DFNS.net Policy Edition
By Bryan Smith, Defense One The best thing Congress could do for a while is stop passing new legislation. …read more From:: Government Executive (Policy)
By Bryan Smith, Defense One The best thing Congress could do for a while is stop passing new legislation. …read more From:: Government Executive (Policy)
By Bellingcat Investigation Team The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) has spent more than five years trying to give the world a picture of the air war in Afghanistan. This picture is always a...
By Jack Norton It’s that time again. Coinciding with the biggest musical countdown of the year is the biggest countdown of a defence and strategy site’s most popular articles of 2019. This year saw...
By Katie Bo Williams, Defense One Defense chief Mark Esper ordered a review of “processes for tracking and reporting injuries” after criticism in the wake of the Iranian missile attack. …read more From:: Government...
By Katie Bo Williams, Defense One Defense chief Mark Esper ordered a review of “processes for tracking and reporting injuries” after criticism in the wake of the Iranian missile attack. …read more From:: Government...
By Katie Bo Williams, Defense One Defense chief Mark Esper ordered a review of “processes for tracking and reporting injuries” after criticism in the wake of the Iranian missile attack. …read more From:: Government...
By Boaz Dvir, The Conversation Sending specially trained operatives into hostile territories dates back to Colonial days. In the past decade, special operations forces have become central to America’s counterterrorism efforts. …read more From::...
By Brahma Chellaney ‘Great nations do not fight endless wars’, US President Donald Trump declared in his 2019 State of the Union speech. He had a point: military entanglements in the Middle East have...
By William Choong Speaking at the Shangri-La Dialogue in May 2019, Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong called on China and the United States to reach a strategic accommodation amid their festering dispute over...
By Russian Defense Policy Tula Suvorov Military School Cadets In NVO, historian Stanislav Ivanov asks how much “cadetization” of Russia’s youth is justified? Even a good thing like military education for the young, he...
By Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic An interrogator testified that even after prisoner Abu Zubaydah started cooperating, the waterboarding continued. …read more From:: Government Executive (Policy)
By Terence Wood Does foreign aid work? Are free markets the best path to better lives? Is globalisation good or bad? Two decades ago, these were big debates in development. The intervening 20 years...
By Klaus Schwab On 24 October, the world will mark the 75th birthday of the United Nations and the liberal international order. Most agree that this framework—comprising the UN, the International Monetary Fund, the...
By Wim Zwijnenburg Since the discovery of oil in what is now known as South Sudan, bloody conflicts have been waged over control of areas rich with this “black gold.” During Sudan’s second civil...
By Katie Bo Williams, Defense One The president’s dismissive statements about the brain trauma suffered by U.S. troops at Al Assad may reflect a considered attempt to de-escalate – or not. …read more From::...
By Bellingcat Investigation Team In its final report, the Fact Finding Mission (FFM) of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) stated that there are reasonable grounds to believe that on April...
By Ron Huisken US President Donald Trump’s hope that the Korea question—particularly the part about North Korea’s nuclear capabilities—could be resolved by the sheer force of personality has been confirmed as a fantasy. The...
By Su-Yin Lew Laws and regulations covering outer space are mired in geopolitical gridlock and are failing to keep pace with burgeoning commercial use of space and new technologies. Dependency on space is increasing...
By Michael Colborne Italian neo-fascist Franco Freda has published and promoted books by Nazis, written that “[we] only have accounts to settle with the Jewish or Judaized Europe,” was convicted of trying to resurrect...
By Sonya da Costa and Michael Rose Sonya da Costa is a young entrepreneur from Dili, Timor-Leste. After beginning her career as a barista at a popular café in Dili, in 2017 she applied...
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