The New Nuclear Gap
America has fallen behind in a great-power arms race.
Magazine: National Security & Defense
Woke Warriors
How DEI threatens the DOD.
Biden’s All-Hat National Defense
JFK meets Jimmy Carter.
The Defense Budget We Need
How to correct decades of strategically unserious underspending.
The New Cold War
Subduing Russia — and China — may be harder this time.
Defusing Ukraine
Either NATO membership or neutrality would be far better than war.
The Well-Armed Troll
On Vladimir Putin.
Last Days in Helmand
A review of The Last Platoon: A Novel of the Afghanistan War, by Bing West.
Preserving the Warrior Ethos
It is corroded, and the necessary restorative work belongs to us all.
AUKUS Shuffles the Blocs
The new geopolitics.