Ideas

Western governments are seeking to build more mines and refineries for critical minerals, given their necessity in not only clean energy technologies like electric vehicle batteries but also defense applications like…

Russia has gained on the battlefield in recent weeks, but Ukraine’s cause is far from hopeless. The United States and its allies can give Kyiv the training and technological advantage it needs, but the Biden administration has failed to…

Published in coordination with the 2024 Global Security Forum, of which Defense One is a media partner.Despite all the goodwill between Washington and Baghdad, future bilateral ties will likely be shaped by terrorism and…

Published in coordination with the 2024 Global Security Forum, of which Defense One is a media partner.European strategic autonomy, strategic independence, and emancipation—these concepts have been ambiguously defined and,…

Published in coordination with the 2024 Global Security Forum, of which Defense One is a media partner.The forced closing of two U.S. military bases in Niger and the hasty withdrawal of a much smaller group of special…

Published in coordination with the 2024 Global Security Forum, of which Defense One is a media partner.China has surely been watching as Russia and Iran have used non-state actors to pursue their strategic objectives in…

Zombies may be fiction in movies and books, but in politics they are real. Bad ideas in Washington don’t always stay dead—you often have to keep killing them. The latest zombie to roam the halls of Congress is a proposal to create a…

“Sudan’s moment has come; chaos is our chance to sow the seeds of jihad,” warned Abu Hudhaifa al-Sudani, a high-ranking al-Qaida leader, in an October 2022 manifesto.His words may have seemed premature at the time, but a year…

While campaigning in Iowa last September, former President Donald Trump made a promise to voters if he were elected again: “Following the Eisenhower model, we will carry out the largest domestic deportation operation in American…

U.S. special operations forces have a unique role to play in today’s strategic competition with China and Russia, yet—outside a niche community—understanding of what SOF do is limited, outdated, and under-appreciated. It’s time that…