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Putin’s Spies for Hire: What the U.K.’s Biggest Espiona...

In early 2023, in the sleepy English seaside town of Great Yarmouth, a covert op...

U.S. Allies and Adversaries Are Attempting Nuclear Dete...

Your adversaries and closest allies might not need nuclear weapons to achieve de...

Rewind and Reconnoiter: Post-Brexit British Power on th...

In their 2016 article, “After Brexit, a Bold Britain: A Game Plan for Remaking B...

Beyond Comparisons: India’s Strategic Reckoning amid Ch...

Can India afford to keep chasing China’s military shadow — or should it accept s...

In Brief: Will the European Union’s New Loan Instrument...

A lot happens every day. Alliances shift, leaders change, and conflicts erupt. W...

Beyond Strategy: Executing Economic Security Policy

Chinese Ambassador Xie Feng presented his credentials to President Joe Biden at ...

Trouble in the Technate

Welcome to Mid-Afternoon Map, our exclusive members-only newsletter that provide...

Erdoğan’s Last Great Gamble

Over the course of the last 22 years, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey h...

A Federal Critical Mineral Processing Initiative: Secur...

China currently dominates global refining for critical minerals essential to mod...

Not the Last Net Assessment

In this joint episode with the Net Assessment crew, recorded last week on “Liber...

Taiwan’s Biggest Problem in Steeling Itself for War wit...

General Secretary Xi Jinping clearly wants to prepare China for a war over Taiwa...

In Brief: Balancing Speed and Security in Defense Commu...

A lot happens every day. Alliances shift, leaders change, and conflicts erupt. W...

Rearming Europe: Challenges and Constraints

The Trump administration is sending shock waves through the development communit...

Mozambique’s Quiet Threat to Regional Stability and U.S...

A wave of violently suppressed political protests following the October 2024 Nat...

Rewind and Reconnoiter: An Unsustainable Peace in Yemen

In his 2023 article, “Negotiating Saudi Arabia’s Defeat and the Houthi Victory i...

The Future of Sweden’s Military with Chief of Defense M...

Gen. Michael Claesson, Chief of Defense of the Swedish Armed Forces, joined Ryan...

The Adversarial: Talks and Tariffs

Welcome to The Adversarial. Every other week, we’ll provide you with expert anal...

Thinking Through Deception on the Electromagnetic Spectrum

The art of deception, as old as war itself, can garner astonishment when one sid...

The Special Sauce: How Hegseth’s Software Memo Can Star...

Reliable, fast, working, and user-friendly software is the basis of our everyday...

Spectrum Supremacy: Reclaiming America’s Edge in a Cont...

For over a decade, a contentious policy struggle has simmered in the United Stat...

The Department of Defense’s Breakthrough Nuclear Moment...

The Department of Defense is on the verge of a breakthrough with advanced nuclea...

Rewind and Reconnoiter: Getting to Critical Mass in the...

In 2021, Nicholas Miller wrote, “The Lessons of the Past Point to Rejoining the ...

Agentic Warfare Is Here. Will America Be the First Mover?

It is 02:35:01Z, March 22, 2026, inside a dimly lit Forward U.S. Joint Operation...

In Brief: How to Improve the Foreign Military Sales Pro...

In an April 9 executive order, the president directed his administration to “imp...

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