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| Jun 3, 2026 | I witnessed our Ebola response in 2014. We are now seeing the costs of US aid withdrawal. (Opinion) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Elizabeth Shackelford
In September 2014, I was working as a watch officer in the U.S. State Department’s Operations Center, the 24/7 nerve center that monitors world events and responds to globa... |
| May 13, 2026 | Excellence in military medicine: ‘Your work saves lives and personifies readiness’ | Military medical leaders, professionals, and civilians who advance warfighter health were recognized at the Henry M. Jackson Foundation’s Heroes of Military Medicine Awards for “laying the next foundation stones, and reinforcing the very gr... |
| Mar 10, 2026 | Iran war: Hegseth says Tuesday ‘will be our most intense day of strikes’ | Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said, “Today will be our most intense day of strikes inside Iran.”
“Iran stands alone, and they are badly losing on Day 10 of Operation Epic Fury,” Hegseth said at a news conference at the Pentagon.
Hegseth’s ... |
| Feb 24, 2026 | Trump denies top US officer warned of Iran strike risks | WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Monday (Feb 23) denied reports that the top US military officer had flagged the risks of a major operation against Iran, saying Washington would "easily" beat Tehran in any war.
US media repor... |
| Jan 6, 2026 | Venezuela's Seismic Shift: Maduro Ousted, US Claims Interim Control and Oil Reserves | US forces captured Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, sending him to New York for drug charges. President Trump declared the US would temporarily govern Venezuela, aiming to stabilize the nation and utilize its vast oil wealth. Millions of V... |
| Jan 2, 2026 | US plans to ‘run’ Venezuela and tap its oil reserves, Trump says, after operation to oust Maduro | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By REGINA GARCIA CANO, KONSTANTIN TOROPIN and ERIC TUCKER
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Hours after an audacious military operation that plucked leader Nicolás Maduro from power and removed him from th... |
| Dec 18, 2025 | SOUTHCOM Command Shift Amid Deadly Anti-Drug Strike Scrutiny | US Southern Command leadership changed abruptly. Admiral Alvin Holsey retired early. This shift occurred as the Trump administration’s lethal drug boat strikes face intense congressional scrutiny. Operations in the Caribbean and Eastern Pac... |
| Dec 12, 2025 | Leadership of US command in Latin America changes hands amid criticism of boat strikes | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By JOSHUA GOODMAN
DORAL, Fla. (AP) — A U.S. Navy admiral who oversees military operations in Latin America handed off command responsibilities Friday as scrutiny increases over the Trump administra... |
| Jul 2, 2025 | Ask Sage partners with DoD and U.S. Army to provide access to generative AI solutions | Ask Sage partners with DoD and U.S. Army to provide access to generative AI solutions
Ask Sage, Inc., a leading generative AI platform for government and commercial sectors, announced a first-year, $10 million strategic partnership with the... |
| Jun 21, 2025 | White House photos show rare look inside the Situation Room as Trump authorizes strikes in Iran | Trump is always in sharp focus whenever he is pictured, even as other officials in the foreground — like Hegseth or Vance — are softly blurred. In this image provided by the White House, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, in foreground, and Se... |
| Apr 19, 2025 | A Tale of Two Stories: The Pentagon's Purge and the Battleship Missouri's Legacy | In the corridors of power, change is a constant. The Pentagon is no exception. Recently, it witnessed a significant upheaval. A former spokesman, Ullyot, found himself in the eye of a storm. His resignation came amid a backdrop of controver... |
| Apr 19, 2025 | Navigating the Waters of Change: The Pentagon's Shift and the Rise of Naval Autonomy | The Pentagon is a ship navigating turbulent waters. Recent changes in leadership and strategy signal a significant shift in how the U.S. military communicates and operates. As the winds of political change blow, the Navy is also charting a ... |
| Apr 17, 2025 | Former Pentagon spokesman tied to online DEI purge was asked to resign, official says | Under Hegseth, the communications office has made significant changes to how it works with Pentagon reporters, including removing many news outlets from their longtime workspaces and not yet holding weekly briefings.
Ullyot was transferred ... |
| Jan 24, 2025 | Editorials | Editorial: Trump’s Jan. 6 pardons have dangerous implications for law and order | Sen. Susan Collins was one of a small number of Republican lawmakers critical of Trump’s broad pardons to those who engaged in violence on Jan. 6, 2021.
“While I believe some Americans were caught up in the crowd on Jan. 6 and may well dese... |
| Aug 26, 2024 | National Politics | Trump rebukes Harris and Biden on anniversary of Afghanistan bombing that killed 13 service members | Since Biden ended his reelection bid, Trump has been zeroing in on Harris, now the Democratic presidential nominee, and her roles in foreign policy decisions. He has specifically highlighted the vice president’s statements that she was the ... |
| Apr 16, 2024 | Pentagon chief speaks with Chinese counterpart for first time since 2022 | ASSOCIATED PRESS
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin testifies before the Senate Committee on Armed Services during a hearing in Washington on April 9.
