Threats

The D Brief: Domestic Guard missions, priced; More strikes on Somalia; New ‘non-kinetic’ cell aids planning; GAO’s missile-warning warning; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Ideas

Our allies passed your test, Mr. President. Would we?

A former U.S. infantryman responds to Trump’s amnesiac take on Afghanistan.

  • Micah Ables
Threats

The D Brief: CBP report belies ‘terrorist’ charges; Rubio threatens Venezuelan leaders; ‘Unsustainable’ national-security strategy?; EU, India near trade deal; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Policy

Trump’s national defense strategy is unlike anything that’s come before it

It touts an end to interventionism and regime change, despite adventurism in Venezuela and Greenland.

  • Meghann Myers
Threats

The D Brief: Border Patrol boss out of MN; Misinformation pushback; Carrier reaches CENTCOM; Tariffs pledged on US shipbuilding partner; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Threats

The D Brief: Feds kill again in Minnesota; National Defense Strategy drops; New USAF deployment concept; Space Force wants more troops; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Ideas

Defense One Radio, Ep. 202: The known perils of regime change

A scholar of civil wars warns against repeating the past mistakes from U.S. military interventions abroad.

  • Ben Watson and Monica Duffy Toft
Threats

The D Brief: Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’; Russian hybrid warfare; More Ukraine talks; Combat fitness, reimagined; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson
Ideas

Bombing Iran would shore up its regime

External attacks stir up nationalism and redirect public anger outward, a “rally-around-the-flag” effect long documented by political scientists.

  • Rosemary Kelanic
Threats

Russian hybrid warfare has become indistinguishable from politics

The war of realities in 2026 will determine the reality of war in 2027.

  • Patrick Tucker
Threats

The D Brief: Trump backs down on Greenland; More troops prep for MN deployment; Army tank arrives early; Congress demands Golden Dome answers; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Ideas

Trump’s Greenland threat has already hurt US security—but far worse may come

A hostile takeover would shatter America’s key alliance, limit its military’s global reach, and invite economic reprisal.

  • Norbert Röttgen and Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff
Threats

The D Brief: Trump’s Greenland fixation undermines alliance; Cui bono?; Lawmakers set flat defense budget; How AI went DOD; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Threats

The D Brief: Experts warn of war; Trump’s ‘state terror’; CNO’s upcoming instructions; China’s ‘full-stack’ defense-innovation cities; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Ideas

Trump’s Greenland ambitions could wreck alliances that underpin the modern world order

A former diplomat looks at the president's latest ally-shaking outburst.

  • Donald Heflin, The Conversation
Defense Systems

Trump’s ‘battleship’ could be most expensive US warship in history

Congressional researchers wonder whether BBG(X)’s cost and risks were properly analyzed before its rollout.

  • Thomas Novelly
Threats

The D Brief: Lessons from Iraq; Trump’s Insurrection Act-threat; DIU seeks swarm controllers; Russia’s Starlink drones; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Threats

The D Brief: Europe reinforces Greenland; Senate fails to limit Venezuela action; Navy’s next ships; The cost of ‘DoW’; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Threats

European allies dispatch military reinforcements to Greenland

A White House meeting produced plans for a U.S.-Denmark working group, but no change to Trump's designs on the island.

  • Patrick Tucker
Policy

I ‘did not expect to be told to build a battleship,’ Navy’s surface warfare director says

The Trump administration’s priorities are forcing the service to rethink its shipbuilding plans.

  • Meghann Myers
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