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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

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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...

Modernizing Military Decision-Making: Transforming Euro...

This June marks 81 years since Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered the cross-chann...

Realizing America’s Drone Revolution

Two years ago, I represented the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab at the Defense Inn...

The Middle East’s AI Warfare Laboratory

On a chilly morning in November 1911, Lt. Giulio Gavotti, an Italian pilot, lean...

Friends with Limits: The Future of Russo-Indian Defense...

Earlier this year, a Russian Su-57 fighter jet roared across Indian skies, captu...

Mid-Afternoon Map: Maps of Matrimony

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

In Brief: Foreign Policy Surprises in Trump’s First 100...

Today marks the 100th day of Donald Trump’s second presidential administration. ...

Modernization as Readiness in the U.S. Marine Corps

Many observers had grown numb to yet another Chinese military exercise encirclin...

Haiti is in a Political and Criminal Crisis that Should...

A coalition of criminal gangs is close to capturing Haiti’s beleaguered capital ...

Rewind and Reconnoiter: The Bay of Bengal as a Test Cas...

In his 2022 article “The Bay of Bengal Could be the Key to a Free and Open Indo-...

For Saudi Arabia, Normalization with Israel Doesn’t Mak...

As the Trump administration continues to widen its engagement with Iran, Washing...

An Insider’s Guide to Cyber Readiness

Despite the Department of Defense spending $14 billion a year on cyber forces an...

Gen. Berger on Leadership in a Turbulent Era

In today’s world, turbulence isn’t temporary — it‘s the new normal. In this epis...

The Ides of November: Navigating the Shifting Sands of ...

What could be the make-up of the next Iraqi government, as geopolitical drama co...

The Adversarial: Deals, Schemes, and Plots

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Deep Rivalry or Elite Obsession? Washington’s Search fo...

Dmitri Alperovitch, World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race f...

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