WASHINGTON >> Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke with China’s national defense min... |
| Feb 18, 2024 | China’s Military Buildup: the Biggest Since 1945? | The Australian government asserts that China’s military buildup is the largest of any country in post-war history. Their threat perception is overblown.
The Australian government claims that China has made the biggest military buildup of an... |
| Apr 14, 2023 | Why Divergent Civil Society and Military Approaches Matter for CHMR-AP Implementation | In a previous Lawfare article, I explained that a balanced approach is vitally important as the Department of Defense moves forward with implementing the recently published Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response Action Plan (CHMR-AP). The sc... |
| Apr 12, 2023 | The Dangerous Cycle of Pentagon Sexual Assault and Harassment ‘Lowest Level’ Policy | On March 10, the Department of Defense issued its newest report on the prevalence of sexual assault and sexual harassment at the nation’s military academies. The report revealed that perpetration of sexual assault and harassment are at an a... |
| Feb 19, 2023 | Indispensable but Insufficient: The Role and Limits of Special Operations in Strategic Competition | Editor’s Note: After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, special operations forces (SOF) were often the point of the counterterrorism spear. As the United States shifts away from counterterrorism and focuses on the threats that Russia and China pos... |
| Nov 22, 2022 | The Unholy Trinity of Corruption, Low Morale, and Military Failure | The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the ongoing war provide even more evidence of an army steadily losing ground because of a toxic combination of abysmal morale and corruption throughout the ranks. The tight coupling of corruption, low mor... |
| Nov 17, 2022 | Top US general says Russia ignored his call after Poland missile strike — an ominous glimpse at how a future crisis could play out | Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley at a press conference at the Pentagon in Washington, DC, on November 16, 2022. MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images
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Gen. Mark Milley said he tried calling his Russian counterp... |
| Oct 30, 2022 | How Should the U.S. Military Share Secrets? | Editor’s Note: Access to U.S. intelligence is high on the list of what allies want and need. Department of Defense procedures allow for intelligence sharing, but as RAND’s Andrew Radin argues, the procedures are complex, confusing, and ofte... |
| Oct 25, 2022 | Commitment to Balance Is Vitally Important for Successful Implementation of CHMR-AP | Publication of the Department of Defense Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response-Action Plan (CHMR-AP) at the end of August has prompted an appreciable degree of debate regarding how the plan will be implemented in practice and how best to op... |
| Sep 12, 2022 | Next Generation Leadership for Special Operations Forces | Special operations forces (SOF) are at an inflection point. Operationally, they are rebalancing from an overwhelming focus on countering terrorist groups to a mix of that mission and others designed to support the military’s new emphasis on... |
| Aug 22, 2022 | Airstrikes, Civilian Casualties, and the Role of JAGs in the Targeting Process | The commander is pacing the floor of the operations center. Her ops team has been tracking a group of terrorists for several days, but she has just lost the video feed from a small drone inside the building where they were meeting. The last... |
| Jul 24, 2022 | The United States Learned From Iraq and Afghanistan. Russia Didn’t. | Editor’s Note: As the United States orients its strategy around great power competition, questions have arisen as to whether the U.S. military is up to the task. In particular, as Raphael Cohen and Gian Gentile of the RAND Corporation point... |
| Jun 7, 2022 | Taking the Elf Off the Shelf: Why the U.S. Should Consider a Civilian Cyber Defense | It was the morning of Sept. 12, 2001, and from the back seat of a Cessna, Lt. Col. Andrew Feldman was taking photos with his 35-mm Nikon fitted with Zeiss lenses. As armed U.S. Air Force (USAF) F-15 Eagles circled above them like angry bees... |
| Mar 16, 2022 | Soldiers, Statesmen and Cyber Crises: Cyberspace and Civil-Military Relations | The internet, at the core of cyberspace, was designed to be non-hierarchical, based on substantial trust, with no privileged role for governments and no sovereignty or borders. Engineered into the very physics of the domain, such characteri... |
| Mar 14, 2022 | Four Climate Security Insights From the COVID-19 Pandemic Response | What can the U.S. and international coronavirus pandemic response teach us about the climate crisis? At their core, pandemics and climate change are complex, global collective action problems. They are also increasingly conceptualized as no... |
| Mar 5, 2022 | What Does the 2022 NDS Fact Sheet Imply for the Forthcoming Cyber Strategy? | The Defense Department’s two-page fact sheet summarizing the 2022 National Defense Strategy (NDS) provides notable insights from a cyberspace strategy perspective. Identifying campaigning as one way to advance Department of Defense goals is... |
