Defense And Security Archive
Archives for November 2018


The vote won’t change anything yet, but it’s still a big deal — and a huge rebuke to Trump and Saudi Arabia.


If he nixes the meeting, it’d be quite the change for Trump.


The letter, containing all the signatures, will be sent to Sens. Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer on Tuesday.


Why attacks on Ukrainian ships amount to the greatest — and scariest — escalation in years.


“A state-sponsorship designation is a sledgehammer, not a scalpel,” said an expert.


An expert explains the seemingly everlasting history of the US-Saudi alliance.


There are so many exclamation points.


If true, it would show the Saudi operation was far bolder than known to date.


“This was both the least they could have done and the most we should have expected,” an expert said.


Riyadh charged 11 people in connection to the journalist’s death — and none of them were Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.


He just fully defended Trump’s military deployment.


“It’s entirely possible that it will spiral into a full-blown war,” an expert said.


A top congressional panel is worried about China’s military advances.


Why the US has little leverage to end the Yemen crisis.


A new report shows it’s improving its missile program — something Pyongyang said it would do.