Trump’s New National Security Strategy Goes Full “America First” (Rishi Iyengar and Christina Lu, Foreign Policy) The long-anticipated plan aims to selectively impose the U.S. president’s worldview ...

The New German War Machine (Isaac Stanley-Becker, The Atlantic) After World War II, Germany embraced pacifism as a form of atonement. Now the country is arming itself again. China’s Turn to National ...

“Signalgate” Report Contradicts Hegseth’s Claim of “Total Exoneration” (Dan Lamothe, Washington Post) The defense secretary’s actions “created a risk to operational security,” according to an ...

Israel Is Wondering if America Is Still on Its Side (Anchal Vohra, Foreign Policy) Shifts in U.S. policy and public support have Israelis searching for answers.

The Subsea Sputnik Moment (Kevin Frazier, Lawfare) China’s XLUUV exposes decades of policy negligence, demanding Congress reject bureaucratic inertia and secure the undersea cable system.

Hegseth Conscripts the Pentagon for Trump’s “Retribution Campaign” (Noah Robertson, Tara Copp and Sarah Ellison, Washington Post) In threatening to deploy the military justice system against Democrats ...

What China Will Dominate Next ( Economist) The country’s high-speed innovation holds lessons for the world.

· The Real AI Threat Is Algorithms That “Enrage to Engage” · Neo-Nazi’s Online Stunts Expose the Dangers Lurking for Kids on Roulette-Style Video Chats ...

Drug Arrests and Gun Seizures Fell as Homeland Security Pursued Immigration (Hamed Aleaziz, Nicholas Nehamas, Michael H. Keller, and Alexandra Berzon, New York Times) Internal documents reveal the ...

The Inevitable Logic of a Japanese Nuclear Weapon (Bilahari Kausikan, Foreign Policy) Rapid geopolitical change requires an urgent debate in Japan.

Could “A House of Dynamite” Spark a Public Rethink of Nuclear Risk? (Blake Narendra, Just Security) There’s no shortage of opportunities to reduce the chances that a war game –or the plot of “Dynamite ...

Instead of further shrinking and dismantling FEMA, the FEMA Review Council wants to make it more independent. A panel appointed by President Donald Trump to review whether to eliminate the Federal ...