The Pentagon announced Tuesday that Poland has been selected to host Europe’s first dedicated maintenance hub for the Patriot air defense system’s Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) missiles. Once...
Russian strikes on Black Sea shipping are probing NATO’s tolerance for attacks on allies. The US and Europe must reinforce the region.
The Islamic Republic of Iran delivered a wakeup call to the U.S. Navy regarding the service’s ability to clear mines. The still-contested Strait of Hormuz demonstrates that mine clearing under fire is...
Many Americans can picture the movie Top Gun’s dogfights, but cyber battlefields and their stresses are harder to envision. The majority of personnel work long shifts in front of computer monitors in...
The Pentagon is mobilizing to defend November’s elections. Yet, in some respects, the Pentagon’s hands are tied. U.S. law allows foreign governments to direct propaganda at American audiences without...
For decades, the U.S. military treated space largely as an enabler of power on Earth. Satellites helped troops communicate, guided precision weapons, and provided intelligence. Today, those systems are...
How completely safe we believed we were before September 11, 2001.
A quarter century on, we need to understand what happened and what is still happening
Since its inception, US Cyber Command has struggled to find its place within the US military.
On August 29, the BBC reported that the US was planning to end military support to the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) Peshmerga military force. The report comes as the US is withdrawing forces...
The Pentagon’s review of U.S. force posture in Europe has many NATO allies asking questions about the future of America’s military footprint on the continent, even as CIA Director John Ratcliffe traveled...
Turkey’s Expanding Stake in America’s Munitions Base On Aug. 12, ProPublica documented what the Pentagon’s inspector general had already confirmed in July: a Texas plant built...
Russia’s war against Ukraine is the first real-world test of how to master a battlefield overwhelmed by data, exposing how quickly modern forces must receive, process, and share information to survive....
Iran is reading American service members’ social media feeds to deadly effect. The fact is that not all intelligence must be gleaned from secret, closed sources for it to be effective, and Tehran...
A power vacuum threatens the Middle East
The United States and its allies are still fine-tuning how to operate together in space. During the last week of June, U.S. and other Five Eyes personnel convened at Vandenberg Space Force Base for...
The United States produces the most technologically advanced weapons in the world, but that’s not enough to deter and win future conflicts. The wars in Ukraine and the Middle East are demonstrating...
“Space is no longer a sanctuary. Adversaries, particularly the People’s Republic of China, are rapidly fielding counterspace weapons that threaten critical joint force capabilities,” the House Appropriations...