Defense & Security

EU Defense Washington Forum

9:00 AM - Thursday Jul 09, 2020 1:00 PM EDT

Defense Satellite Communication System with Alaska Range at the Ft. Greely missile defense complex in Fort Greely, Alaska, U.S., April 26, 2018. REUTERS/Mark Meyer

The U.S. Defense Space Strategy works on paper, but will it be implemented?

Monday, July 6, 2020

A soldier stands near police officers guarding a crime scene following an assassination attempt of Mexico City's chief of police Omar Garcia Harfuch, at the upscale neighborhood of Lomas de Chapultepec, in Mexico City, Mexico June 26, 2020. REUTERS/Luis Cortes

Mexico’s spiraling criminal market

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Monday, July 6, 2020

The force America needs: Lessons of 2020 and the future of the National Guard

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT

Deligates attend the official dinner at the Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall during the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany July 7, 2017. REUTERS/Kay Nietfeld,Pool

Balancing act: Major powers and the global response to US-China great power competition

Fiona Hill, Tanvi Madan, Amanda Sloat, Mireya Solís, Constanze Stelzenmüller, Bruce Jones, Emilie Kimball, Jesse I. Kornbluth, and Ted Reinert

July 2020

A missile being fired out to sea from a mobile launch vehicle reportedly on the southern coast of Iran along the Gulf of Oman during a military exercise. Iran test-fired a "new generation" of cruise missiles on June 18, the navy said, in the first such military exercises since 19 sailors were killed last month in a friendly fire incident. The armed forces' website published pictures of the exercises in the Gulf of Oman showing missiles being fired from a warship and the back of a truck, and a vessel exploding out at sea. A statement said both short- and long-range missiles were test-fired, some reportedly hitting targets at a distance 280 kilometres (174 miles) away. Gulf of Oman, Iran, June 18, 2020. Photo by SalamPix/ABACAPRESS.COM

Unattainable conditions for New START extension?

Wednesday, July 1, 2020

Iraqi Prime Minister-designate Mustafa al-Kadhimi delivers a speech during the vote on the new government at the parliament headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq, May 7, 2020. Iraqi Parliament Media Office/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.

Was Iraq’s prime minister right to go after an Iranian proxy?

Wednesday, July 1, 2020

Assessing the state of the Air Force: A conversation with General David Goldfein

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT

FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell (R) takes part in an onstage interview with Aspen Institute President and CEO Walter Isaacson (L) at the Washington Ideas Forum in Washington, September 30, 2015. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo

Retired military endorsements erode public trust in the military

Thomas Burke and Eric Reid

Tuesday, June 30, 2020