDD Press Release

FDD Announces New Class of Policy Professionals for National Security Fellows Program

WASHINGTON - The Foundation for Defense of Democracies today announced its class of 2015 National Security Fellows. This group of 30 men and women are all up-and-coming policy professionals with...

November 2, 2012 | Jonathan Schanzer The New Republic |

Did Israel and the US Just Cooperate on a Dry-Run for an Iran Intervention?

Within hours of a bombing raid on a weapons factory in Sudan last month, the international media was pointing fingers at Israel. Some reports suggested that the strike looked like a dry run for a...

August 10, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Pinning Iran to the Mat

Can we learn lessons about stopping Tehran's nuclear program from a wrestling match? Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/opin

July 11, 2010 | Richard Z. Chesnoff The Long War Journal

US military begins to link Afghan Taliban to Pakistani terror groups

Within the past several days, the US military has begun to publicly identify the Lashkar-e-Taiba and other foreign fighters based in Pakistan as being a direct threat to Coalition and Afghan forc...

May 15, 2007 |

Take the Lute

Maybe there really is a newsworthy story in the appointment of General Lute as special assistant to the President for Iraq and Afghanistan. Yet the story is both more mundane and more interesting...