Ideas

The Senate in late July passed the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2024, setting up a clash with the House when Congress reconvenes after Labor Day.The $886 billion package includes a 5.2 percent pay raise for troops — the…

Americans increasingly feel comfortable seeking mental health care, a beneficial change that should spur U.S. national-security and industry leaders to remove stigmas that have long caused clearance seekers and holders to deprioritize their…

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As a former Director of Operations at U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, my birthday wish would be to have U.S. drones comprehensively map China's infrastructure and download it to my targeting team. My war-planning counterpart in the People’s…

Thursday’s furlough of Iranian-American dual nationals unjustly detained in Iran appears to herald another multistep U.S.-Iranian prisoner-swap deal. According to reports, the United States will unfreeze nearly $6 billion that had been held…

As a part of the great-power race for technological superiority, the Pentagon should use existing law and new metrics for defense-research capacity to advance eligible historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to the top tier of…

A late-June exercise in Hunan Province saw members of China’s militia taking on growing responsibilities, including piloting drones, driving assault boats, and manning command-and-control vehicles. While the People’s Liberation Army has for…

The coup in Niger last week should be a wake-up call for U.S. policymakers: the current approach to security in West Africa isn’t working. The United States is using too much force against too little threat in the region. Leaders…

The headlines are familiar: “The U.S. Must Harness the Power of Silicon Valley to Spur Innovation.” “Start-Ups Bring Silicon Valley Ethos to a Lumbering Military-Industrial Complex.” Yet the defense community opines that DOD either has an…

In 1274, the Asian superpower known as the Mongol Empire sought to conquer its island neighbor Japan, but its invasion fleet was devastated by an enormous typhoon. Stubbornly, it rebuilt its invasion force and in 1281 tried the same thing,…