National Security

Central Intelligence Agency Director Mike Pompeo speaks at The Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, U.S. April 13, 2017. REUTERS/Eric Thayer - RC147D6B9C90

What should the Senate ask Secretary of State nominee Mike Pompeo?

Seeking solutions for Somalia

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT

A Yemeni soldier looks as a UAE military helicopter hover over the sea during the search for the wreckage of a crashed UAE military helicopter off the southern city of Aden, Yemen, June 13, 2016. REUTERS/Fawaz Salman - RTX2G1FN

Putting the Yemen Resolution in Procedural Context

Scott R. Anderson and Molly E. Reynolds

Lawfare March 9, 2018

Detainees at Camp Delta at the U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba exercise in Camp 3, July 28, 2004. Preparations are nearing completion on the Naval base for war crimes tribunals, the first held by the United States since the World War II era. The proceedings are expected to begin within months. U.S. military censors reviewed photographs from inside the prison. - RTXMSXU

Something is Rotten with the State of the Military Commissions

Scott R. Anderson

Lawfare March 2, 2018

"It could be 'one of the most important steps toward increasing transparency in U.S. national security policy in decades.'"

Scott R. Anderson Defense One March 11, 2018

Scott Anderson is a guest on Rational Security episode #156: The “Rex, Eat the Salad” edition.

Scott R. Anderson

Rational Security

Lebanese Army soldiers ride on their military vehicles in Ras Baalbek

America’s track record in building foreign militaries

Mara Karlin and Fred Dews

Friday, February 23, 2018

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg talks at the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, February 16, 2018. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle - UP1EE2G179NWO

A weekend for ignoring signs of doom

Tuesday, February 20, 2018

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks regarding the Administration's National Security Strategy at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington D.C., U.S. December 18, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

“America first” means America alone

Constanze Stelzenmüller

February 2018

The Trump administration’s Nuclear Posture Review: Continuity and change

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST