The Armed Forces of the Future
The future of defense strategy requires restructuring forces for modern threats, focusing deployments on critical regions, accelerating tech integration, reforming procurement and budgets, revitalizing the industrial base, and investing in top talent.
All Rise for Trade Court
All Rise for Trade Court
The Court of International Trade’s ruling on Donald Trump’s tariffs is the most consequential potential setback for the president’s trade agenda to date.
Back From the Brink. Where Next?
The United States and China narrowly avoided a trade war by agreeing to a ninety-day pause on steep tariffs. The truce is not a bona fide trade deal, but the stage is now set for serious negotiations on a potentially broader and longer-term agreement.
The (Somewhat) Mysterious Surge in China’s Current Account Surplus
China’s trade surplus is rising. China’s reported current account surplus is rising even faster.
When Politics Replaces Science, People Suffer
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s decision to remove COVID-19 vaccines from the CDC’s immunization schedule for healthy pregnant women and children is profoundly alarming, argues epidemiologist
President Trump’s Gulf Trip Is Heavy on Theatrics, Light on Policy
President Trump’s Middle East trip was a wasted opportunity to secure major progress on a diplomatic solution to Iran’s nuclear program and resolving the war in Gaza
Attitudes Toward the Police Five Years After George Floyd’s Death
Lost in much of the news coverage of the 5th anniversary of George Floyd’s death were reports on how Americans, especially black Americans, view their local police now
The US Must War-Game an Israel-Turkey conflict
after an Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear sites, even if the Pentagon had not been involved? A recent Middle East Forum war game, for example, suggested the possibility that the Iranian regime could
How to make time work against Putin in Ukraine
Trump should lead a combined effort to make Putin see that the longer the war goes on, the more Russia will suffer.