Did China hope to steal the cure for the very pandemic they began? According to the FBI and the Cybersecurity and...
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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...
National Security, the Defense Budget, and You: A Primer – Part 1
Building the Defense Budget Tired of binge-watching Netflix? Exhausted by trying to find the progressive...