The Pentagon’s new Special Ops leader is looking to the defense industry for help in meeting peer adversaries, but he also has a bone to pick.

The Army can cope with regional dangers like Iran even as it refocuses on Russia and China, the secretary said. In fact, he said, the Army’s controversial modernization program will help with both sets of threats.

The resignation of Trump’s assistant secretary for arms control and verification weakens the State Department’s already shaky bench in arms control talks.

The military needs a globe-spanning network to counter threats that no single theater command can cope with. That takes more than just technology.

The Pentagon has long worried about the multi-billion dollar price tag that comes along with building a new interceptor field and its infrastructure. Influential lawmakers want a permanent site built that will support close to 1,000 jobs in their districts.

The Acting Defense Secretary, with less than two years of national security experience under his belt, is poised to take over a department in the throes of a rapid modernization project, while rattling sabres with Iran, Venezuela, North Korea, China, and Russia.

China is copying malware the NSA has used against them. Is this preventable or is it an inherent weakness of cyber warfare?

The Navy has created a new fleet, and is sending it straight into the Baltic Sea to test new ways of doing business.

A White House 180-degree turn on nuclear arms control inflicts whiplash on experts. What is real here?

“In the ideal world we would want our competitors to respond to our moves instead of us responding to them… We would want to make many of the first moves on our own.”