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What Someone Needs to Explain to Trump About ‘National Emergencies’
It’s not just the likelihood that he will lose in court—it’s how he will lose that matters.
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Ep. 35: After Mattis + Shutdown’s effect on national security
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America’s Foreign Policy in the Middle East is Not What Pompeo Claimed
In Cairo, the secretary touted stronger U.S. engagement in the region, all evidence to the contrary.
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FBI Agents Say the Shutdown Is a Threat to National Security
Nearly 5,000 FBI special agents, intelligence analysts, attorneys, and professional staff have been furloughed.
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Paul Whelan Isn’t a Spy, and Putin Knows It
The American’s detention reminds us that Russia continues to perfect dirty tricks pioneered by the KGB.
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Why Trump Is Trying to Create a Crisis
The president didn’t declare a state of national emergency on Tuesday night, but he laid the foundation for doing so.
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Moscow’s Little-Noticed Islamic-Outreach Effort
Russia is promoting Islamic moderation in unison with Arab powers—and further cementing its position in the Middle East.
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Why China’s Military Wants to Beat the US to a Next-Gen Cell Network
For Beijing, the race to 5G has always been linked to its national strategy for military-civil fusion.
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The US Isn’t Really Leaving Syria and Afghanistan
Even if American troops come home in a timely fashion, they will likely return before long.
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Democrats Are Wrong About Defense Spending
The need for investment is only likely to grow in the coming years.
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The Truth About the Soviet War in Afghanistan
Trump mischaracterized it in an attempt to justify his own disastrous policy in the region.
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Trump Just Killed His Own Defense Strategy
The commander in chief has torn up 17 years of counterterrorism plans, offering instead his strange mix of talking points and lies.
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China, Huawei, and the Coming Technological Cold War
2019 might be the year that splinters the global technology system into distinct spheres of influence.
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Fill the Cracks in NATO's Maritime Strategy
If Russia decides to attack the Western alliance, it would do so along several fissures that need shoring up.
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Trump Escalates His Assault on Civil-Military Relations
The president’s public disparagement of retired generals compounds the damage he has done.
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Meet the New (Acting) US Defense Secretary
With no military experience and just a year and a half in government, the former Boeing executive Patrick Shanahan has yet to develop a foreign-policy vision of his own.
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What we learned in 2018: Averting war with North Korea
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The Biggest Nuclear Threats of 2018 Will Follow Us into the New Year
We whistled past the graveyard this year. Let’s be smarter in 2019.
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The Kurds Have Been Betrayed Again by Washington
Time and again, powerful allies on whose support they thought they could rely abandoned them.
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