In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, a small number of conventional and special operations forces (SOF) assets had the vital task of ridding Afghanistan of Taliban forces, both from the…
Bring Irregular Warfare to the Conventional Forces In response to our peer and near-peer adversaries deploying irregular tactics against the U.S., many policymakers have sought to increase conventional forces’ training…
A destabilizing mix of crises is proliferating across Africa, largely as a result of humanitarian disasters fueled by internal conflict, and the rising presence of terror groups that thrive amidst…
The U.S. and Israeli conflict with Iran may be departing from the cooling phase it entered in passing weeks, when the Trump administration ended its aggressive military bombing campaign and…
On May 1, the Department of War announced that it had entered into agreements with SpaceX, OpenAI, Amazon Web Services, Google, Oracle, NVIDIA, Reflection, and Microsoft to supply their projects…
After President Donald Trump signed an executive order on April 18 that will expedite medical research into the effectiveness of psychedelic treatments for use in mental health care, there are…
In addition to deploying military instructors across Africa, Russia’s grey zone operations on the continent include a well-funded effort to seed countries with anti-Western rhetoric and to promote pro-Russian narratives. …
Much has been written about the strategic gap between the United States and China, with many commentators warning that the U.S. is dangerously underprepared for direct confrontation amid China’s growing…
Dating back to 2006, Congress has created one permanent and two temporary Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) programs to afford legal permanent resident status to Afghan and Iraqi nationals who served…
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that will ease access to research into psychedelic drugs, which the administration notes may have significant benefits for veterans when it comes…