The new NATO secretary general has the opportunity and experience necessary to lead a global effort to cripple Russia’s war against Ukraine by tightening global export controls on semiconductors that are currently enabling Moscow’s arsenal.
Championed by a bi-partisan group of 40 lawmakers, the Senate resolution designates Nov. 17 as “National Warrior Call Day,” a major effort that draws attention to those service members and veterans perilously disconnected from family, friends and support systems.
The sophisticated attack this week in which Israel is suspected of detonating pagers carried by Hezbollah members could bring a serious escalation in the attrition war between the two sides that started following the Hamas terror strike on Oct. 7, 2023. One of the options Israel is weighing is conducting a large-scale war in Lebanon. But this would be a huge gamble and a grave mistake, for several reasons.
The damage to the U.S. semiconductor industry is compounded from a national security perspective because of the improved armaments China will now have to menace Taiwan and its other neighbors, such as the Philippines, in addition to the U.S.
Sending the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier at high speed to the Middle East has created an aircraft carrier gap in the Pacific. The carrier fleet is stretching to perform its global role.
The Navy’s more diverse ecosystem of maintenance has seen its shipboard, tender-based and local-homeport components decimated since the end of the Cold War. Bringing back a maintenance and repair system at multiple levels might ease the burden on shipyard-level maintenance and repair.
By renewing their support for the Merchant Marine Act of 1920, more commonly known as the Jones Act, Congress can bolster our economic and national security.
With the end of a cooperative framework, the Arctic is rapidly becoming the next contested area in great power competition, and the U.S. is in danger of being a day late and a dollar short.
The VA’s Office of Patient Advocacy is a huge and complex system that can be difficult for veterans to navigate. It is tough for staff to respond to each and every veteran. Hence the need for more advocates.
The D.C. region leads the nation in national security jobs anchored in math. But the region’s K-12 students must be better equipped if they are to participate. Area schools and educators must help them overcome serious math deficits.
