Ideas

To Deter China, Extend New START

A new arms race with Russia will drain funds from the forces that influence and deter Beijing.

  • Alex Moore
Threats

Today's D Brief: Violence spikes in Afghanistan; Bad TikTok deal; AI’s ‘black boxes’; Wearable COVID detectors; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson
Science & Tech

The US Military’s Latest Wearables Can Detect Illness Two Days Before You Get Sick

Some 400 troops are testing the devices, trained on nearly a quarter million cases to detect COVID and a whole lot more.

  • Patrick Tucker
Defense Systems

House tees up continuing resolution to avoid Oct. 1 shutdown

Protected leave for federal health workers and a USCIS funding measure are included in the stopgap bill.

  • Adam Mazmanian, Defense Systems
Policy

Could Trump Assassinate A World Leader and Get Away With it?

Maybe. Scholars explain why the answer is as murky as the law.

  • Katie Bo Williams
Science & Tech

Analysis: How Trump’s TikTok Deal Helps China

The deal doesn’t really address data or privacy concerns. It does help regimes attack U.S. companies.

  • Patrick Tucker
Ideas

The US Navy Has Drifted Badly Off Course

Three main failures are imperiling the sea service, writes the service’s former chief learning officer.

  • John R. Kroger
Threats

Today's D Brief: 200,000 Americans dead of COVID; Army sends armor to Syria; Space Force, deployed; WeChat ban, blocked; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson
Ideas

The Pentagon Is Funding the Destruction of Cultural Heritage

Construction of Trump’s border wall is undermining not just sacred sites but the rule of law itself.

  • David Elitzer
Science & Tech

Guam Becomes a Living Laboratory for Pentagon’s ‘Connect-Everything’ Experiments

US INDOPACOM and the Air Force are testing new networked warfare solutions in the region right now.

  • Patrick Tucker
Policy

EU, US May Sanction Belarusian Leadership Next Week

Tensions are still running high and crackdowns continue in Minsk

  • Patrick Tucker
Threats

Today's D Brief: FBI: Russia helping Trump; Chinese jets buzz Taiwan; America’s declining reputation; Readers pick top natsec problems; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Ideas

Esper's Convenient Lie

The defense secretary's claim that the two decades of countering violent extremism left the U.S. under-prepared for a near-peer fight doesn’t hold water.

  • Paul Scharre
Defense Systems

How cross-domain technologies are central to JADC2 success

Expanded with commercial technology, cross-domain solutions will play a crucial role in detecting threats as our military advantage on the world stage faces increasingly tough competition.

  • Ward Heinke and Joseph Brendler, Defense Systems
Ideas

The Air Force Needs a New Non-Stealthy Bomber

There are important things the B-1 and B-52 do that the B-21 won’t.

  • Lt. Col. Shane Praiswater
Business

Lessons of virtual AFA; Esper wants more cash for ships; One-on-one with Lockheed Aero boss, and more.

  • Marcus Weisgerber
Ideas

Nobody Wants America to Rule the World

Foreign confidence in the U.S. is sinking even faster than the share of Americans who see the benefits of engagement beyond our borders.

  • Kevin Baron
Science & Tech

Air Force to Try In-Flight Software Update

The demonstration would show how the service’s DevSecOps initiative can deliver updates to warfighters in real time.

  • Mila Jasper
Threats

Today's D Brief: CDC rebuts WH vaccine promises; Taliban’s insulating wealth; New arms sales to Taiwan?; Allies flock to DOD AI project; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson
Ideas

Combat Leaders Go Through Hell to Learn About Risk. The Acquisition Corps Should Do the Same

One reason the “culture of innovation” hasn’t taken proper hold at the Pentagon is that its buyers aren’t trained over and over to weigh uncertainties.

  • Peter A. Newell
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