| Mar 4, 2022 | Ukrainian and Russian Will to Fight: An Early-War Assessment | Editor’s Note: Russia has a large army and clear superiority in firepower, but is experiencing many setbacks in its invasion of Ukraine. Russia's experience is far from unusual: Military success depends on much more than just material facto... |
| Jan 22, 2022 | Contextualizing Last Week’s Malicious Cyber Activities Against Ukrainian Government Websites and Systems | As reported in the New York Times on Jan. 14, “[h]ackers brought down dozens of Ukrainian government websites,” posting a message on dark screens that read: “Be afraid and expect the worst.” To augment its intimidating effect, the message t... |
| Nov 21, 2021 | Finding the Appropriate Balance of Risk in Over-the-Horizon Strikes | Editor’s Note: The killing of 10 civilians, including seven children, in a drone strike intended to target Islamic State in Khorasan province operatives was a depressing punctuation to the messy U.S. exit from Afghanistan. Although most Ame... |
| Jul 21, 2021 | What dodging North Korean missiles taught me about shooting down Kim Jong Un’s growing arsenal | A photo of what North Korea’s government said was the August 29, 2017, test launch of a Hwasong-12 intermediate-range ballistic missile. Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP
A North Korean missile launch in August 2017 sent ... |
| May 18, 2021 | Five Ways To Be A Successful Female Entrepreneur | According to World Economic Forum's (WEF) latest Global Gender Gap Report, a systemic lack of access to capital, credit, land, or financial products prevent women from starting a company. This only adds to another perpetual factor impeding ... |
| May 12, 2021 | Cyberspace Is Neither Just an Intelligence Contest, nor a Domain of Military Conflict; SolarWinds Shows Us Why It’s Both | Operations in cyberspace—at least those perpetrated by nation-state actors and their proxies—reflect the geopolitical calculations of the actors who carry them out. Strategic interactions between rivals in cyberspace have been argued by som... |
| Apr 22, 2021 | Current International Law Is Not an Adequate Regime for Cyberspace | States increasingly agree that international law, specifically the U.N. Charter and rules of customary international law (CIL) derived from the charter’s principles, applies to cyberspace. Yet both are a poor fit for cyber activities. The c... |
| Jan 14, 2021 | SolarWinds Is Bad, but Retreat From Defend Forward Would Be Worse | The SolarWinds breach has kicked up a lot of dust. It’s thick, obscuring and deeply concerning. It’s also a long way from settling. But that hasn’t slowed the quick and steady drumbeat of postmortems declaring the shortcomings or outright f... |
| Nov 24, 2020 | Space Cybersecurity in the Age of Defending Forward | On Sept. 4, the Trump administration released a policy directive detailing the United States’s cybersecurity principles for “space systems.” Emphasizing the importance of space systems for communication, science, economic prosperity, and na... |
| Jul 20, 2020 | Legal Considerations Raised by the U.S. Cyberspace Solarium Commission Report | Editor's note: This article is part of a series of articles by analysts involved in the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, among others, highlighting and commenting upon aspects of the commission's findings and conclusion.
To cope with the cor... |
| Jun 25, 2020 | The U.S. Should Communicate in the Jus ad Bellum Lexicon to Strengthen Its Deterrence Posturing | Editor’s Note: In a previous post related to this topic, the authors argue the U.S.’s reliance on the Rules of Engagement has failed to provide strong legal bases for its threats to use force in self-defense.
Deterrence has always been a ce... |
| May 12, 2020 | Cyber Command Needs New Acquisition Authorities | In fiscal 2016, Congress granted limited acquisition authorities to U.S. Cyber Command, which sunset in 2021. Given the dynamic nature of the cyberspace environment, the rapidly changing pace of technological development, and the speed at w... |
| Mar 27, 2020 | Doctrinal Confusion and Cultural Dysfunction in the Pentagon Over Information and Cyber Operations | In a Lawfare post earlier this year, I questioned the wisdom of referring to cyber operations as psychological operations. These campaigns are the bread and butter of U.S. Cyber Command’s operational activities. My interest in this question... |
| Mar 12, 2020 | Operationalizing Defend Forward: How the Concept Works to Change Adversary Behavior | Editor's note: This article is part of a series of short articles by analysts involved in the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, among others, highlighting and commenting upon aspects of the commission's findings and conclusion.
Defend forward... |
| Mar 11, 2020 | Defending Forward by Defending Norms | Editor's note: This article is part of a series of short articles by analysts involved in the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, among others, highlighting and commenting upon aspects of the commission's findings and conclusion.
