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Steven Sturges is a research assistant for the Defense Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). Before joining CNAS, he was a ...

While the group’s experts agreed that Putin and his regime maintain a firm grip on power, there is now less certainty about ...

Listen to the full interview on Irregular Warfare Initiative. Executive Summary The United States is home to 17.3 million veterans in 2026—a population that has declined from 21.0 million in 2015, as ...

The last few months have been littered with incidents of AI systems acting in harmful ways against human intent. Speed is also coming at the cost of security, leaving companies’ valuable intellectual ...

This report examines the potential utility of lower-cost long-range one-way attack drones or cheap cruise missiles for standoff strikes in a war ...

When Washington's de facto ambassador to Taiwan, Raymond Greene, explained the Trump administration's approach to ...

In the latest episode of “Talking Trade,” Rachel Ziemba of Ziemba Insights says a recent state meeting between President Donald Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping “may not give as much certainty ...

The war against Iran is putting new strains on U.S. military readiness by consuming munitions and missile defense interceptors, as well as through extended deployments, ...

This article was originally published in Foreign Policy.

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