Defense & Security

A component of SSC-8/9M729 cruise missile system is on display during a news briefing, organized by Russian defence and foreign ministries, at Patriot Expocentre near Moscow, Russia January 23, 2019. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov - RC136997E7D0

The blame game begins over the INF Treaty’s demise, and Washington is losing

Friday, January 25, 2019

Iraqi President Saddam Hussein addresses the eigth anniversary of the Great Victory Day August 8. In his address marking the ceasefire in the 1980-88 Iraq-Iran war, Saddam rejected Western government accusations that he had spent a fortune on building palaces for himself while his people enjured poverty. He made no mention of his country's oil-for-food deal with the U.N. whose implementation the U.S. approved on Wednesday. - PBEAHUMWIBM

What Iran’s revolution meant for Iraq

Thursday, January 24, 2019

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the Missile Defense Review announcement at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., January 17, 2019. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque - RC1D4E23D950

Brookings experts react to the new Missile Defense Review

Madelyn R. Creedon, Robert Einhorn, Steven Pifer, Frank A. Rose, and Strobe Talbott

Tuesday, January 22, 2019

An unarmed Trident II D5 missile is test-launched from the Ohio-class U.S. Navy ballistic missile submarine USS Nebraska off the coast of California, U.S. March 26, 2018. Picture taken March 26, 2018. U.S. Navy/Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Ronald Gutridge/Handout via REUTERS. ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY - RC18839E3160

Experts discuss the politics of New START and strategic nuclear modernization

Thursday, January 17, 2019

Turkish-backed Syrian rebels walk as they hold their weapons in the town of Tadef in Aleppo Governorate, Syria January 3, 2019. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi - RC1F885BB650

Trump is making the mess in Syria even messier

Thursday, January 17, 2019

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he visits the banks of the Rio Grande River with Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents during the president's visit to the U.S. - Mexico border in Mission, Texas, U.S., January 10, 2019. REUTERS/Leah Millis TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC1CEF41B3C0

Trump’s bogus justifications for the border wall

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Friday, January 11, 2019

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (L) and senior Chinese Communist Party official Liu Yunshan (R) wave during celebration of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang on October 12, 2015. Isolated North Korea marked the 70th anniversary of its ruling Workers' Party on Saturday with a massive military parade overseen by leader Kim Jong Un, who said his country was ready to fight any war waged by the United States. REUTERS/KCNA TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY   ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. REUTERS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS IMAGE. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. THIS PICTURE IS DISTRIBUTED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS. SOUTH KOREA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN SOUTH KOREA. - GF10000241538

In visiting China, Kim Jong-un makes good on New Year’s speech

Wednesday, January 9, 2019

2Lt William Liggett works at the Air Force Space Command Network Operations & Security Center at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado July 20, 2010. U.S. national security planners are proposing that the 21st century's critical infrastructure -- power grids, communications, water utilities, financial networks -- be similarly shielded from cyber marauders and other foes. The ramparts would be virtual, their perimeters policed by the Pentagon and backed by digital weapons capable of circling the globe in milliseconds to knock out targets. To match Special Report USA-CYBERWAR/ REUTERS/Rick Wilking (UNITED STATES - Tags: CRIME LAW MILITARY SCI TECH POLITICS) - GM1E6A51S9901

Re-establishing U.S. Space Command is a great idea

Monday, January 7, 2019

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un gives field guidance during his visit to the under construction Yombunjin Hotel in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang July 17, 2018. KCNA via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. REUTERS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS IMAGE. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. SOUTH KOREA OUT. - RC137035C710

North Korea may be willing to begin denuclearization, and Trump should make a deal

Michael E. O’Hanlon

Monday, January 7, 2019

U.S. forces are seen at the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) headquarters after it was hit by Turkish airstrikes in Mount Karachok near Malikiya, Syria April 25, 2017. REUTERS/ Rodi Said - RC12805A1220

Learning from Trump’s Syria debacle—What Congress can do

John R. Allen and Michael E. O’Hanlon

Monday, January 7, 2019