Defense & Security

Supporters of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden shout anti-American slogans, after the news of his death, during a rally in Quetta May 2, 2011. Bin Laden was killed in a U.S. helicopter raid on a mansion near the Pakistani capital Islamabad early on Monday, officials said, ending a nearly 10-year worldwide hunt for the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks. U.S. officials said bin Laden was found in the million-dollar compound in the military garrison town of Abbottabad, 60 km (35 miles) north of Islamabad. REUTERS/Naseer Ahmed (PAKISTAN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW IMAGES OF THE DAY) - GM1E75300AX01

Al-Qaida today, 18 years after 9/11

Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Venezuelan migrant children play soccer in a camp run by the UN refugee agency UNHCR in Maicao, Colombia May 7, 2019. Picture taken May 7, 2019. REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez - RC144B451E30

Get ready for the Venezuela refugee crisis

Michael E. O’Hanlon and Juan Carlos Pinzón

Tuesday, September 10, 2019

U.S. President Donald Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in visit the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, in Panmunjom, South Korea, June 30, 2019. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque - RC147119FEC0

America should not ask South Korea to host intermediate-range missiles

Michael E. O’Hanlon and Jung H. Pak

Thursday, September 5, 2019

Men board up a business ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Dorian in Cocoa, Florida, U.S., September 1, 2019. REUTERS/Marco Bello - RC182820E550

Another summer of flooding should be a wake-up call to redesign our communities

Tuesday, September 3, 2019

Protesters confront a Kenyan police officer during an anti corruption protest in Nairobi, Kenya, April 30, 2019. REUTERS/Baz Ratner - RC19AB39F5A0

Corruption and terrorism: The case of Kenya

Narrelle Gilchrist and Norman Eisen

Thursday, August 22, 2019

Members of a Taliban delegation, led by chief negotiator Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar (C, front), leave after peace talks with Afghan senior politicians in Moscow, Russia May 30, 2019. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina - RC1C12362C10

Is the Afghanistan deal a good one?

Michael E. O’Hanlon

Friday, August 16, 2019

FILE PHOTO: A Long March-3B rocket carrying Chang'e 4 lunar probe takes off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province, China December 8, 2018. To match Insight SPACE-ARGENTINA/CHINA REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. CHINA OUT. - RC17C71252C0

Highlights: Experts discuss how the US can promote security in outer space

Sonia Alvarez, Josaiah Bonwell, Leah Dreyfuss, and Joseph Stevens

Friday, August 9, 2019

U.S. President Barack Obama, flanked by Defense Secretary Ash Carter (L) and Vice President Joe Biden (2nd L), introduces U.S. Marine Corps General Joseph Dunford (2nd R) as his nominee to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington May 5, 2015. Also pictured is U.S. Air Force General Paul Selva (R), Obama's nominee to be vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - GF10000084856

Military leadership helps bring together an America divided

Michael E. O’Hanlon

Friday, August 9, 2019

U.S. Marines observe an Iranian fast attack craft from USS John P. Murtha during a Strait of Hormuz transit, Arabian Sea off Oman, in this picture released on July 18, 2019. Donald Holbert/U.S. Navy/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS- THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. - RC1FF5621490

Germany should pull together a European naval mission in the Gulf

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Wednesday, August 7, 2019

A photograph circulated by the U.S. State Departments Twitter account to announce a $1 million USD reward for al Qaeda key leader Hamza bin Laden, son of Osama bin Laden, is seen March 1, 2019. State Department/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. - RC19395BB9E0

The death of Hamza bin Laden and the weakness of al-Qaida

Daniel L. Byman

Thursday, August 1, 2019