Rebecca Lissner is a senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. She most recently served as deputy assistant to the president and principal deputy national security ...

The latest U.S. defense policy signals Congress expects deeper cooperation with allies across the Indo-Pacific to counter an ...

Distinguished Fellow Anka Lee argues that while the National Security Strategy includes robust language on China, the Trump Administration still needs a rallying cry to counter Beijing’s broader ...

Distinguished Fellow Ken Westbrook argues that the National Security Strategy could have done more to recognize cyber-enabled financial crime as a first-order national security crisis.

The situation in Venezuela has not changed. The Maduro administration is still in charge with the new president, Delcy ...

Rejecting reports of a split with the brass, the Department of War says the National Defense Strategy was "seamlessly coordinated" with senior civilian and uniform leaders — and that "any narrative to ...

U.S. government documents are a dime a dozen. The Pentagon, for example, puts out an annual report on China’s military power and capabilities. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence ...

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s commendable speech this week to hundreds of generals and admirals signaled a renewed commitment to establishing a merit-based culture in the military. This includes ...

When does permissible strategic competition become illegitimate coercion, and when does state power begin to resemble organised crime? What is the Trump administration’s logic in pardoning former ...