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An aerial view of the Pentagon in Washington August 31, 2010. REUTERS/Jason Reed

Toward a concept of good civilian guidance

Alice Hunt Friend and Mara Karlin

Friday, May 29, 2020

A passenger is seen through a window of a tram, which drives past a banner spread out by Greenpeace activists during a protest against the arrival of "Mikhail Dudin" cargo ship reportedly carrying nuclear wastes from Germany in Saint Petersburg, Russia November 28, 2019. REUTERS/Anton Vaganov

Don’t resume nuclear testing

Thursday, May 28, 2020

Police officers from the NYPD salute as the U.S. Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort departs Pier 90 in Manhattan under heavy fog to return to its home port of Norfolk, Virginia, after treating patients during the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) in New York City New York, U.S., April 30, 2020. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Reopening America: Immediate domestic law enforcement priorities

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Thursday, May 28, 2020

Handout file photo dated March 15, 2020 of tthe aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt in the China Sea. Brett Crozier, captain of nuclear aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt, with more than 100 sailors infected with the coronavirus pleaded Monday with U.S. Navy officials for resources to allow isolation of his entire crew and avoid possible deaths in a situation he described as quickly deteriorating. Photo by US Navy via ABACAPRESS.COM

Reopening America: The military never closed

Michael E. O’Hanlon

Thursday, May 28, 2020

Inmates of the Topo Chico prison, which will be closed soon to be used as a public park, are pictured inside of a new prison in the municipality of Apodaca, Mexico September 28, 2019. REUTERS/Daniel Becerril

Mexico’s prisons, COVID-19, and the amnesty law

Vanda Felbab-Brown

May 22, 2020

Sap oozes from poppies after they are scratched, a process to get opium from poppies, in a village outside Balkh province, about 500 km (310 miles) north of Kabul May 6, 2006. The illegal narcotics trade dominates Afghanistan's economy, accounting for 60 percent of its gross domestic product and 87 percent of the world's supply. Heroin and morphine are derived from opium, which comes from poppies. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood

Heroin’s journey during COVID

Vanda Felbab-Brown, Jack Meegan-Vickers, Tariq M. Khosa, Ben Crabtree, Jason Eligh, and Simone Haysom

The Impact

Friday, May 22, 2020

UNITED STATES - APRIL 18: A Maryland Capitol Police lieutenant oversees demonstrators demanding that Gov. Larry Hogan (R) lift restrictions that have closed certain businesses in Maryland since the coronavirus outbreak on Church Circle in Annapolis, Md., on Saturday, April 18, 2020. The event titled Operation Gridlock Annapolis was hosted by the Patriot Picket and Reopen Maryland. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

US policing after wave one of COVID-19

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Webinar: The future of high-tech warfare

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The F-22 Raptor takes off for its maiden flight at the Lockheed Martin facility at Dobbins Air Force Base in Marietta, Georgia September 7. The $100 million dollar stealth fighter/bomber, built by the team of Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Pratt & Whittney, will run 8,690 tests during its first flight.

How COVID-19 might affect US nuclear weapons and planning

Monday, May 18, 2020

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi uses his mobile phone at his office in Baghdad, Iraq May 9, 2020. Picture taken May 9, 2020. Iraqi Prime Minister Media Office/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.

Iraq and the US still need each other

Michael E. O’Hanlon and Sara Allawi

Monday, May 18, 2020