Threats

US Anti-Missile Batteries Arrive in South Korea, Touching Off Geopolitical Tumult

The weapon’s deployment converges with other tensions among China, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Malaysia, and the United States.

  • Josh Horwitz, Quartz
Ideas

The Coming Fall of Mosul

Iraqi forces are on the verge of a mighty victory.

  • Andrew Exum, The Atlantic
Threats

Carnage in Kabul; Militias seize Libyan oil ports; Three ways of looking at NorK’s missile test; That Wikileaks dump; and just a bit more...

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Defense Systems

Army EMARSS connects with ground-based intel

An emerging Army surveillance plane networks on-board sensors with a ground intelligence system.

  • Kris Osborn, Defense Systems
Ideas

Pick Up the Pace on Missile Defense

Five steps to keep U.S. defenses ahead of North Korea’s efforts to make weapons that can threaten American cities.

  • Sen. Dan Sullivan
Ideas

Calm Down About North Korea’s Nukes

History shows that nuclear states don’t behave more aggressively or coercively.

  • John Glaser
Defense Systems

Navy pursues advanced drone ship mine-hunting tech

The use of an entirely unmanned team of vehicles to search for mines frees complex amphibious operations from the threat of mines and protects the lives of Navy personnel.

  • Katherine Owens, Defense Systems
Ideas

Cocktails & Conversation: Space and Satellites in the New Administration

Tech Editor Patrick Tucker spoke with DoD's acting space-policy chief and CSIS' Todd Harrison.

  • Defense One Staff
Science & Tech

CIA Claims No Wrongdoing As Wikileaks Claims to Publish Thousands of Agency Files

The group says the 8,000-plus files detail the existence and function of key hacking tools.

  • Patrick Tucker
Threats

THAAD arrives in Korea; How Iraq got off the travel-ban list; Has the F-35 already seen combat?; US SOF is still hunting Kony; and just a bit more...

  • Ben Watson, Bradley Peniston and Kevin Baron
Threats

The Cyberwar Information Gap

Unlike a conventional military strike, state-on-state cyberattacks can go unreported for years.

  • Kaveh Waddell, The Atlantic
Threats

Iraq Agreed to Share More Information With US to Avoid Travel Ban

Other countries will have a harder time pulling the same trick.

  • Patrick Tucker
Ideas

What ISIS Will Do After Mosul Falls

They have options, write two terrorism scholars.

  • Colin P. Clarke and Amarnath Amarasingam, The Atlantic
Defense Systems

Navy IT security deal protects high-risk routers, chips & switches

A multiple award Navy contract seeks to harden high-risk IT areas using intrusion detection systems and encryptors.

  • Katherine Owens, Defense Systems
Threats

4 North Korean launches; Waves of car bombs in Mosul; China crashes US airpower conference; America can’t agree on its main threat; and just a bit more...

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Ideas

Killing Free Trade Will Rob the World of a Highly Effective Deterrent to War

Trade agreements are rarely about economics alone.

  • Dan Kopf, Quartz
Science & Tech

The Government’s Intelligence Wiki Might Be a Lockbox for Russian-Hacking Secrets

Analysts reportedly tucked classified information about Russian election meddling inside Intellipedia for safekeeping.

  • Kaveh Waddell, The Atlantic
Ideas

America Is Facing a Dangerous Enemy. We Just Can’t Agree Who It Is

Our ideological adversary is powerful, authoritarian, and spreading. And it is completely different depending on which government officials you’re talking to.

  • Uri Friedman, The Atlantic
Business

Chinese Military Officers Crash US Air Force Conference in Florida

The three officers, armed with cameras, took a stroll around an exhibit hall of new weapons and technology.

  • Marcus Weisgerber
Ideas

Russia Has Deployed a Treaty-Violating Missile. Here’s What the US Should Do About It

Hint: it’s not what we would have done in the 1950s, ’60s, ’70s, or ’80s.

  • Michael Krepon
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