Defense & Security

Defending NATO’s eastern flank: A conversation on Russia with Estonia’s minister of defense

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EST

Congress and defense policy: A conversation with Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EST

How a modernized Navy will compete with China and Russia

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM EST

Afghan senior politicians and members of a Taliban delegation attend peace talks in Moscow, Russia May 30, 2019. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina

Good deals — and bad ones — with the Taliban

John R. Allen, Saad Mohseni, and Michael E. O’Hanlon

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump stand with Indian President Ram Nath Kovind and his wife Savita Kovind during the playing of the national anthem at a state banquet at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi, India February 25, 2020. Alex Brandon/Pool via REUTERS - RC2R7F968Z6E

The Indian side thinks optics is a deliverable during Trump visit

Thursday, February 20, 2020

Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee James Inhofe (R-OK) speaks with Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) during a hearing examining military housing on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., December 3, 2019. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

In an era of partisan rancor, Republicans and Democrats seem to agree on overall defense policy

Michael E. O’Hanlon

Thursday, February 20, 2020

Undated file photos of (left to right) Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russia's Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump of the US who have topped the world's most powerful people annual list produced by business magazine Forbes.

Russia’s shifting views of multilateral nuclear arms control with China

Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Soldiers stand outside a safe house, where five people were shot dead during an operation on Friday to recapture the world's top drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, at Jiquilpan Boulevard in Los Mochis, in Sinaloa state, Mexico, January 9, 2016. Mexico's government aims to fulfill a request from the United States to extradite the newly-recaptured drug lord Guzman to face drug trafficking charges, sources familiar with the situation said on Saturday. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido

Mexico needs better law enforcement, but the solution isn’t opportunistic decapitation

Vanda Felbab-Brown

February 14, 2020

FILE PHOTO: Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidates former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Senator Elizabeth Warren, former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders participate in the eighth Democratic 2020 presidential debate at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, U.S., February 7, 2020. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo

The real progressive-centrist divide on foreign policy

Wednesday, February 19, 2020