Forty years after Chernobyl, the same culture of concealment and distortion continues to shape Russia’s decisions - with ...

North Korea is building more nuclear weapons and more sophisticated ballistic missiles to target the region and the U.S., while ensuring that they are closely aligned with China and Russia. Basically, ...

The Navy and Coast Guard need to demonstrate that the approach to these [shipbuilding] programs is not a short-term deviation followed by returning to the long-standing business as usual approach.

Javid Ahmad is a counterterrorism research scholar and author of the Threats Leadership Tracker at the Middle East Institute.

For two decades, U.S. drones hunting terrorists across the mountains of South Asia were the symbol of American military power: precise, lethal, and unmatched. That era is now over. Drones are no ...

From Venezuela to Iran, a string of well-timed wagers is exposing how wartime intelligence can be monetized in public view.

Over the past month, U.S. and Israeli operations have killed Iran’s senior leadership, destroyed over 155 naval vessels and roughly 300 ballistic missile launchers, and degraded elements of Iran’s ...

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The Prague SpringBy Bill Rapp/Coffeetown PressReviewed by Kenneth DeklevaThe Reviewer — Dr. Kenneth Dekleva served as a Regional Medical Officer/Psychiatrist with the U.S. Dept. of State from ...

The Department of Defense does not always announce structural shifts loudly; often, it buries them in the dense columns of budget lines where only the most attentive analysts can find the seismic ...

For a decade the cybersecurity community was predicting a cyber apocalypse tied to a single event - the day a Cryptographically Relevant Quantum Computer could run Shor’s algorithm and break the ...