Science & Tech
An Experiment Showed that the Military Must Change Its Cybersecurity Approach
The Defense Department’s current “checklist” approach can’t keep its networks safe.
Ideas
How Beijing Is Changing Its Rules Around Taiwan
Three lessons from China’s recent exercises around the self-governing island.
Threats
Lawmakers Want Damage Assessment After ‘Highly Classified’ Documents Found at Trump's House
House committee chairs ask intel-community chief how badly national security could be hurt by the information in the recovered documents.
Ideas
You Don’t Have to Be a Spy to Violate the Espionage Act
Two law professors outline how the Act has been used in the past, and what it could mean for former president Trump.
Ideas
A Year After Kabul's Fall, Taliban’s False Commitments Are Fully Exposed
But the U.S. has few good options for counterterrorism efforts in Afghanistan.
Threats
The Hardest Thing About Missile Defense in Guam? Finding the Right Site
There are candidate locations, but nothing is final, said Missile Defense Agency Director Vice Adm. Jon Hill.
Policy
4 in 5 Afghans Who Worked for the US Have Faced Taliban Threats, Poll Finds
Lawmakers and advocates are working on legislation to make the special immigrant visa program permanent.
Ideas
Defense One Radio, Ep. 106: Decoding China’s Taiwan saber-rattling
Two experts help us put the most recent Taiwan Strait crisis in perspective.
Science & Tech
CENTCOM Launches Competition For Innovation from Troops
The ‘Shark Tank’-like competition will pull solutions from active-duty personnel for possible use in the field.
Threats
US Military ‘Furiously’ Rewriting Nuclear Deterrence to Address Russia and China, STRATCOM Chief Says
But America’s “expertise is just not what it was at the end of the Cold War,” warns Adm. Chas Richard.
Ideas
How Putin’s Ukraine War Has Made Russia More Reliant on China
Despite Putin’s imperial dreams, in the last six months China has increasingly dictated the direction of the partnership and squeezed more concessions from the Russians.
Defense Systems