Consistent with China’s threatening behavior in the South China Sea and its broader strategy for significant...
Dave Patterson
China Lets Coronavirus Spread, Then Tries to Steal the Cure?
Did China hope to steal the cure for the very pandemic they began? According to the FBI and the Cybersecurity and...
Hey Beijing: The South China Sea Is Not Your Lake
What is clearly an information war with China over the Wuhan Coronavirus pandemic becomes something more serious...
What Happens When Cost-Cutters Slash the Defense Budget?
Inside Washington, defense budget watchers and pundits predict sharp cutbacks in the Department of Defense (DoD)...
V-E Day – A Remembrance After 75 Years
"It may seem a paradox to the uninitiated, but the soldier, by choice or the dictates of his draft board, is a...
Libya: More Dangerous than ISIS?
"More dangerous than ISIS," says Marine Corps General Thomas Waldhauser, the Commander of U.S. Africa Command....
Criticism from the Senate Minority: Thoughtful Reproach or Political Tirade?
Ten United States senators – Democrats, every one – sent to Secretary of Defense Mark Esper an eight-page...
Russia and China Making Moves in the Arctic – Can the US Counter?
“[W]hoever holds the Arctic, holds the world. I think it is the most important strategic place in the world.” –...
National Security, the Defense Budget, and You: A Primer (Part 2 of 2)
Remember how the first part of this series outlined the disciplined and structured process to develop the Defense...