Opinion
Tiltrotor will bring the Army off the bench in the Indo-Pacific
The author of this op-ed argues the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft gives the Army a quantum leap in capability necessary to win a war in the Pacific.
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America needs military lawyers willing to uphold its principles
The authors of this op-ed argue the U.S. military is only at its best when lethality works in concert with its longstanding compliance of wartime laws.
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DOGE shouldn’t have unfettered Pentagon access
if Musk’s involvement ends up exposing sensitive data to our adversaries, a few billion in government waste will be the least of our problems.
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The US must reform an arms sales process that invites dawdling
The Tiered Review process has evolved into a way for a single member of Congress to block a transfer for reasons disconnected from US defense policy.
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Spending, troops and Asia: three ideas for Europe to stabilize NATO
If Europe responds positively, it can place NATO on a new, healthy footing.
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What the Pentagon might learn from Ukraine about fielding new tech
The U.S. Defense Department might benefit from leveraging commercial technology more aggressively, argue RAND analysts Jon Schmid and Erik E. Mueller.
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Don’t pull the plug on US military installations
Renewable energy is a politically volatile topic, but U.S. military leaders should not categorically dismiss the benefits.
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Preventing China’s DeepSeek in Space
The government should ensure that U.S. tech firms eying national security contracts can keep American technology secrets from China and Russia.
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How autonomous tech can make combat engineering safer
In this op-ed, an Army captain argues the military investing in autonomous tech can increase the efficiency and safety of its combat engineering units.
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The military is a hammer, and not all problems are nails
Vocal lobbies in the Washington foreign policy scene are heavily invested in applying U.S. military power to problems that aren't military in nature.
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Trump 2.0 and the fracture of US cyber power
In this op-ed, a research analyst argues Trump's push to split America's "dual-hatted" cyber operations leadership would be a significant misstep.
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Ukraine is determined, but tired
"Left unsaid was that the West could risk resentment if it pressed Ukraine into a negotiation likely to fail," writes RAND analyst William Courtney.
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Make Putin an offer he can’t refuse
Since Ukraine controls part of Kursk, it is in a position to barter over the details, argue analysts Alexander Vershbow and Hans Binnendijk.
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No runways, no sorties: Chinese missiles threaten US airpower plans
American warplanes could be kept from joining the fray of a conflict with China for days or weeks, analysts have concluded.
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The next defense reform must fully bring the US tech sector on board
"We are wasting the talents of America’s world-class tech sector," argue issue experts Ellen Lord and Tyler Sweatt.
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Open development standards are key to keeping the US military on top
Adopting Modular Open System Architecture will help the U.S. military field new technology faster and mass-produce legacy weapons, Navy officials argue.
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Ukraine blinds Russian target seekers with drone-on-drone combat
Ukrainian forces have found success in downing Russian spy drones with cheap, first-person-view drones, analyst Federico Borsari finds.
