defense spending

Inflated threats, concealed costs, and lack of accountability for failure—and the complicity of the foreign-policy establishment—have kept the infinity war going for 18 years.

Washington has abandoned the Kurds. If Europe doesn’t bolster its defenses, the Poles, Lithuanians, and Latvians could be next. 

To pull its weight, it needs to start seeing itself as a normal country, subject to the same pressures as all its neighbors.

Donald Trump and Mike Pompeo have made it clear that the United States is no longer committed to protecting Europe. The need for a viable pan-European defense force has never been greater.

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

On NATO’s 70th anniversary, it is time for burden shedding—not burden sharing.

A fight over defense spending could soon split Germany’s ruling coalition.

Mikheil Saakashvili’s country was a victim of Putin’s aggression. Finland and Sweden won’t be.

Faced with China’s increasing aggression, Japan must invest in fifth-generation fighter jets to deter Beijing’s expansion.

The White House’s annual budget request would give the Defense Department even more than it hoped for.

China, Russia, and the United States are approaching the long-term strategic potential of artificial intelligence very differently. The country that gets it right will reap huge military benefits.

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

The U.S. president had been calling for cuts in recent months.

In the 1980s, the United States embraced a brutal Middle Eastern tyrant simply because he opposed Iran. Washington should not repeat the same mistake today.

Washington must not ignore atrocities against the country’s Anglophones. It should use existing U.S. laws to force an end to the violence.

The U.S. Defense Department and big tech need each other—but getting along won’t be easy

With the Arctic melting and northern coast guards struggling to keep up, the next disaster is a matter of when, not if.

Remembering the era of portable atomic bombs.

Decrypting nine new military programs that will change the face of battle.

Steve Bannon is trying to sell Trumpism to Eastern Europeans—but shared ideologies die hard when they run into economic and military realities.