In 1972, Chairman Mao Zedong hosted President Richard Nixon in Beijing to establish diplomatic relations. The visit ended China's isolation, ended the Sino-Soviet alliance, and freed America to focus ...

Refrigerators are probably the last thing anyone would consider a national security vulnerability, which is precisely why the unusual refrigeration failures at U.S. military commissaries deserve more ...

Has the intellectual culture within the Marine Corps deteriorated to the point that it needs to institute a prize for intellectual courage? A recent Wall Street Journal article by Roland Fryer a ...

Future warfare won’t be entirely robotic. Yes, people will gradually disappear from battlefield environments where speed, endurance, distance, precision or physical danger overwhelmingly favour ...

Nearly every night during my 2010 deployment to Afghanistan, we gathered on the flight line for a fallen soldier ceremony. We stood together to honor American and NATO service members who had given th ...

North Korea launched two short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea on Sunday, South Korea’s military said, days after the North threatened to bolster its nucl ...

The Congressional Budget Office is charged by Congress to carefully examine the spending implications of government funded programs including those in the Department of War. Some decades ago, CB ...

What decades in the field taught me about trust, judgment, and the risks of engagement The first Russians I ever met were supposed to be my adversaries. I was fifteen years old when I climbed the gang ...

Precision for Today’s Target, Not Yesterday’s From Operation Midnight Hammer to last week’s strikes on Iran, U.S. forces have shown they can turn years of preparation into seconds of ...

For decades, the U.S. military treated space largely as an enabler of power on Earth. Satellites helped troops communicate, guided precision weapons, and provided intelligence. Today, those systems ar ...

Ukrainian forces fired more than 1,000 drones at Russia overnight, including hundreds that were launched toward Moscow, officials said Sunday as the Kremlin was wrapping up the third and last day of i ...

On 14 September, U.S. Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink publicly announced that the U.S. Space Force had deployed ‘space control weapons’ in response to growing threats to American an ...