United States Senate

April 11, 2025 | Orde Kittrie, Andrea Stricker, Behnam Ben Taleblu

What President Trump Must Demand to Eliminate Iran’s Nuclear Threat

The United States and Iran are set to hold landmark talks on April 12, President Donald Trump announced earlier in the week, just weeks after Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei refused the...

March 26, 2025 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Annie Fixler, Joe Dougherty

CSC 2.0 Report on Military Mobility

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March 24, 2025 | Natalie Ecanow |

The Trump administration should bring Al Jazeera in line with US law

AJ+ is headquartered in the United States but the Justice Department found it operates “at the direction and control” of the Qatari government.

March 24, 2025 | Sen. Todd Young, Matt Pottinger

Funding for R&D isn’t a gift to academia. It’s vital to U.S. security.

China’s strategy for tech dominance hinges on investment in R&D. Ours should, too.

March 13, 2025 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Jiwon Ma

SOLARIUM TURNS FIVE

This week marks the five-year anniversary of the release of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission’s original March 2020 report, a blueprint that has reshaped U.S. cybersecurity strategy and policymaking....

March 7, 2025 | Jonathan Schanzer, Ahmad Sharawi

Oman Is Supporting The Houthis: It Should Be Held To Account

Oman cannot have it both ways—it cannot benefit from American friendship and assistance while enabling a crisis in the Middle East.

March 5, 2025 | Cleo Paskal |

Examining the Office of Insular Affairs’ Role in Fostering Prosperity in the Pacific Territories and Addressing External Threats to Peace and Security

February 25, 2025 | Nathan Picarsic, Emily de La Bruyère

What DeepSeek taught us about the gaps in US tech strategy

The emergence of DeepSeek underlines a lesson to American tech companies and regulators: China has a far greater edge over the US in encouraging efficiency innovation and scalability. To maintain its competitive advantage, Washington must re-evaluate its current approach to one that goes beyond tech denial to include cost-cutting innovation at home and making friends globally.

February 21, 2025 | Cameron McMillan, Ryan Brobst, Bradley Bowman

‘Peace Through Strength’ Requires Increased Defense Spending

President Donald Trump, who ran on a platform of “peace through strength,” surprised some in Washington when he suggested last week that he might support cutting the U.S. defense budget by as much...

February 20, 2025 | Natalie Ecanow |

Congress Moves to Spotlight Foreign Money on American College Campuses

Hostile foreign governments want to hijack the American higher education system. Congress wants to expose them.

February 20, 2025 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Bradley Bowman, John Hardie, Joe Dougherty

Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: Three Years Later

February 19, 2025 | Colin Ahern, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

Cybersecurity: A Bipartisan Imperative in a Dangerous World

In an increasingly interconnected and hostile world, cybersecurity has never been more critical. And at this critical moment, we’re witnessing troubling signs of political paralysis creeping...

February 12, 2025 | Peter Doran |

Marco Rubio must convince Europe that ‘America First 2.0’ has replaced Biden-era US decline

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has a historic opportunity at this week’s Munich Security Conference to define what an “America First” foreign policy means for Europe in President Trump’s second...

February 12, 2025 | Bradley Bowman |

The Trump Administration Acts to Arm Israel and Signals Desire to Reform U.S. Security Assistance

The Trump administration formally notified Congress on Friday that it plans to sell Israel over $8 billion in weapons, advancing sales that the Biden administration slow-rolled for months. The Trump administration’s...

February 6, 2025 | |

‘No Jurisdiction Over the United States or Israel’: Trump Signs Executive Order Sanctioning International Criminal Court

Trump Signs Executive Order Sanctioning the ICC: President Donald Trump signed an executive order on February 6 sanctioning the International Criminal Court (ICC) for targeting...

January 22, 2025 | |

‘Den of Antisemitism’: Hamas Held Israeli Hostages in UNRWA Camps

Israeli Hostages Held in UN camp: The three female Israeli hostages released last weekend following the ceasefire in Gaza revealed on January 21 that they were incarcerated in a...

January 22, 2025 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery |

Unconstrained Actors

Assessing Global Cyber Threats to the Homeland

January 10, 2025 | |

‘Kangaroo Court’: House Passes Bill to Sanction ICC for Israel Arrest Warrants 

House Passes Sanctions on ICC: Rebuking the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague for issuing arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former...

January 8, 2025 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Peter Choharis, Elizabeth Robbins

Previewing TikTok Case Oral Arguments Before the Supreme Court

January 8, 2025 | Clifford D. May

Border security is national security

That used to be common knowledge