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Tariffs Create Markets — Just Not the Ones Policymakers Want
Panic wouldn’t help. Anger would make things worse. So, I stared out at the endless fields of northern Nigeria and thought, “I’m a pawn in their chess game. They were never rooks in mine.”
In 2014, I served as an embedded advisor to…
Operation Sindoor and the Evolution of India’s Strategy Against Pakistan
Once more unto the breach, India struck inside Pakistan in response to a terrorist attack. Once more, the two sides escalated — again to unprecedented levels — before agreeing to a ceasefire. It is tempting to consider this latest crisis as…
Made in the USA: foreign defense companies eye bigger slice of the American pie
Despite the Trump administration’s jarring shifts in foreign and trade policy, some international companies are laying plans to expand their defense business in the United States, executives said in interviews.Saab increased its American…
Defense One Radio, Ep. 180: The Marine Corps in the Pacific littorals
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The D Brief: Army Reserve’s Pacific plan; What Ukraine needs; Peace talks in Turkey; Misinformation…
Army designating Reserve units for repeat deployments to INDOPACOM. As Army units from Washington state to South Korea prepare themselves for a potential war with China, the service has decided that it would like some of its reserve units…
Army designating Reserve units for repeat deployments to INDOPACOM
HONOLULU—As Army units from Washington state to South Korea prepare themselves for a potential war with China, the service has decided that it would like some of its reserve units to have that same Indo-Pacific expertise, the head of the…
The Montreux Paradox: How a Ukraine Ceasefire Could Set the Stage for Escalation in the Black Sea
Since spring 2022, Russia has been prevented from reinforcing its navy in the Black Sea by a near-antique international convention and some very contemporary Turkish politics. A ceasefire could change that.
After more than three years of…
Is Trump’s ‘F-55’ fighter jet real?
“One of the things, for the people that are interested in the military, that I asked to look into—the F-35,” President Trump told an audience in Qatar on Thursday, launching into a minutes-long disquisition that left defense officials and…
Red Lines and Reckonings
Welcome to The Adversarial. Every other week, we’ll provide you with expert analysis on America’s greatest challengers: China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and jihadists. Read more below. *** China On May 12, the United States and China…
US spy chief fires intelligence leaders who disputed Trump’s Venezuela-gang claims
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard fired two top officials on the National Intelligence Council in a move aimed at ending the “weaponization and politicization” of the intelligence community, a spokesperson for her office…
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