National Security

Chart: China emerges as top oil importer

Brookings Now

Charts of the Week: National security

Thursday, July 18, 2019

A commercial plane flies past the Pentagon as security watch from the roof September 11, 2008. A ceremony dedicating the first major permanent U.S. memorial to commemorate the September 11 attacks, where 184 victims died in the assault on the Pentagon, will be held Thursday. REUTERS/Jason Reed (UNITED STATES) - GM1E49B1M3S01

Order from Chaos

The case for gender diversity in national security

Heather Hurlburt and Tamara Cofman Wittes

Wednesday, July 10, 2019

A view shows the business centre Lakhta-2, which reportedly houses news organizations and internet research companies, known for the trolling on social media, in St. Petersburg, Russia February 20, 2018. REUTERS/Anton Vaganov - UP1EE2K1JLNQV

Russia

Lessons from the Mueller report on Russian political warfare

Alina Polyakova

Thursday, June 20, 2019

U.S. Marines jump from a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter into the Gulf of Aden near the USS Iwo Jima during a training exercise in this undated Department of Defense photo released June 10, 2015. REUTERS/U.S. Dept of Defense/Handout THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - TM3EB6A0MXT01

Defense & Security

How Shanahan’s exit from the Department Of Defense will impact national security

Michael E. O’Hanlon

Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Reports

British Prime Minister Theresa May and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker look at each other during a news conference in Strasbourg, France March 11, 2019. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler - RC17106DF9E0

Report

Trans-Atlantic Scorecard – April 2019

Friday, April 19, 2019

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the Paris Peace Forum

Report

Trans-Atlantic Scorecard – January 2019

Friday, January 18, 2019

Personnel work 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: MILITARY SCI TECH POLITICS) - GM1E6A51SA301

Technology & Innovation

The implications of artificial intelligence for national security strategy

Thursday, November 1, 2018

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and U.S. President Donald Trump

Report

Trans-Atlantic Scorecard – September 2018

Monday, September 17, 2018

President Trump's National Security Strategy highlighted

National Security

Brookings experts on Trump’s National Security Strategy

Thursday, December 21, 2017

Blog Posts

File photo of U.S. President Ronald Reagan (R) and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev signing the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty at the White House, on December 8 1987. Reagan was elected as the 40th U.S. president in 1980. Former U.S. President Reagan's health is deteriorating and he could have only weeks to live, a U.S. source close to the situation said on June 4, 2004. Reagan, now 93, has long suffered from the brain-wasting Alzheimer's disease. The source said Reagan's condition had worsened in the past week. "The time is getting close," he said. REUTERS/Dennis Paquin/FILE DP/GN - RP5DRIDACHAA

Order from Chaos

With US-Russian arms control treaties on shaky ground, the future is worrying

Thursday, April 25, 2019

DATE IMPORTED: January 23, 2019 Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan attend a news conference after their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia January 23, 2019. Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.

Order from Chaos

Turkey’s purchase of Russian missile-defense system will be ‘paradigm shifting’ for its relations with the US

Ömer Taşpınar

Wednesday, April 3, 2019

The children of Orfa, a migrant from Honduras, Rachel (second L), Carolina (second R) and Bayron (R), walk to a park to play with neighbours Jose (L) and Jefferson (C) in Texico, New Mexico, U.S., November 30, 2018. REUTERS/Loren Elliott SEARCH "ELLIOTT ORFA" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. - RC1CBD42DD70

The Avenue

Trump’s wall will not prevent America’s diversity boom

William H. Frey

Friday, February 15, 2019

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Events

A conversation with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dunford

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM EDT

The Senkaku paradox: Risking great power war over small stakes

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM EDT

A legacy of service: 9/11 veterans continuing the tradition of George H.W. Bush and John McCain

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM EDT

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Related Books

Building Militaries in Fragile States: Challenges for the United States

By Mara Karlin

2017

Beyond Snowden

By Timothy H. Edgar

2017

Countering Terrorism

By Martha Crenshaw and Gary LaFree

2017

Multimedia

A woman exits the voting booth after filling out her ballot for the U.S presidential election at the James Weldon Johnson Community Center in the East Harlem neighbourhood of Manhattan, New York City, U.S. November 8, 2016. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly - D1BEULQVQHAB

2018 Midterms

The real security threat to the 2018 midterm elections is low voter confidence

Susan Hennessey

Friday, October 19, 2018

Lebanese Army soldiers ride on their military vehicles in Ras Baalbek

U.S. Foreign Policy

America’s track record in building foreign militaries

Mara Karlin and Fred Dews

Friday, February 23, 2018

An unarmed AGM-86B Air-Launched Cruise Missile is released from a B-52H Stratofortress over the Utah Test and Training Range during a Nuclear Weapons System Evaluation Program sortie, 80miles west of Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S., September 22, 2014. Picture taken September 22, 2014. To Match Special Report USA-NUCLEAR/MODERNIZE Air Force/Staff Sgt. Roidan Carlson/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. - RC135B6E2810

U.S. Defense

Are Trump’s nuclear ambitions feasible?

Friday, February 9, 2018

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