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Seahawk, a medium uncrewed surface vessel prototype, departs Naval Base Point Loma, California, on August 6, 2025. (US Navy)

Commentary

One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Building US Navy Hedges Against Rising Threats

Bryan Clark

Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology

Bryan Clark

Commentary

Dec 8, 2025

Commentary

11 Min Read

People look at an Iranian-designed Shahed 136, (Geranium-2) drone of Russian Army at an open-air exhibition of destroyed Russian equipment near Saint Michael's Golden-Domed Cathedral in Kyiv on November 2, 2025, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP) (Photo by SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images)

People look at a Shahed 136 drone of the Russian Army near Saint Michael's Golden-Domed Cathedral in Kyiv on November 2, 2025. (Getty Images)

Commentary

Ukraine Military Situation Report | December 3

Can Kasapoğlu

Senior Fellow (Nonresident)

Can Kasapoğlu

Commentary

Dec 3, 2025

Commentary

4 Min Read

A soldier from an artillery crew of the Striletskyi special forces police battalion of the Main Department of the National Police in Zaporizhzhia region aims a 122-mm howitzer D-30 to fire at the positions of Russian troops in the Pokrovsk direction in Donetsk region, Ukraine, on November 20, 2025. (Photo by Dmytro Smolienko/Ukrinform/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NO USE RUSSIA. NO USE BELARUS.

A Ukrainian soldier aims at Russian troops in Pokrovsk, Ukraine, on November 20, 2025. (Getty Images)

Commentary

Ukraine Military Situation Report | November 26

Can Kasapoğlu

Senior Fellow (Nonresident)

Can Kasapoğlu

Commentary

Nov 26, 2025

Commentary

4 Min Read

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks to reporters in Tokyo on November 21, 2025. (Getty Images)

Commentary

To Reframe Taiwan, Washington Should Heed Japan’s Takaichi

Miles Yu

Senior Fellow and Director, China Center

Miles Yu

Commentary

Nov 24, 2025

Commentary

4 Min Read

US Air Force F-35A Lightning IIs and Israeli Air Force F-35I Adirs fly in formation during exercise Enduring Lightning III over Israel on October 12, 2020. (US Air Force)

Commentary

How Israel’s Victory Strengthens America’s Hand

Zineb Riboua

Research Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East

Zineb Riboua

Commentary

Nov 20, 2025

Commentary

7 Min Read

French President Emmanuel Macron welcomes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on November 17, 2025, in Paris, France. (Getty Images)

Commentary

Ukraine Military Situation Report | November 19

Can Kasapoğlu

Senior Fellow (Nonresident)

Can Kasapoğlu

Commentary

Nov 19, 2025

Commentary

5 Min Read

An intelligence specialist activates a Skydio X2 small unmanned aerial system to survey the defensive line for opposing forces during a simulated assault and seizure at Glen Airfield in Queensland, Australia, in July 2025. (US Marine Corps)

Commentary

Commercial Innovation, Not Government Production, Will Win the Drone War

Nadia Schadlow

Senior Fellow

Nadia Schadlow

Commentary

Nov 19, 2025

Commentary

5 Min Read

(School of War)

Podcast

The Ukrainian Way of War

Aaron MacLean

Former Senior Fellow

Aaron MacLean

Podcast

Nov 18, 2025

Podcast

AH-64 Apache helicopters depart a forward arming and refueling point to conduct aerial gunnery tables at Pabradė Training Area in Lithuania on September 9, 2025. (US Army)

Commentary

As We Await the Pentagon’s Posture Review, Here’s One Country We Should Keep Troops In

Luke Coffey

Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia

Luke Coffey

Commentary

Nov 18, 2025

Commentary

4 Min Read

(Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe)

Testimony

Deterrence on NATO’s Eastern Flank

Peter Rough

Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Europe and Eurasia

Peter Rough

Testimony

Nov 17, 2025

Testimony

13 Min Read

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth delivers a speech ahead of the arrival of President Donald Trump aboard USS George Washington on October 28, 2025, in Yokosuka, Japan. (Getty Images)

Commentary

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