Defense & Security

U.S. and North Korean national flags are seen during the meeting of U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa island in Singapore June 12, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RC1C1F358640

Since Singapore: Letting North Korea off the hook

Jeffrey A. Bader and Ryan Hass

Tuesday, July 17, 2018

U.S. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump arrive aboard Air Force One, for their first official visit to Britain, at Stansted Airport, Britain, July 12, 2018. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls - RC1138DA3BE0

Around the halls: Brookings experts react to the Trump-Putin meeting and NATO summit

Thomas Wright, Alina Polyakova, Constanze Stelzenmüller, Steven Pifer, Pavel K. Baev, Amanda Sloat, Célia Belin, Kemal Kirişci, and Tarun Chhabra

Monday, July 16, 2018

U.S. President Donald Trump looks on as he holds a news conference after participating in the NATO Summit in Brussels, Belgium July 12, 2018. REUTERS/Reinhard Krause - RC11028C7550

NATO’s global peace is unraveling and we can’t see it

Sunday, July 15, 2018

U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to hold a news conference after participating in the NATO Summit in Brussels, Belgium July 12, 2018. REUTERS/Yves Herman - RC1FC1274000

Should NATO even hold summits under Trump?

Derek Chollet and Amanda Sloat

Friday, July 13, 2018

A convoy of U.S. troops, a part of NATO's reinforcement of its eastern flank, who are on their way from Germany to Orzysz in northeast Poland, drive through Sulejowek towards a military base in Wesola, near Warsaw, Poland, March 28, 2017. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel - RC18B77382F0

What Trump gets wrong on allied burden-sharing

Michael E. O’Hanlon

Wednesday, July 11, 2018

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg gestures as he gives a news conference ahead of a summit that will gather leaders of the 29 alliance members in Brussels, Belgium, July 10 2018. REUTERS/Reinhard Krause - RC14D4F06960

An inconvenient truth: Addressing democratic backsliding within NATO

Jonathan Katz and Torrey Taussig

Tuesday, July 10, 2018

NATO flag flutters next to the U.S. Air Force F-35A Lightning II fighter in Amari air base, Estonia, April 25, 2017. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins - RC165C115260

Adapting the NATO alliance now and together

Monday, July 9, 2018

Seated with members of his Cabinet, U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (L) at the White House in Washington. U.S., May 17, 2018. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque - RC1BBC3BA300

Trump’s meaningless NATO spending debate

Monday, July 9, 2018

LAN network cables plugged into a computer server in Singapore July 26, 2017. REUTERS/Thomas White - RC1BA1A425F0

Wars of none: AI, big data, and the future of insurgency

Monday, July 2, 2018

U.S. soldiers with Scout Company, 1st Battalion 30th Infantry Regiment line up before an exercise in a range at Patrol Base Murray in the Sunni neighbourhood of Arab Jabour, south Baghdad, October 20, 2007. The area around Patrol Base Murray was known as the Triangle of Death - a very safe area for al-Qaeda in Iraq to ambush Shi'ites, launch mortar and rocket attacks into the Green Zone and rig car bombs, suicide vests and other weapons for use in Baghdad. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (IRAQ) - GM1DWKJHNWAA

1958: When America first went to war in the Middle East

Monday, July 2, 2018