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CISA should abandon disinformation fight, Trump’s DHS pick says
America’s main cybersecurity agency needs to be smaller and should no longer fight misinformation and disinformation, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head the Department of Homeland Security said Friday.In…
Today’s D Brief: Israel pounds Gaza; Navy’s readiness plan; UK, Ukraine ink 100-year pact; ‘Remember…
Tel Aviv mulls ceasefireWith security group’s OK, decision moves to full cabinet. A ceasefire deal negotiated by Israel and Hamas has cleared the national-security subset of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s cabinet, and is…
China’s plan to rule the heavens
The race to return to the Moon and push beyond has entered a new, more intense phase. While Elon Musk and NASA have been arguing over whether to go to the Moon or Mars, China's recently published space-sciences plan declares its intent to…
In Brief: A New Syrian Government’s Regional Relationships
Syria’s new leaders are in desperate need of partners who can provide fiscal, economic, and diplomatic support. Since overthrowing the Assad regime, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s leader, Ahmed al Sharaa, has actively reached out to multiple…
In Syria, America Should Be Ruthlessly Focused on the Islamic State
Five years ago, we warned that a snap decision to depart Syria — abandoning the U.S. Kurdish-led partner force that has fought the Islamic State in Syria for the last 10 years while thousands of suspected fighters remained in detention —…
U.S. Officials Need to Explain the Stakes in Taiwan
“In the United States people are singularly oblivious of the close relation between peace and preparation.”–Alfred Thayer Mahan, 1912
Only 34 percent of Americans can find Taiwan on a map and they are even less aware of U.S. strategic…
New strategy aims to get 80% of Navy ships deployable
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti set a goal for the Navy last fall that she conceded might be a little aspirational: to have 80 percent of the Navy’s fleet ready to deploy at any given time by 2027.Monday, Naval Sea Systems…
Money alone won’t fix the Navy’s shipbuilding woes, lawmaker says
Congress may need to “micromanage” the Navy’s efforts to boost the submarine industrial base going forward, after the service asked for billions of dollars in supplemental funding requests last year on top of the annual budget, said Sen.…
Mapping the Future
Over the past couple weeks, everyone in Washington and the world has published their geopolitical forecast for 2025. The beauty of these predictions is that you can simultaneously make fun of the vague ones for being vague and the clear…
Blue Origin’s rocket reaches orbit on first flight, promising competition for SpaceX
The heavy-lift New Glenn rocket reached orbit during its maiden flight on Thursday, bringing Blue Origin, a private company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, one step closer to competing with launch titan SpaceX. The rocket blasted…
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