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Brahma Chellaney, The Strategist (ASPI)
With great-power rivalries again at the centre of international relations, democratic governments have been relying on secret statecraft to shape or…

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Phillip Keuhlen, RealClearDefense
There is an old saw in leadership circles, “You get what you inspect.

In this episode, TNSR Production Editor Kerry Anderson sits down with Joseph Stieb to discuss his article from Volume 6, Issue 3 of TNSR: “Why Did the United States Invade Iraq? The Debate at 20 Years.” Image: Helene C. Stikkel, Department of Defense
The post The Debate Over Why the United States Invaded Iraq in 2003 appeared first on War on the Rocks.

U.S. maritime policy is a grievous failure. Whether evaluated in terms of effectively meeting national security requirements or bolstering the country’s economy, America can point to few successes. Inefficient commercial shipbuilding barely registers as a rounding error in global output while costly U.S.-flagged shipping is typically only employed when other options are exhausted. A shocking lack of competitiveness has led to both considerable economic harm and the withering of these maritime industries into shells of their former selves.

When Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro praised his boss, President Joe Biden, and threw shade at former President Donald Trump before an audience in London and then again to a British television network last year, he broke a federal law, an investigation found.  Del Toro’s comments violated the Hatch Act, a federal law that prevents U.S. government employees from engaging in political activity while on duty, by making comments in January that supported President Joe Biden and criticized former President Donald Trump in January, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel has determined.

Thirteen former Coast Guard Academy cadets allege that they were sexually assaulted during their time at the Connecticut school and claim that when they came forward, they were denied, ignored and told that too much time had passed. Now, they are pursuing damages against the Coast Guard and Department of Homeland Security.
The allegations were detailed in administrative complaints filed against the Coast Guard and DHS ahead of a formal Federal Tort Claims Act filling, a mechanism for bringing legal claims against the government for negligence or wrongful acts by federal employees.

The Defense Department and National Nuclear Security Administration recently inaugurated a new supercomputer in California, via a joint pursuit envisioned to expand U.S. computing capacity and simultaneously generate additional chemical and biological defense capabilities.
Hosted at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the system is funded by DOD’s Chemical and Biological Defense Program, and officials plan to soon open it up for use by the military, other federal agencies, allied and partner governments, and key collaborators in academic and industry.

In 2020, Sara Moller wrote “It Will Take More than a Biden Victory to Solve NATO’s Strategic Malaise” where she argued that the Biden administration needed to pursue bold reform to revitalize NATO. In the wake of NATO’s recent 75th anniversary summit, we invited Sara back to reflect on the relationship between the United States and NATO. Read more below. Image: Gage Skidmore In your 2020 article “It Will Take More than a Biden Victory to Solve NATO’s Strategic Malaise” you argued that, should then-candidate Joe Biden win the U.S.

A U.S. sailor who was in Venezuela without authorization or knowledge of his chain of command was detained by authorities there in recent days, defense officials said. The sailor is the second U.S. service member in five months to be taken into custody during unauthorized travel to a less-than-friendly nation.
A U.S. soldier snuck into Russia in April to meet his girlfriend and was arrested. He remains in Russian custody.
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