United States Strategic Command

Don’t Decimate U.S. Military Posture in Europe

As NATO leaders gather in Ankara next week, there is much to celebrate. Ukraine is gaining the upper hand on the battlefield against Russia. European defense spending is way up. Many European...

Showcasing Growing Ties, Xi Engages in Rare Visit to North Korea

In a rare visit to the Hermit Kingdom, Chinese paramount leader Xi Jinping sought to bring North Korea out of the cold. Xi visited North Korea on June 8-9 for the first time in seven years, holding...

The U.S. Needs Its Mideast Bases

If America won’t finish the job in Iran, leaving the Gulf Arab states would turn a failure into a rout.

Learning the Right Lessons From ‘A House of Dynamite’

Within three days of its debut on Netflix, “A House of Dynamite” rocketed to the top of the streaming service’s charts, with more than 22 million views. In the film, a nuclear-armed ballistic missile,...

Assessing the Challenges Facing NATO

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‘There Will Be a Bombing’: Trump Threatens to Attack Iran if No Nuclear Deal Reached

Trump Threatens Tehran: U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to bomb Iran and impose secondary tariffs on the country if it does not enter into negotiations over its nuclear...

Trump is Right to Prioritize Homeland Missile Defense

President Trump issued an executive order, “The Iron Dome for America,” on January 27, jumpstarting a major effort to deploy and maintain a “next generation” missile shield to better...

Nip the Bots in the Bud

Proactively Taking Down and Preventing the Creation of Inauthentic Social Media Entities

Can Taiwan Count on the U.S. if Trump Wins?

A disturbing diffidence from some experts in his orbit, who want Taipei to spend more on defense.

Is Russia Raising Specter of ‘Dirty Bomb’ to Prime Public for False Flag?

Russia has vast playbook full of “dirty tricks” by which it can deceive public opinion and distort perception of reality. History show that false flag operations have always been a viable option.

United States Cyber Force

A Defense Imperative

Deterring Aggression in the Pacific: A Conversation with General Kenneth S. Wilsbach

Many in Washington speculate on the nature and urgency of the military threat from China and the readiness of U.S. forces in the Indo-Pacific to deter and defeat aggression by Beijing. But rather than...

Harden the cybersecurity of US nuclear complex now

Deterrence is only as good as it is credible

Russia’s Sarmat test underscores need to modernize US nuclear triad

Russia conducted its first flight test of the RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile on April 20. The launch represents a notable milestone in Russia’s ongoing nuclear modernization designed...

Biden Must Continue the Bipartisan Nuclear Consensus

A nuclear arms race is underway, but so far, the only participants are Russia and China. The United States, for its part, is barely treading water.

Russia

Avoiding a Self-Inflicted Wound in the Sinai

Defending Forward

Securing America by Projecting Military Power Abroad

America’s military deserves timely funding from Congress

As the federal fiscal year ends on Sept. 30, the Department of Defense once again does not have an on-time authorization or full-year defense appropriation from Congress. Sadly, the use of so-called continuing...

Kim Jong Un Returns to Preside Over Central Military Commission

Kim Jong Un made his first public appearance in three weeks to oversee a May 25 meeting of North Korea’s Central Military Commission (CMC). The key takeaway: Pyongyang remains fully committed to developing...