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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

As numbers of migrants fall and restrictions on immigration are implemented, are high public concerns about immigration also likely to come down, reducing pressure on the government? Not necessarily, ...

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 ...

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.

· 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 ...

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 ...

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

Continental passengers at Houston airport can now board planes by showing their cell phones or PDAs to security checkers; checkers scan rectangular bars on the cell phones’ or PDAs’ screens, which ...

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