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If President Donald Trump’s actions are any indication, the Monroe Doctrine, the two-century-old framework that claimed the Western Hemisphere as America’s exclusive sphere of influence, is once again official U.S.…

The debate at this week’s Air & Space Force Association’s Warfare Symposium focused on a plea to President Trump to "Make the Air Force Great Again." In the spirit of a post-mission aircrew debrief, I offer this experienced intervention…

As Pentagon leaders look to shift money to new priorities—$50 billion in each of the next five years—they should take care to preserve a longstanding area of investment that pays off: defense-related research and development at America’s…

President Donald Trump has suspended military aid for Kyiv following his contentious Oval Office meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. If not reversed, Trump’s decision will, at best, undermine his own efforts to…

Hours after a heated disagreement in the Oval Office between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, America’s sudden retreat from a democracy-forward foreign policy took dramatic form a bit further down…

This president summarily fired tens of thousands of federal employees. This one cut more than 400,000 federal jobs, implementing a hiring freeze and dangling buyout offers to a vast swath of employees. This one opened thousands of…

During this year’s Lunar New Year celebrations, a remote village in China’s Guangdong province became an unexpected center of attention. Crowds of visitors flocked to the hometown of DeepSeek’s founder, Liang Wenfeng, eager to glimpse the…

The Trump administration wants NATO allies in Europe to “pay their fair share” for defense, while their governments want to build strategic autonomy, boost domestic defense industries, and fend off Russian aggression—now and in the future.…

Among the many lessons of the Ukraine war is that traditional reactive logistics models are dangerously outdated.Russia’s experience shows this. From February 2022’s 40-mile stalled convoy outside Kyiv to more recent ammunition shortages at…

“The U.S. Service Academies and other defense academic institutions shall teach that America and its founding documents remain the most powerful force for good in human history,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered late last month.…