National Security

A Sri Lankan soldier walks past a burnt shop after a mob attack in Kottampitiya, Sri Lanka May 14, 2019. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte - RC11D04F5E40

Terrorism & Extremism

You can’t defeat tomorrow’s terrorists by fighting yesterday’s enemy

Daniel L. Byman

Thursday, May 16, 2019

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

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM EDT

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

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

International Affairs

Trans-Atlantic Scorecard – April 2019

Friday, April 19, 2019

Reports

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

U.S. soldiers from D Troop of the 3rd Cavalry Regiment walk on hill after finishing with a training exercise near forward operating base Gamberi in the Laghman province of Afghanistan

U.S. Defense

Recommendations for future national defense strategy

December 2017

Blog Posts

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

An employee with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checks the documents of a traveler at Reagan National Airport in Washington, U.S., January 6, 2019. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts - RC1299538A70

Order from Chaos

During a government shutdown, we’re not paying our protectors

Adam Twardowski and Michael E. O’Hanlon

Monday, January 28, 2019

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Events

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

Assessing the readiness of the U.S. military

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM 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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