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U.S. troops deploy for Europe from Pope Army Airfield at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, on February 3, 2022. (Photo by ALLISON JOYCE/AFP via Getty Images)

Commentary

Time to Increase Defense Spending

Walter Russell Mead

Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship

Walter Russell Mead

Feb 8, 2022

Commentary

1 Min Read

In the Media

The Nuclear Nonproliferation Implications of the AUKUS Deal

Bryan Clark

Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology

Bryan Clark

Feb 7, 2022

In the Media

$T-72B3 tanks of the Russian Southern Military District's 150th Rifle Division take part in a military exercise at Kadamovsky Range. (Photo by Erik Romanenko\TASS via Getty Images)$

T-72B3 tanks of the Russian Southern Military District's 150th Rifle Division take part in a military exercise at Kadamovsky Range. (Photo by Erik Romanenko\TASS via Getty Images)

Commentary

Russia Is Teaching a Master Class in ‘Decision-Centric' Warfare

Bryan Clark

Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology

Dan Patt

Senior Fellow, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology

Bryan Clark & Dan Patt

Jan 28, 2022

Commentary

4 Min Read

In the Media

‘Military Crisis’ Developing in Ukraine

Peter Rough

Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Europe and Eurasia

Peter Rough

Jan 24, 2022

In the Media

Chinese soldiers during the rehearsal of the military parade to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China on October 1, 2019 in Beijing, China. (Photo by the Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)

Commentary

How The United States Needs To Start Deterring China From Taking Over Taiwan

Rebeccah L. Heinrichs

Senior Fellow and Director, Keystone Defense Initiative

Rebeccah L. Heinrichs

Jan 21, 2022

Commentary

8 Min Read

Mazie Hirono (D-HI) and Rear Adm. John Fuller, commander of Navy Region Hawaii and Naval Surface Group Middle Pacific, tour Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility in Honolulu, Hawaii. (U.S. Navy)

Commentary

The Problems at Red Hill in Hawaii Are Just the Start of DOD’s Infrastructure Liabilities

Timothy A. Walton

Senior Fellow, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology

Timothy A. Walton

Jan 19, 2022

Commentary

4 Min Read

Commentary

Transcript: Countering Russian Aggression: US Policy Options

William Schneider

Senior Fellow

Bryan Clark

Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology

Marshall Billingslea

Senior Fellow

Peter Rough

Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Europe and Eurasia

William Schneider, Bryan Clark, Marshall Billingslea & Peter Rough

Jan 18, 2022

Commentary

1 Min Read

B-2A Spirit bomber. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Bennie J. Davis III)

Commentary

Nuclear Weapons, China, and a Strategic Defense Initiative for this Century

Michael R. Pompeo

Former Distinguished Fellow

Michael R. Pompeo

Jan 18, 2022

Commentary

Long Read

Aviation machinists perform maintenance on a MQ-8B unmanned helicopter on the flight deck of the Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS 10), May 14, 2020. (U.S. Navy)

Reports

Can the U.S. Regain Battlefield Superiority against China? Applying New Metrics to Build an Adaptable and Resilient Military

Bryan Clark

Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology

Dan Patt

Senior Fellow, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology

Timothy A. Walton

Senior Fellow, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology

Bryan Clark, Dan Patt & Timothy A. Walton

Reports

3 Min Read

The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz steams ahead of the guided-missile cruiser USS Princeton during Malabar 2020 exercises in the north Arabian Sea, November 17, 2020. (US Navy)

Commentary

Is the US Military Actually Ready for a War?

Seth Cropsey

President, Yorktown Institute

Harry Halem

Research Assistant

Seth Cropsey & Harry Halem

Jan 11, 2022

Commentary

5 Min Read

U.S. servicemen walk through rain and strong winds with an AIM-120 missile on January 31, 2006. (U.S Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Eric T. Sheler)

Commentary

Why the Saudi Arabia Weapons Deal Was a Strategic Necessity

Rebeccah L. Heinrichs

Senior Fellow and Director, Keystone Defense Initiative

Rebeccah L. Heinrichs

Dec 28, 2021

Commentary

4 Min Read

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivers remarks on the Biden administration's Indo-Pacific strategy at the Universitas Indonesia in Jakarta, Indonesia on December 14, 2021. (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Commentary

America Is Back: Now It Must Adapt and Deliver