Defense Budget

The U.S. foreign-policy establishment shouldn’t balk at pledges to roll back national security commitments.

The U.S. president’s 2020 budget request is especially harsh on the U.N. and refugees. Democrats call it “dead on arrival.”

Arguments about defense spending should be focused on foreign policy and what the military actually wants to do.

The military’s funding boost is aimed at deterring Beijing, but a budget fight could jeopardize the strategy.

Spending 4 percent of the EU’s GDP on defense would boost sagging economies and protect the continent at a time when U.S. leadership is lacking.

President Eisenhower confronted the unprecedented nuclear threat of the 1950s with a novel exercise. The United States needs a similar approach to tackle today's cyber threats.

The Pentagon always complains for more money – and politicians always eventually give in.

With elections looming in May and the Islamic State on the run, the Popular Mobilization Forces are eyeing politics.

As its rivals invest in new military hardware, Washington is stuck refurbishing obsolete equipment.

The 2018 National Defense Strategy has its priorities straight. But budgetary challenges could get in the way.

On the chopping block: incident response teams, air marshals, and nuclear detection.

When China complained about a plan for the Navy to make port calls in Taiwan, Congress listened.

Donald Trump promised a bigger defense budget, but the Pentagon is still waiting.

As our federal debt spirals up and up, military readiness will inevitably suffer.

If the United States wants to remain ahead of the forthcoming cyberwars, it’s going to need a new generation of leaders.

Sunday’s Oscar snafu was the perfect summary of the world we live in today. Is this the new norm in Trump’s America?

Money will not fix what ails our military. We don't have a supply problem, we have a demand problem created by poor strategy.

The continent can't blame Trump for its long-running inability to take care of its own security.

If you needed reassurance that Mattis not just knows NATO but feels it, you got that in his remarks on Wednesday.

Secretary Mattis is not wrong when he says that Europeans should not expect Americans to care more about Europe's security than Europeans themselves do.