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The choreography in Ankara last week was impressive, even by Recep Tayyip Erdogan's standards. Cannons fired, mounted honor guards paraded, and jets flew overhead trailing red, white, and blue smoke ...

NATO’s European Test: Ukraine, Russia and the Future of the Alliance ...

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 ability to maneuver people, equipment, ...

Eric Olson retired from the United States Navy as an Admiral in 2011 after more than 38 years of military service. He served in special operations units throughout his career, was engaged in several ...

Winning tomorrow’s conflicts means countering the persistent networks, cognitive warfare, and gray-zone strategies already ...

Tim Willasey-Wilsey served for over 27 years in the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office and is now Visiting Professor of War Studies at King's College, London. His book “The Spy and the Devil” ...

Did you authorize a $2,400 transfer? Reply NO to stop it.” You reply, and seconds later a calm “fraud agent” calls, knows your name and the last four digits of your card, and walks you through ...

Recent discussion of artificial intelligence in intelligence analysis has consistently framed the technology as a means of accelerating an existing process. The intelligence cycle (collection, ...

June 2026 death of Sergei B. Ivanov - the man once thought the most likely successor to Vladimir Putin - as well as the Russian President’s age, his rumored health problems, and the discontent over ...

William Courtney is a former U.S. ambassador to Kazakhstan and Georgia. He is an adjunct senior fellow at RAND and professor of policy analysis at the RAND School of Public Policy.