Why Congress Should Tear Down USAGM’s Firewall
As US adversaries clog global airwaves, US-funded media should advance US interests around the world.
Office of the Secretary of Defense
Biotech Battlefield
Weaponizing Innovation in the Age of Genomics
Monographs
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,...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
‘It’s time for an Indo-Pacific charter’
Common cause, common challenge, common values, common charter: Paul Giarra
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
Defense
Arms Control and Nonproliferation
China’s Military Aims
Japan Remains the Cornerstone of the Pacific
Countering the Iranian Threat in the Persian Gulf
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...
Op-eds
Maximum Pressure 2.0
A Plan for North Korea
Monographs
Lessons for the Cyber Battlefield from the Early Nuclear Era’s Single Integrated Operating Plan
Monographs
Kim Jong Un’s ‘All-Purpose Sword’
North Korean Cyber-Enabled Economic Warfare
Monographs
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...
Press Releases
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...
Op-eds
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
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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...