On Feb. 20, U.... |
| Feb 6, 2020 | Persistent Engagement and Cost Imposition: Distinguishing Between Cause and Effect | The term “cost imposition” is deeply ingrained in U.S. nuclear and conventional strategic theory and in policy discussions of strategy. As we discuss it here, the notion refers to efforts to achieve security that influence the actions adver... |
| Dec 18, 2019 | Military Cyber Operations: The New NDAA Tailors the 48-Hour Notification Requirement | The soon-to-be-enacted National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 (NDAA fiscal 2020) includes a provision that will fine-tune the range of military cyber operations subject to the 48-hour notification requirement associated wit... |
| May 28, 2019 | Cyber Command’s Strategy Risks Friction With Allies | Much has been written about the fundamental changes in U.S. cyber strategy. U.S. Cyber Command’s vision of “persistent engagement” and the Department of Defense’s new strategy of “defend forward” have, in particular, led to numerous critica... |
| May 23, 2019 | Associate Deputy Attorney General Sujit Raman Remarks at the ABA Rule of Law Initiative Annual Issues Conference | On Tuesday, Associate Deputy Attorney General Sujit Raman delivered the following remarks to the ABA Rule of Law Initiative annual conference in a speech entitled “The Rule of Law in the Age of Great Power Competition in Cyberspace.”
It is ... |
| May 10, 2019 | Persistent Engagement: Foundation, Evolution and Evaluation of a Strategy | In 2018, U.S. Cyber Command was elevated to a unified combatant command, one of only four of these functional commands in the U.S. military. To harken the institution’s independence, Cyber Command released a strategic vision announcing a ne... |
| Jan 22, 2019 | The Constitutional Quandary Already at the Border | In recent weeks, the prospect that President Trump might declare a national emergency in order to fund the construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border has triggered new concerns regarding his administration’s commitment to the rule ... |
| Oct 19, 2018 | A Chinese Perspective on the Pentagon’s Cyber Strategy: From ‘Active Cyber Defense’ to ‘Defending Forward’ | The 2018 Department of Defense Cyber Strategy is the third report of its kind: The document, a summary of which was issued on Sept. 18, follows the Department of Defense Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace in July 2011 and the April 2015 D... |
| Aug 23, 2018 | Japan’s Evolving Position on the Use of Force in Collective Self-Defense | The Japanese Constitution was long understood as prohibiting the exercise of international law’s right of collective self-defense under all circumstances. Until just a few years ago, the government’s view had been that the Constitution’s wa... |
| Aug 5, 2018 | Trade War Battles: Congress Reconsiders Its Role | After many months of the executive branch taking action against U.S. trading partners, Congress is starting to push back. A bipartisan group of senators introduced a draft bill Wednesday to reform Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1... |
| Aug 22, 2017 | What if President Trump Orders Secretary of Defense Mattis to Do Something Deeply Unwise? | Plausible hypotheticals sparked by recent events raise the question whether the Secretary of Defense or someone else high up in the chain of command must obey a presidential order he or she deems deeply unwise. May the Secretary of Defense ... |
| Aug 18, 2017 | Water Wars: a “Suspicious” Flotilla that May “Not Mean Anything” | Some Philippine Leaders Herald a New Era of Cooperation with China, while Others Warn of a Buildup of Chinese Naval and Civilian Vessels near Philippine territory
Satellite photograph showing Chinese ships near Thitu (Pag-asa) Island (Photo... |
| Jul 15, 2015 | There’s a Sweeping Changeover Happening Among the US Military's Top Brass | There's a sweeping transition happening at the highest level of American military leadership, and two of the new kids on the block - the nominees for chairman and vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff -- are already shaking things up.
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| Jul 2, 2015 | Pentagon Releases New National Military Strategy | Yesterday, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey unveiled the the Pentagon's new 2015 National Military Strategy. Revising the 2011 National Military Strategy, General Dempsey indicated that the security landscape the... |
| Jul 2, 2015 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | ISIS has successfully incorporated itself into a “large network of looters” plundering and destroying archaeological sites for profit as well as propaganda value, the New York Times writes. Be sure to check out the Times’ detailed map of wo... |
| Jul 20, 2012 | New Army Manual on Preventing Harm to Civilians | Over at Forbes.com, the estimable Gregory McNeal has this article about a new Army manual on preventing harm to civilians. The just-released manual, entitled "Civilian Casualty Mitigation," was the subject of this article last yea... |
| New Ideas for Over-the-Horizon Counterterrorism in Afghanistan | Editor’s Note: Managing the terrorism threat in the Taliban’s Afghanistan is both difficult and necessary. The U.S. withdrawal and the Taliban’s return to power, however, have made it far harder for the United States to monitor and strike t... |
