U.S. Defense

U.S. President Donald Trump takes questions from the media during a news conference after participating in the NATO Summit in Brussels, Belgium July 12, 2018. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque - RC1988096060

As Trump twists NATO’s arm, let’s run the math on defense spending

Robert E. Litan and Roger Noll

Thursday, July 12, 2018

A convoy of U.S. troops, a part of NATO's reinforcement of its eastern flank, who are on their way from Germany to Orzysz in northeast Poland, drive through Sulejowek towards a military base in Wesola, near Warsaw, Poland, March 28, 2017. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel - RC18B77382F0

What Trump gets wrong on allied burden-sharing

Michael E. O’Hanlon

Wednesday, July 11, 2018

American soldiers are seen at the U.S. army base in Qayyara, south of Mosul October 25, 2016. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani - S1AEUJAWFFAA

The new American way of war: Special operations forces in the war on terrorism

Daniel L. Byman and Ian A. Merritt

The Washington Quarterly Summer 2018

LAN network cables plugged into a computer server in Singapore July 26, 2017. REUTERS/Thomas White - RC1BA1A425F0

Wars of none: AI, big data, and the future of insurgency

Monday, July 2, 2018

U.S. soldiers with Scout Company, 1st Battalion 30th Infantry Regiment line up before an exercise in a range at Patrol Base Murray in the Sunni neighbourhood of Arab Jabour, south Baghdad, October 20, 2007. The area around Patrol Base Murray was known as the Triangle of Death - a very safe area for al-Qaeda in Iraq to ambush Shi'ites, launch mortar and rocket attacks into the Green Zone and rig car bombs, suicide vests and other weapons for use in Baghdad. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (IRAQ) - GM1DWKJHNWAA

1958: When America first went to war in the Middle East

Monday, July 2, 2018

TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, is shown in this conceptual illustration obtained by Reuters on March 28, 2018. NASA plans to send TESS into orbit from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket set for blastoff sometime between April 16 and June on a two-year mission. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. - RC112CF93F70

Not so fast on a space force

Michael E. O’Hanlon

Friday, June 29, 2018

A U.S. Navy personnel walks among F/A 18 aircraft on the flight deck of the USS Theodore Roosevelt at Changi Navy Base in Singapore October 24, 2015. The aircraft carrier and its strike group of 7 ships and 80 aircraft docked in Singapore on Saturday after completing a deployment to the Arabian Gulf for the last 7 months. REUTERS/Edgar Su - GF20000030490

How the ballooning federal debt threatens U.S. defense

Wednesday, June 27, 2018

The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) is moored at Changi Naval Base in Singapore April 2, 2018. Picture taken April 2, 2018. U.S. Navy/Marc Ayalin/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY - RC1E37D001F0

Policy roundtable: The pursuit of military superiority

Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Members of the Texas National Guard wait for Governor Greg Abbott to speak about security on the Mexico-U.S. border at Sergeant Tomas Garces Texas Army National Guard Armory in Weslaco, Texas, U.S., April 12, 2018. REUTERS/Loren Elliott - RC1FFD3AC1E0

Secretary Mark Esper and the future of the U.S. Army

Monday, June 25, 2018

A U.S. Marine(C) talks with Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers during a training in Helmand province, Afghanistan, July 5, 2017.REUTERS/Omar Sobhani - RC1BC4EF5970

Before you help a fragile state’s military, ask these uncomfortable questions

Friday, June 22, 2018