Department of Defense (DoD)

A timeline that chronicles major events in the Trump administration’s campaign of lethal strikes against suspected drug traffickers in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific.

On the role of U.S. military leaders in addressing legal constraints and strategic questions.

Congress should build a durable private-public standing forum in the next National Defense Authorization Act.

Anthropic v. Department of War reveals why courts must distinguish genuine national security judgments from pretextual ones and how to do it.

The Pentagon's push to integrate AI into weapons systems exposes a critical gap: no one can agree on what "autonomous weapons" means.

The use of LLMs for foreign intelligence surveillance erodes the rules put in place to safeguard Americans' civil liberties.

The Pentagon’s new deals to deploy commercial LLMs on its classified networks provide it with a powerful surveillance capability that could be turned on Americans.

New data shows how mass firings, loyalist replacements, and pressure tactics are turning U.S. immigration courts into a deportation enforcement arm.

Federal law specifies that involuntary mobilization is to be used only to provide military forces for war or national emergencies.

Members of the Senate are taking steps to regulate and restrict how the Department of Defense develops and uses AI in its operations.

With risk-based personnel vetting practices, U.S. AI labs can keep recruiting the world’s best researchers while safeguarding national security.

To restore transparency and accountability, Congress should reform the statutory authorities to remove officers from promotion lists and delay promotions.