US must prioritize cybersecurity training for the military’s engineers
The Defense Department faces a startling capability gap.
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US and allies must get tough on Russia, China’s deep-sea cable sabotage
Russia and China have no qualms about going low to gain an advantage over the United States — and now they’re going even lower, targeting subsea cables that carry the vast majority of our...
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Hamas, other terror groups turn to boobytraps and explosives to attack Israel
Hamas has reverted to this method as a way to fight the IDF without confronting the IDF using armed fighters.
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Great power competition heats up in the thawing Arctic, and the US must respond
Russia and China have been busy in a rapidly changing Arctic, and America seems to have barely noticed. Focused elsewhere, the U.S. now finds itself ill-prepared to compete in the thawing, resource-rich...
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America’s military goes to war against the coronavirus
U.S. service members and Department of Defense (DOD) civilians take an oath to defend America “against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” As America fights to defeat the novel coronavirus, U.S. soldiers,...
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Getting Iraq to Work
The American mission in Iraq must succeed. Our goal--promoting a stable, accountable democracy in the heart of the Middle East--cannot be achieved by purely military means. Iraqis nee...
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Flooded but Unbowed
It feels like months. But for just over a week Americans have been staring into the nightmare of New Orleans and asking each other what it means. It means we were unprepared. It means recriminati...
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Beware of the Terrorist Moles
Last week's dire warning from Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller was deadly clear: Al Qaeda is alive and well and planning a large-scale attack in the U.S. and/or...
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Building Democracies: Tough Work If You Can Get It
Virtually everyone reading this newspaper can drive a car. But how many of you could build a car? The same is true of democracy. Most people raised in a democratic society know how to op...
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Throwing Out the Baath Water
By Amb. Richard Carlson The other day, General Tommy Franks made a pleasing announcement: The ruling Baath Socialist party of Iraq was dead, its carcass hung upside down on a fence. Afte...