Esper Exhorts Allies To Ban Chinese 5G: Britain’s Huawei Dilemma

Esper Exhorts Allies To Ban Chinese 5G: Britain’s Huawei Dilemma
Esper Exhorts Allies To Ban Chinese 5G: Britain’s Huawei Dilemma

London is on the verge of a much-delayed and debated decision about allowing Huawei to build “non-core” components of its 5G network.

Trump’s Wrecking Ball Ideology

Trump’s Wrecking Ball Ideology
Trump’s Wrecking Ball Ideology

A year ago, it would have been tempting to write off President Trump’s “bull in a china shop” diplomacy as the product of inexperience and impulsiveness. However, after eighteen months in the White House tenure, Trump is looking like a man with a method, a leader acting according to a consistent ideology — if not…

Washington Must Tell Saudi Prince No More Help For Yemen

Washington Must Tell Saudi Prince No More Help For Yemen
Washington Must Tell Saudi Prince No More Help For Yemen

The Saudi intervention in Yemen is a strategic catastrophe that has added to regional chaos and fostered the most acute humanitarian crisis on the globe. President Trump must stop making the Saudi intervention in Yemen possible.

Allies “Entering a New World” in Confronting Russia, U.K. Official Says

Allies “Entering a New World” in Confronting Russia, U.K. Official Says
Allies “Entering a New World” in Confronting Russia, U.K. Official Says

A British defense official talks about an age of competition among great powers, putting the Ministry of Defense on the same page as its Pentagon colleagues

Doomsday Clock Sweeps Forward At End of Trump’s First Week

Doomsday Clock Sweeps Forward At End of Trump’s First Week
Doomsday Clock Sweeps Forward At End of Trump’s First Week

WASHINGTON: A disruptive leader disrupts. Large and fast disruptions of the global order rarely portend happier times and that would seem to be the case as the first week of the Trump Administration comes to an end. “For the first time in the 70-year history of the Doomsday Clock, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Science…

Is Trump, Information Warrior, Key To Defeating Daesh (ISIL)?

Is Trump, Information Warrior, Key To Defeating Daesh (ISIL)?
Is Trump, Information Warrior, Key To Defeating Daesh (ISIL)?

President-elect Trump has promised to destroy Daesh. If Trump wants to avoid being the third Administration in succession to sink into the morass of the Middle East, it is essential to first ask what declaring victory would look like. Part of the West’s challenge is rooted in that Daesh is a brand inside a religion and…

UK Defense Minister Survives New PM’s Clean Sweep; UK Sole Source Deals Criticized

UK Defense Minister Survives New PM’s Clean Sweep; UK Sole Source Deals Criticized
UK Defense Minister Survives New PM’s Clean Sweep; UK Sole Source Deals Criticized

LONDON: Sen. John McCain would be howling if 49 percent of Pentagon contracts were not competed — especially if that had been true for more than nine years. How would McCain and his colleagues react if a company awarded a sole source deal charged the government $34,000 for a charitable donation or for “staff welfare?” One can only…