Although the start of the new decade will be remembered for the COVID-19 pandemic, another important yet overlooked story from the first months of 2020 was the high-intensity warfare between…
Since Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar initiated his effort to take Libya’s capital, Tripoli, by force on April 4, 2019, Libya has remained in a state of full-on civil war.
This article is current as of April 14, 2020. A few weeks ago, the acting Secretary of the Navy (A-SecNav) fired the commander of the USS Theodore Roosevelt, Captain Brett…
When Good Friday fell on April 10 this year, it was exactly twenty-two years to the day after Northern Ireland’s Good Friday Agreement was signed. That watershed deal…
A photo that surfaced from January’s Berlin Conference on Libya shows an intense discussion between prominent heads of state—among them Angela Merkel, Emmanuel…
On February 28, 2020, Dr. Ben Buchanan, a Senior Faculty Fellow at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology, discussed challenges states face in navigating cyberwarfare as highlighted…
Introduction The US military maintains almost $1.2 trillion worth of installations worldwide, allowing the United States to sustain critical capabilities and respond to…
Russia has historically maintained a strong presence in Eastern European weapons markets. During the Soviet era, Moscow not only supplied arms to its allies in the Warsaw Pact but also…
The conflict in Ukraine has received renewed attention in Washington D.C., and it is worth considering the relevance of this conflict to US national security interests. The open conflict in…
With a few exceptions, armed civil wars are no longer commonplace in Africa, but anti-government protests are. Instead of armed rebels, unarmed civilians are challenging regimes across Africa to reconsider…
