National Security

For our wedding anniversary this year, my wife and I decided to celebrate in the United Kingdom, mostly in London. We stayed at the Royal Horseguards Hotel in the political...

The story of the government documents that Donald Trump stashed at Mar-a-Lago continues to become increasingly alarming regarding the nature of the material and the difficulties in identifying the full...

Europe’s largest country, Russia, has invaded its smaller neighbor Ukraine in what has become the biggest war in Europe in seventy-five years. Asia’s largest country, China, is tacitly supporting Russian...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Welcome to Confessions Of, an occasional series where Task & Purpose’s James Clark solicits hilarious, embarrassing, and revealing stories from troops and vets about their...

U.S. leaders could greatly reduce the risk that adversaries of the United States will join forces and engage in a catastrophic attack on the U.S. homeland by adopting a new...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: While the U.S. Army is concerned about next-generation Russian precision rifles and tactics, China has also been making significant advances in the field. In...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: A RAND Corporation exhaustive survey back in 2018 of 81 soldiers between E-1 and E-4 suggests that the choice to enlist is influenced by two overlapping factors: institutional...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: From the legendary M1 Garand to today’s M4 and M16 rifles, standard-issue infantry rifles have been the ubiquitous icons of the troops who carried them....

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Welcome to Confessions Of, an occasional series where Task & Purpose’s James Clark solicits hilarious, embarrassing, and revealing stories from troops and vets about their...

Managing the U.S. disengagement from Afghanistan is the top foreign policy priority of the country until it evacuates all American citizens and Afghan partners who want to leave. Once that...

Opponents of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan are using the images of desperate Afghans seeking flights out of the Kabul airport to attack the U.S. decision to leave the decades-long...

FOR THREE-QUARTERS of a century, a highly developed continent composed of sovereign nations put its defense in the hands of someone else. In practice, European defense depended on the United...