Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology

Congress and defense policy: A conversation with Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EST

Undated handout picture of U.S., Taliban and Qatar officials during a meeting for peace talks in Doha, Qatar. Qatari Foreign Ministry/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.

After the US-Taliban deal, what might negotiations between the Taliban and Afghan side look like?

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Troops in military vehicles take part in the military parade marking the 70th founding anniversary of People's Republic of China, on its National Day in Beijing, China October 1, 2019. REUTERS/Thomas Peter

The left should play the China card

Tarun Chhabra, Scott Moore, and Dominic Tierney

Thursday, February 13, 2020

Solving the civil war in Libya

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST

(right) Meets with King Ibn Saud, of Saudi Arabia, on board USS Quincy (CA-71) in the Great Bitter Lake, Egypt, on 14 February 1945. The King is speaking to the interpreter, Colonel William A. Eddy, USMC. Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, USN, the President's Aide and Chief of Staff, is at left. Note ornate carpet on the ship's deck, and life raft mounted on the side of the 5/38 twin gun mount in the background. Photograph from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

75 years after a historic meeting on the USS Quincy, US-Saudi relations are in need of a true re-think

Monday, February 10, 2020

Supporters of Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) chant slogans as they carry signs and flags during a country-wide protests over the arrest of their leader and student activist Manzoor Pashteen, in Karachi, Pakistan January 28, 2020. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro

Why is Pakistan’s military repressing a huge, nonviolent Pashtun protest movement?

Friday, February 7, 2020

How a modernized Navy will compete with China and Russia

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM EST

An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launches during an operational test from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California at 11:01 p.m. On February 25, 2016. The unarmed Minuteman III missile blasted off from a silo at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California late on Thursday, headed toward a target area near Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands of the South Pacific. REUTERS/Kyla Gifford/U.S. Air Force Photo/Handout via Reuters FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

Don’t let New START die

Thursday, February 6, 2020

An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launches during an operational test at 2:10 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, U.S., August 2, 2017. Picture taken August 2, 2017. To Match Special Report USA-NUCLEAR/ICBM U.S. Air Force/Senior Airman Ian Dudley/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY

Trump’s bid to go big on nuclear arms looks like a fizzle

Wednesday, February 5, 2020

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky shake hands during a joint news conference in Kiev, Ukraine January 31, 2020. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/Pool

Pompeo visited Ukraine. Good. What next?

Monday, February 3, 2020