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Mapped: America's Collective Defense Agreements

The United States has agreements to come to the defense of more than 50 other nations.

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Welcome to America’s ‘Nuclear Sponge’

If ICBMs are meant to draw enemy missiles toward American soil, it’s time to rethink our nuclear strategy.

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Making America’s ICBMs Great Again

SecDef Mattis had some questions about the value of the land-based part of the triad. Here are some answers.

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Truth, Trump, and Security: We Need This Independent Commission Into Russian Meddling

It’s not over, yet. We must restore Americans’ trust in us and their government. Here's my plan.

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15 Questions Trump Should Answer About His 'Safe Zones'

If the president is serious about this, White House officials must clarify exactly what this new and expansive military mission would entail.

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What Trump's Reshuffling of the National Security Council Means

A former Bush and Obama NSC staffer says changes to the Council's top committee suggest Trump may exclude it from his decision-making entirely.

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We Conservatives Warned You, Trump Will Not Get Better. Here's What You Can Do.

To my friends thinking of serving this administration, either you stand up for your principles and decent behavior, or you go down as a coward or opportunist.

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Everything I Need to Know about Russia’s Internet Interference I Learned Through College Pranks

It's not terribly difficult to inject fake news into conversation.

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5 Things to Know Before the US Reduces Its Role at the UN

Trump’s hyper-nationalist, 'America First' agenda will play well with his populist base. But it signals a reckless abdication of U.S. global leadership.

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The Dangerous Delusion of 'We Should've Kept the Oil'

The president has said he wants to support the troops, but his careless comments put U.S. lives at risk in Iraq.

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Interview: Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson

The CNO talked with Defense One editor Kevin Baron on Jan. 17, in the first D Brief LIVE event.

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Why Iraq Needs the Oil

Taking it, as Donald Trump has mused about doing, is not only illegal—it would tear the country apart.

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The Art of Dealing with Pakistan

Trump’s transactional approach to foreign policy may help get Islamabad moving in the right direction.

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No Way to Honor Sacrifice

On Saturday, President Trump stood in front of the CIA’s Memorial Wall and gave a speech that said more about himself than those the wall commemorated, or the agency they served.

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The Foreign Crises Awaiting Trump

Trump wants to undo the liberal international order the U.S. built and replace it with a 19th-century model of nationalism and mercantilism. Its unwinding cannot, and will not, be pretty.

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Ranked: Donald Trump's Foreign-Policy Contradictions

A guide to the unpredictable presidency to come.

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Don’t Shut Down Foreign Investment in the Name of Security

The next administration could impose significant constraints on business deals it sees as national security risks by reshaping an interagency watchdog group.

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No Turning Back? First Woman Makes Army’s Elite 75th Ranger Regiment, Big Step For Women in Combat

One woman just made it that much harder for anyone to argue women don't belong in America's most elite combat positions.

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Did Trump’s Team Just Threaten War With China?

Rex Tillerson said the U.S. should threaten to keep China from its new man-made islands. That requires a naval blockade. And that is war.