Biden Must Resist Calls to Send Cluster Munitions to Ukraine
Transferring the weapons may bring tactical benefits but would be a strategic disaster.
The NSA’s Brain Drain Has a Silver Lining
Agency leaders should use former employees to recruit new talent and cement public-private working relationships.
The Army Wants SBOMs—and So Should the Other Services
Software bills of materials are key to keeping track of what code is running your weapons or systems.
Still Waiting for an International Tribunal on ISIS
It would help Iraq restore the rule of law, deter future violence, and give victims a mechanism for redress and healing.
The Army Should Be Looking for a Few Older Soldiers
Recruiters should widen their focus beyond high school and college students—and not just to make quotas.
China Gears Up for Cognitive Warfare
Like the U.S. military, the PLA is working on wearable sensors and other ways to hone and maintain troops' fighting spirit.
How to Advance US-Saudi Defense Cooperation
There’s room for progress short of a formal alliance.
Defense One Radio, Ep. 122: Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley
Milley spoke with Defense One Executive Editor Kevin Baron on the Ukraine war, China, Taiwan, Mexico, and more.
China Is Eating Russia’s Lunch in the Defense Market
The script has flipped in the countries’ traditional defense-industrial relationship.
Defense One Radio, Ep. 121: Space Force chief Gen. Chance Saltzman
America’s Chief of Space Operations, Gen. Chance Saltzman, spoke to Defense One's Jennifer Hlad about Chinese satellite jamming, missile defense, and more.
‘If We Don’t Sell Them Arms, Someone Else Will’ Is a Myth
Some of the assumptions that underpin this familiar refrain don’t hold water.
Has Congress Learned the Lessons of the Iraq War?
Besides repealing the AUMFs, lawmakers ought to create new tools to curb U.S. military interventions.
The New F-35A Engine Would Be a Win-Win-Win-Win
The fuel savings alone would please taxpayers, environmentalists, the Pentagon and the industrial base.
Defense One Radio, Ep. 120: Air Force chief Gen. Charles Q. Brown
Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown sat down with Defense One’s Marcus Weisgerber to discuss priorities for the year ahead, lessons from Russia’s Ukraine invasion, and more.
This Ugly Dispute Over Amphibious Warships Didn’t Have to Happen
The Pentagon’s civilian leaders must spell out what they need to deter China.
A Slim Rhetorical Wedge Could Drive China and Russia Apart
U.S. officials must skip no opportunity to remind Moscow that it is Beijing's junior partner.
China ‘Colonizes’ Space with Its First Rice Harvest
The cultivation of food in orbit is part of a larger push by the Chinese space program toward a lunar base.
20 Years Later, Terrorism Simmers from Iraq to Afghanistan, Officials Warn
Threats are rising once again, two decades after the American invasion that unleashed them all.
No US-Turkey Rapprochement Is Possible Under Erdogan
The Turkish president has morphed into an opponent of democratic governance.
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