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The White House's future BDA briefings on the Iran strikes will likely project certainty where analysis still urges caution.

The success of AUKUS is important for validating and refining a kind of joint defense model that the United States can use to forge more productive partnerships.

How the growing politicization of the U.S. intelligence community undermines the integrity of decision-making on Iran and national security more broadly.

Why did Israel, and then the United States, decide to attack Iran now, even as U.S.-Iranian negotiations sputtered along?

"An alarming escalation of the president's efforts to use the military as a domestic police force. Based on currently available information, it appears to be illegal, as well"

"Congress has been far more clear than is widely believed about what its view is..."

"The state of California, however, has not yet raised this point in the ongoing litigation. That is a missed opportunity ...."

Congress should pass legislation to give U.S. service members the tools and the authority to repair their own equipment.

If the Trump administration wants to end wasteful Pentagon spending, it should reform the many faltering weapons programs and review its contractor ecosystem.

NSPM-4 creates a military area that is twice the size of Washington, D.C. and expands the military’s role in stopping cross-border migration.

A range of federal laws, including the Espionage Act and laws against the destruction of government records, could apply in this case.