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Playing Defense Against Terrorism Is Totally Fine (Luke Hartig, Defense One)

If you’ve turned on any cable-news channel or opened any newspaper or magazine since most of Afghanistan fell to the Taliban last month, you can see a clear narrative emerging: The...

Greece signs pact to buy three frigates from France (Sebastian Sprenger, Defense News)

The Greek ministry of defense has committed to buying three frigates from France’s Naval Group with weaponry supplied by MBDA in a potential $3.5...

Space Force issues $47.5 million for prototype data transport service (Nathan Strout, Defense News)

The U.S. Space Force has awarded Sev1Tech a $47.5 million contract to demonstrate a prototype data transport capability that will help connect its space...

Czech Republic buys Israeli Spyder air-defense weapon for $627 million (Jaroslaw Adamowski, Defense News)

The Czech Ministry of Defence has signed a deal to acquire the Spyder surface-to-air missile systems made by Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems. The...

Defense Department shakeup must not derail homeland missile defense priorities (Howard Thompson, Defense News)

News broke last week that as part of a reorganization within the Department of Defense, the position of deputy assistant secretary of defense for nuclear and...

Could Britain stop Argentina from buying the JF-17 warplane? (Usman Ansari, Defense News)

Argentina insists reports the country is buying the JF-17 Thunder warplane are premature, but analysts believe it could still succeed where other fighter types failed —...

The Need for a Congressional Inquest into America’s Longest War (Sarosh Bana, BESA Center)

Events in Afghanistan have come full circle, with the Taliban—whose government fell to US military advances in 2001 —regaining power and taking possession of...

Saudi Social and Economic Changes Require a Delicate Balancing Act (James M. Dorsey, BESA Center)

Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman’s vision for the kingdom’s future will have to toe a fine line between redefining the Saudi social contract...

ISIS and Its War on the Taliban (Galit Truman Zinman, BESA Center)

The attack by ISIS on Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul at the end of August targeted both the American “crusaders” and the Taliban,...

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