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Signup to receive the Early Edition in your inbox here. A curated guide to major news and developments over the weekend. Here’s today’s news: IRAN WAR...
The world’s counterterrorism chiefs are meeting in New York this week. We brought a list of demands and not much else. A plot hatched in...
Five intelligence services rarely speak with one voice. When they warn the window of vulnerability has narrowed to months, the real question is whether the...
“We [the Joint Chiefs of Staff] often times in the national security decision-making process or White House meetings — outside of the Pentagon process —...
Military power is meaningless if it cannot move. Every American war plan, from deterring aggression in Europe to prevailing in the Indo-Pacific, depends on our...
Emergency Management Once Removed by Jim Mullen Note to readers: For more than a decade I’ve used this platform provided by the Center of Excellence...
THE BLUF: Working with partners is a key intelligence tool. While the US has one of the best if not the best intelligence organizations in...
The Epidemic of Patriotism How war, intelligence, technology, and state competence are building a new nationalism in the Gulf. There is an old idea in...
Sometimes the only thing more frightening than Afghanistan’s problems is the Taliban’s solutions and the recently signed Russia-Taliban military-technical agreement may be the most alarming...
“The reasons why DoD (the Defense Department) accepts flawed business cases are both structural and cultural in nature. Poor acquisition decisions are compounded by a...




