Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology

U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin talk before a session of the APEC summit in Danang, Vietnam November 11, 2017. Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. - RC16B5325160

Trump, Putin, and Crimea

Monday, July 9, 2018

Presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador waves as he addresses supporters after polls closed in the presidential election, in Mexico City, Mexico July 1, 2018. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso - RC1BC0E9AAC0

Andrés Manuel López Obrador and a new era of politics in Mexico

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Tuesday, July 3, 2018

U.S. soldiers with Scout Company, 1st Battalion 30th Infantry Regiment line up before an exercise in a range at Patrol Base Murray in the Sunni neighbourhood of Arab Jabour, south Baghdad, October 20, 2007. The area around Patrol Base Murray was known as the Triangle of Death - a very safe area for al-Qaeda in Iraq to ambush Shi'ites, launch mortar and rocket attacks into the Green Zone and rig car bombs, suicide vests and other weapons for use in Baghdad. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (IRAQ) - GM1DWKJHNWAA

1958: When America first went to war in the Middle East

Monday, July 2, 2018

TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, is shown in this conceptual illustration obtained by Reuters on March 28, 2018. NASA plans to send TESS into orbit from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket set for blastoff sometime between April 16 and June on a two-year mission. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. - RC112CF93F70

Not so fast on a space force

Michael E. O’Hanlon

Friday, June 29, 2018

A U.S. Navy personnel walks among F/A 18 aircraft on the flight deck of the USS Theodore Roosevelt at Changi Navy Base in Singapore October 24, 2015. The aircraft carrier and its strike group of 7 ships and 80 aircraft docked in Singapore on Saturday after completing a deployment to the Arabian Gulf for the last 7 months. REUTERS/Edgar Su - GF20000030490

How the ballooning federal debt threatens U.S. defense

Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Members of the Texas National Guard wait for Governor Greg Abbott to speak about security on the Mexico-U.S. border at Sergeant Tomas Garces Texas Army National Guard Armory in Weslaco, Texas, U.S., April 12, 2018. REUTERS/Loren Elliott - RC1FFD3AC1E0

Secretary Mark Esper and the future of the U.S. Army

Monday, June 25, 2018

A U.S. Marine(C) talks with Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers during a training in Helmand province, Afghanistan, July 5, 2017.REUTERS/Omar Sobhani - RC1BC4EF5970

Before you help a fragile state’s military, ask these uncomfortable questions

Friday, June 22, 2018

A battery of U.S manned Patriot missiles protect a nearby British andU.S airbase in Kuwait March 16, 2003. Aircraft from the U.S. andBritain are continuing to enforce the no fly zone over southern Iraq.REUTERS/Russell BoyceRUS - RP3DRILHYNAA

If Trump is serious about addressing the Iranian ballistic missile threat, he should enhance multilateral missile defense cooperation with Gulf states

Wednesday, June 20, 2018

U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un walk together before their working lunch during their summit at the Capella Hotel on the resort island of Sentosa, Singapore June 12, 2018. Picture taken June 12, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RC116285B8A0

Don’t dismiss the Trump-Kim summit so quickly

Michael E. O’Hanlon

Saturday, June 16, 2018

Guards walk on the wreckage of a building destroyed by air strikes in Sanaa, Yemen June 6, 2018. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah - RC15ACE97640

In the face of Hodeidah assault, Yemen is on the brink

Wednesday, June 13, 2018