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It is becoming clearer that respected views of the national-security threats facing the U.S. are diverging:

Twenty-first century trends like the growth of technology represent new opportunities, but they also represent more

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And why Ecuador’s a bad place to go if you are one

Shortly before sunrise, the veterans received their instructions and marched into the darkness. Each man had a job. Some wore headlamps as they planted hundreds of decoys at precise intervals across the wet, patchy field near …

When the pilot announced his plane’s descent toward Moscow on Sunday, whistle-blower Edward Snowden, one of the most wanted men in the U.S., would have had reason to be both nervous and relieved.

There are not many countries …

Those of us who involved in the national-security realm in this town for awhile recall reading David C.Morrison’s stories in the National Journal (think of it as a National Geographic that explores the back halls of …

Last month when I shared my own experience with failed military leadership, I implored some deeper thinking. When Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel orders a comprehensive inspection of military offices worldwide to “root out” …

How much could be saved by trimming the U.S. nuclear triad…and at what cost to U.S. security?

Are defense-contractor executives paid too much?

It’s not like they work for Apple or Ford, where shareholders foot the bill, and – if they fail to produce the goods — they’ll feel that same foot kicking them overboard.

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President Obama chose to announce a new United States nuclear strategy not to the American people, not even to members of Congress, but to German citizens. Presumably, he thought a speech at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate, where …