Military

The success of AUKUS is important for validating and refining a kind of joint defense model that the United States can use to forge more productive partnerships.

How the growing politicization of the U.S. intelligence community undermines the integrity of decision-making on Iran and national security more broadly.

Why did Israel, and then the United States, decide to attack Iran now, even as U.S.-Iranian negotiations sputtered along?

"An alarming escalation of the president's efforts to use the military as a domestic police force. Based on currently available information, it appears to be illegal, as well"

The White House’s legal justifications for attacking Iran are unconvincing and raise concerns about unauthorized use of force. Congress should push back.

"Congress has been far more clear than is widely believed about what its view is..."

The constellation of forces in Israel, the United States, and beyond complicates efforts to find an off-ramp to the war.

Europe must accept that continued dependence on the United States is not viable and build a fully self-sufficient European defense.

"The state of California, however, has not yet raised this point in the ongoing litigation. That is a missed opportunity ...."

The President’s invocation of purported authority to deploy the military in response to free speech raises alarming applications of untested laws meant only for emergencies.

The Israel-Iran crisis will be a key test for how the Trump administration handles national security crises and its ability to respond.

An expert discussion with audience Q&A on the events in Los Angeles, the federalization of the National Guard, and use of U.S. Marines.