National Security

Joint Chiefs Chairman General Mark Milley and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin testify before a House Armed Services Committee hearing on "Department of Defense's Budget Requests for FY2023”, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., April 5, 2022. REUTERS/Tom Brenner

As Biden administration’s defense budget and National Defense Strategy emerge, concerns abound

Wednesday, April 13, 2022

A US Air Force pararescueman assigned to the 57th Rescue Squadron performs dynamic hoist training with an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter in Romania on Wednesday March 9, 2022 during joint training missions with the Romanian air force in support of the NATO alliance. The U.S. military ordered the deployment of 500 additional troops to Europe, pushing the total number of American forces on the continent to about 100,000 as it seeks to deter Russia from broadening its unprovoked war in Ukraine, Pentagon officials said Monday. (US DOD/EYEPRESS)

Mind the escalation aversion: Managing risk without losing the initiative in the Russia-Ukraine war

Amy J. Nelson and Alexander H. Montgomery

Friday, March 11, 2022

People cross the railways as they try to catch an evacuation train at Kyiv central train station, Ukraine, on March 2, 2022. On the seventh day of Russia invading Ukraine. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

A Hail Mary on Ukraine

Michael E. O’Hanlon

Thursday, March 3, 2022

Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz attend a joint news conference in Moscow, Russia February 15, 2022. Sputnik/Sergey Guneev/Kremlin via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.

Scholz holds his ground in Putin’s den

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Hard landing: Why the 5G rollout was so contentious and what we can learn from it

Wednesday, February 2, 2022

A motorist passes by a wall with a graffiti of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) in El Aguaje after the visit of Vatican's ambassador to Mexico Franco Coppola to the area and to the municipality of Aguililla, an area where the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) and local drug gangs are fighting to control the territory, in Michoacan state, Mexico April 23, 2021. REUTERS/Alan Ortega

Nonstate armed actors in 2022: Alive and powerful in the new geopolitics

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Plastic bags covering fuel pumps to signal no gas is available is seen at a 7-Eleven gas station after a cyberattack crippled the biggest fuel pipeline in the country, run by Colonial Pipeline, in Lakeland, Florida, U.S. May 14, 2021. REUTERS/Octavio Jones

Cascading chaos: Nonstate actors and AI on the battlefield

Sarah Kreps and Richard Li

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the Harpa Concert Hall, on the sidelines of the Arctic Council Ministerial summit, in Reykjavik, Iceland, May 19, 2021. Saul Loeb/Pool via REUTERS

Lessons from Ukraine for the Arctic: Russian “dialogue” isn’t always what it seems

Jeremy Greenwood

Monday, January 31, 2022

A general view of the International Spy Museum

TechTank Podcast Episode 36: How digital technology is reshaping espionage and intelligence-gathering

Darrell M. West

Monday, January 24, 2022

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock attend a joint news conference following their meeting in Moscow, Russia January 18, 2022. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/Pool

Energy trilemma causes a headache for Germany’s new leaders

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Tuesday, January 18, 2022