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What the Long, Corruption-Enabling, Mostly Failed Afghanistan-Stabilization Effort Tells Us

It’s about managing expectations: ours about the timeline, the foreign population’s about governance.

How to Bring the US-NK Rollercoaster Back to Earth

It starts with a sober assessment of what’s possible. Not on that list: Pyongyang somehow forgetting how to make nukes.

Defense One Radio, Episode 5: Q&A with Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson; UAE, Iran, and the war in Yemen, plus more.

Welcome to the fifth episode of our podcast about the news, strategy, tech, and business trends defining the future of national security.

Think again, North Korea tells US; Dollars flowed to Afghan warlords; New law would reframe command at sea; Let’s talk about food; and just a bit more…

“The land of morning surprise.” That’s what America’s military chief in Korea, Gen. Vincent Brooks, called the peninsula in the wake of President Trump cancelling the big U.S.-North Korean summit …

Trump’s Reckoning Arrives

The president’s unpredictability once worked to his advantage—but now, it is producing a mounting list of foreign-policy failures.

WTF: A Few Morning Thoughts on US-North Korea Relations

Kim Jong Un doesn’t need to dance with Trump. He’s got his own nuclear weapons.

The Word That Derailed the Trump-Kim Summit

The Americans and the North Koreans were all set for a historic meeting. Then they started talking about Libya.

Dance party at a defense firm; New B-52 engines; Is the defense bubble bursting? and a lot more.

It’s rare to walk into a defense-industry office and hear EDM blaring from the speakers. So you can imagine this former DJ’s surprise and delight last night. Bell — the recently rebranded company …

Show of Unity: US’ NATO Ambassador Says ‘We Are One’

Working to ease continental worries deepened by Trump’s Iran-deal decision, a top U.S. diplomat says America is as committed as ever to the alliance.