Rumors of War

Updated: 3:52 p.m. ET.The State Department will eliminate 15 percent of its domestic staff as part of a reorganization that will close one-sixth of its 734 offices and bureaus, officials said Tuesday.Of the remaining 602…

President Trump’s White House is asking around for someone who could replace Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth, NPR’s Tom Bowman reported Monday, citing a U.S. official. However, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt disagreed, and called…

I didn’t join the Navy to fight for a country that bans books. I joined to defend one that never would.I went to the U.S. Naval Academy because I believed in the values laid out in its mission: to develop midshipmen morally, mentally and…

Reliable, fast, working, and user-friendly software is the basis of our everyday lives — something we all take for granted. The military can’t always say the same thing. A new memo endeavors to address that by announcing a huge, structural…

The Army took a major step Monday in replacing the aging Patriot air defense missile system, with the selection of a new radar.The Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor, from Raytheon, has gotten the all-clear to begin initial…

The State Department is urging other countries to avoid doing business with Chinese satellite firms, arguing that such contracts fuel military development and help Beijing gather sensitive intelligence from allies.“It is important to ensure…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is under fire again for sharing sensitive military details on the unclassified messaging app Signal, but in an additional channel separate from the one that got him and White House National Security Advisor…

This commentary is published in coordination with the 2025 Global Security Forum, of which Defense One is a media partner.One of the less-heralded features of the Global War on Terror—roughly, the two decades that followed the 9/11…

For over a decade, a contentious policy struggle has simmered in the United States over the allocation of radio spectrum — a resource as critical to modern warfare as it is to economic prosperity. Authors in these pages have observed how…

I recently resigned from my role on the Board of Visitors at National Defense University, the venerable institution of joint professional military education at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C.I did not want to leave the job. I loved advising…