Iran’s inability to support Bashar al-Assad’s regime and prevent its collapse, coupled with recent significant blows to Hizballah and Israeli strikes within Iranian borders, underscores Tehran’s unprecedented regional weakness. With Russian support proving unreliable, the rapid Syrian downfall reminds Iranian leadership of the danger of their growing domestic estrangement. Now, Tehran faces a critical choice between dangerously advancing its military nuclear ambitions as the ultimate deterrent or seeking de-escalation at the risk of seeming vulnerable.
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In this special episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Rick Landgraf talks with Jane Vaynman and Tristan Volpe, co-authors of “Dual Use Deception: How Technology Shapes Cooperation in International Relations,” published in the journal International Organization. The study won IO’s 2023 Robert O. Keohane Award for best research article published by an untenured scholar. Image: U.S. Army Garrison – Fort Detrick
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Junior enlisted troops bring home more pay than most civilians with similar experience, according to a new report released by the Pentagon.
Specifically, the pay for troops with less than 10 years of experience is higher than the “90th percentile of earnings for civilians” with a high school diploma, according to the first volume of the 14th Quadrennial Review of Military Compensation released Wednesday. The review, commissioned by the Department of Defense, studies the total compensation — pay plus cash allowances — that military members receive in comparison to civilian peers.
During his last days as President Joe Biden’s top national security adviser, Jake Sullivan is advising members of President-Elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration on the lessons his team learned in their pursuits to expand the contemporary defense industrial base and modernize the production and procurement of U.S. military weapons and other warfare assets.
Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Eric Smith cautioned on Wednesday that ongoing efforts to relocate Marines from Okinawa to Guam will move those forces away from where they are most needed.
“Frankly, Guam puts us going the wrong way,” Smith told reporters at a Defense Writers Group Breakfast in Washington, D.C. “Guam puts us on the other side of the International Date Line, but it puts us a long way from the crisis theater, from the priority theater.”
About 19,000 Marines are currently stationed in Okinawa.
An Army doctor who sexually abused patients during fraudulent medical examinations was sentenced Wednesday to more than more than 13 years in prison.
An Army judge gave Army Maj. Michael Stockin the maximum amount of prison time — 13 years, 6 months — that a plea deal he made last week with military prosecutors allowed.
ATF is an initialism for alcohol, tobacco, and firearms. The agency’s actual name is the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. With its responsibilities in its name, many people may be surprised to learn that the BATFE, more commonly referred to as the ATF, is also the federal law enforcement agency with jurisdiction over fire investigations. So, how did fires get added to the jurisdiction of the ATF?
Prohibition agents destroying barrels of alcohol, c. 1921 (Public Domain)
The ATF can trace its roots back to the days of Prohibition.
In 2022, Kathleen J. McInnis, Benjamin Jensen, and Jaron Wharton wrote, “Why Dictators are Afraid of Girls: Rethinking Gender and National Security,” where they analyzed how gender can break or bolster authoritarian regimes. We asked Kathleen and Benjamin to revisit their article to see how the relationship between government and gender has evolved since then. Read more below: Image: Photo from Paval Hadzinski Catholic Belarus, CC BY-SA 4.
The Marines are gearing up to integrate more generative artificial intelligence tools into the force, but the service’s top officer doesn’t want to have to spend a lot of money to develop them.
The Corps, like the Defense Department writ large, is keen on tapping into emerging genAI capabilities for various military purposes.
Last month, Lt. Gen. Melvin “Jerry” Carter, the deputy commandant for information, issued new guidance on the technology, writing that these types of tools present “unique and exciting opportunities” for the Marines.
FORT MEADE, Md. — Following a new framework signed in September 2024, the Pentagon’s network defense command is looking to change how it fights to better protect Department of Defense networks from increasing adversary intrusions.
Gen. Timothy Haugh, commander of U.S. Cyber Command, signed the DOD Information Network (DODIN) command operation framework execution order last year, which oriented the battlespace and now aligns DODIN areas of operation to commanders and directors.