Defense & Security

Flower tributes are pictured outside Al-Noor mosque after it was reopened in Christchurch, New Zealand March 23, 2019. REUTERS/Edgar Su

Reflections on the Christchurch commission report

Daniel L. Byman

Wednesday, December 16, 2020

The U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Porter sails in formation during the multinational maritime exercise Sea Breeze 2020, co-hosted by Ukraine and the United States, in the Black Sea July 25, 2020. Ukrainian Defence Ministry/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY

The Black Sea: How America can avoid a great-power conflict

Philip Breedlove and Michael E. O’Hanlon

Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Florida, United States.- On Sunday, December 13, at 12:30 pm EST, Falcon 9 launched the Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) SXM-7 mission at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, SpaceX's 25th mission in 2020. The satellite, weighing about seven tons, belongs to the US radio station Sirius-XM, which broadcasts music and entertainment programs.

What you may have missed in the new National Space Policy

Michael Sinclair

Monday, December 14, 2020

Retired U.S. General Lloyd Austin speaks after U.S. President-elect Joe Biden announced Austin as his nominee to be defense secretary during a news conference at his transition headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., December 9, 2020. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Around the halls: Brookings experts on defense react to the nomination of Gen. Lloyd Austin

Michael E. O’Hanlon, Bruce Riedel, Tom Stefanick, and Caitlin Talmadge

Thursday, December 10, 2020

Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller testifies to the House Intelligence Committee at a hearing on the Office of Special Counsel's investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., July 24, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

The meddlers: Moscow’s and Washington’s covert campaigns

Foreign Affairs January/February 2021

Insecurity in northeast Nigeria and beyond

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM EST

Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador listens to the national anthem as he arrives to address the nation on his second anniversary as President of Mexico, at the National Palace in Mexico City, Mexico, December 1, 2020. REUTERS/Henry Romero

The upcoming friction in US-Mexico relations

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Friday, December 4, 2020

A Russian Yars intercontinental ballistic missile system drives during the Victory Day Parade in Red Square in Moscow, Russia, June 24, 2020. The military parade, marking the 75th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, was scheduled for May 9 but postponed due to the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Host photo agency/Iliya Pitalev via REUTERS

Starting off on the right foot: Biden’s near-term arms control and strategic policy challenge

Friday, December 4, 2020

Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Japan's Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, Australia's Foreign Minister Marise Payne and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pose for a picture prior the Quad ministerial meeting in Tokyo, Japan October 6, 2020. Kiyoshi Ota/Pool via REUTERS

South Korea and Indo-Pacific security: Beyond the Quad

Lindsey W. Ford

November 2020

A conversation with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark A. Milley

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST