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Secretary Pete Hegseth's directive to trim 20% of the four-star ranks is a necessary first step, but it risks becoming another exercise in "reorganizing the deck chairs" if the underlying ...

Washington is deploying a disruptive statecraft thatpushes competitors and allies alike to their limits. On a wargame table, decisiveness is not about having the strongest pieces. It is about ...

In an era of persistent cyber competition, the Department of Defense faces a dual challenge: raising cybersecurity standards across the defense industrial base (DIB) while ensuring those standards ...

By decisively consolidating his personal power, President Xi Jinping's latest purge of senior military leadership increases strategic risk for Australia and the rest of the Indo-Pacific. The ...

View PDF On January 8, 2020, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Iran's praetorian guard that the United States has designated as a foreign terrorist organization, conducted a ...