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Two F-35B combat aircraft from the United States Marine Corp depart after re-fueling from an RAF Voyager aircraft over the North Sea on October 08, 2020 in flight, above Scotland.

Military vehicles carrying DF-17 missiles participate in a military parade at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on October 1, 2019. (GREG BAKER/AFP via Getty Images)

Commentary

Chinese Hypersonics?

Seth Cropsey

President, Yorktown Institute

Seth Cropsey

Oct 27, 2021

Commentary

6 Min Read

Libyan protesters gather outside the offices of Muslim Brotherhood-backed Party of Justice and Construction, in the Libyan capital Tripoli on July 27, 2013 (MAHMUD TURKIA/AFP via Getty Images)

Commentary

Libya’s Islamists: A Fragmented Landscape

Alison Pargeter

Senior Visiting Associate, Institute for Middle Eastern Studies, King’s College London

Alison Pargeter

Oct 27, 2021

Commentary

Long Read

December 11, 2019 Nigerian refugee women at the growing Awaridi refugee settlement now home to 9,000 plus mostly northern Nigerians who fled Boko Haram violence over the past few years. (Photo by Giles Clarke/Getty Images)

Commentary

The North-South Divide: Nigerian Discourses on Boko Haram, the Fulani, and Islamization

Michael Nwankpa

Director, Centre for African Conflict and Development

Michael Nwankpa

Oct 26, 2021

Commentary

Long Read

Women rest inside an indoor sports stadium in Pemba on May 22, 2021 (Photo by JOHN WESSELS/AFP via Getty Images)

Commentary

The Counterterrorism Conundrum: Exploring the Evolution of South Africa’s Extremist Networks

Brenda Githing'u

Independent Research Consultant and Counter-Terrorism Analyst

Brenda Githing'u

Oct 23, 2021

Commentary

3 Min Read

Commentary

Hudson Institute Honors Neal & Linden Blue with 2021 Herman Kahn Award

Hudson Institute

Oct 22, 2021

Commentary

1 Min Read

An artist’s rendering of the future Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine, 2019. (U.S. Navy)

Reports

Modernizing the Nuclear Triad: Decline or Renewal?

Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr.

Senior Fellow

Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr.

Reports

9 Min Read

Taiwan Airborne Service Corps conducts an anti-terror drill in Taipei, Taiwan on October 10, 2020. (Photo by Annabelle Chih/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Commentary

Taiwan's Special Operations Forces

Seth Cropsey

President, Yorktown Institute

Seth Cropsey

Oct 21, 2021

Commentary

7 Min Read

Members of the World Health Organization (WHO) team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 coronavirus arrive by car at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan on February 3, 2021. (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images)

Commentary

China’s COVID Coverup and Its Terrible Costs Demand Accountability. US Must Step Up

Michael R. Pompeo

Former Distinguished Fellow

Lewis Libby

Former Senior Vice President

Michael R. Pompeo & Lewis Libby

Oct 21, 2021

Commentary

5 Min Read

Cargo containers sit stacked on ships at the Port of Los Angeles, the nation’s busiest container port, on October 15, 2021 in San Pedro, California. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Commentary

The US Is Wholly Unequipped to Resupply Forces in a Great-Power Conflict

Seth Cropsey

President, Yorktown Institute

Harry Halem

Research Assistant

Seth Cropsey & Harry Halem

Oct 21, 2021

Commentary

4 Min Read

The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Marisol Walker)

Commentary

The Distracted Defense Department

Nadia Schadlow

Senior Fellow

Nadia Schadlow

Oct 21, 2021

Commentary

2 Min Read

Royal Australian Navy submarine HMAS Sheean arrives in Devonport on April 22, 2021 in Tasmania, Australia. (Photo by POIS Andrew Dakin/Australian Defence Force via Getty Images)

Commentary

Can the Australia-India-Japan Strategic Triangle Counter China?