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The Trump administration is not requesting that Congress raise the budget caps at all, either for defense or non-defense. Instead, the administration is asking Congress to use a loophole in the law to allow for higher defense spending without breaching the budget caps: overseas contingency operations (OCO) funding.
The Fiscal Year 2020 budget that the Trump administration released Monday embroils the Department of Defense in many confrontations with the Congress. The DOD will be dragged into a series of political confrontations and may end up as collateral damage.
Expansion weakens the alliance rather than strengthening it. It’s time to stop NATO expansion.
For the millions of South Koreans, a peace declaration should be a great accomplishment and a relief. Unfortunately, it is not likely to be.
The winning candidate in 2020 will reveal himself or herself to us over the next 21 months through a basket of qualitative indicators focused on how effective each candidate is in individually appealing to likely voters in a fundamentally changed social environment.
Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan will almost certainly undermine any possibility of a peace s
If intelligence analysis is written but nobody reads it, does it exist? I offer a simple eight-step program for analysts to adopt to do their part in bridging the intelligence-policy divide.
Bad ideas. How much trouble do they cause in national security? How do they disrupt or hinder the protection and advancement of American interests? Listen to the War on the Rocks podcast featuring authors from the Defense360 “Bad Ideas in National Security” series.
The average American wants choice and personalization, not a bundled, take-it-or-leave-it offering. That has left the market wide open for new entrants willing to break with past business models and orthodoxies, from Netflix to Donald Trump.
America has a new counterterrorism policy: retrenchment.