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I first talked to a military official about the electromagnetic spectrum about a dozen years ago during a visit to Hill Air Force Base in Utah...

On the same day that the European body slapped Saudi on the list, Pompeo sat next to the Saudi foreign minister at a summit in Poland?

"He clearly wants a war before Trump leaves office and shouldn't be underestimated..."

In rejecting one statistic regarding the size of the U.S. defense budget, Robert J. Samuelson missed the point and undermined his own argument in his Jan. 28 op-ed, “The truth about defense spending.” The United States now spends more on the military, in inflation-adjusted dollars, than it did at the height of the Korean War, the Vietnam War or the Cold War...

Welcome to the Defense Download! This new round-up is intended to highlight what we at the Cato Institute are keeping tabs on in the world of defense politics every week...

Trump appears to have returned to the non-interventionist posture that helped get him elected, back when he called the Iraq War a fiasco and lamented the loss of trillions in military costs that could have been used to rebuild America. This strain of his thought was exemplified in this week’s State of the Union speech when he asserted that “great nations don’t fight endless wars,” in part as a defense of his decisions to pull troops out of Syria and Afghanistan...

Republicans? share of the pro-Israel lobby?s contributions rose to 47% in the 2016 cycle, but then dipped to 36% for 2018.

For a man who regularly rails against the activities of criminal gangs and has claimed victory in the war on ISIS, President Donald Trump sure plays fast and loose when it comes to keeping weapons out of the hands of those who shouldn't possess them...

In July 2017, we began a polling project to measure public confidence in government institutions on national security matters on an ongoing basis. This post provides our data for the month of January 2019...

The U.S. relationship with the United Arab Emirates has received relatively little attention, de- spite the fact that it involves billions of dollars in weapons and training that have been used to prosecute a brutal war in Yemen...

Can it be? Lawmakers say they’re making progress toward a deal that could avert another partial government shutdown...

The US sold weapons to allies in the Middle East -- and now some are in the hands of al Qaeda-linked fighters and Iranian-backed rebels...