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Democrats preparing to take over the House are aiming to roll back what they see as President Donald Trump’s overly aggressive nuclear

North Korea’s build-up of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles is disrupting peace in Northeast Asia and may soon plummet Northeast Asia into

America’s military superiority has “eroded to a dangerous degree,” leaving the U.S. in a “crisis of national security,” especially if faced with

In the past decade, U.S. debt held by the public has risen to $15.9 trillion from $5.1 trillion, but financing all of

The Democrats’ recapturing the House means three major impacts on the Defense Department: The odds are that controversial Trump priorities like new

Leaked a month before its actual release, the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) initially unleashed a frenetic and somewhat nasty debate, especially

The U.S. intelligence community and the Pentagon have quietly agreed on the outlines of an offensive cyberattack that the United States would

President Donald Trump announced at a campaign rally on October 20 that the United States would withdraw from the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces

ou are not alone when you experience that sinking feeling when your smartphone battery is low; “ Nomofobia” is actually a new

The US Navy’s Pacific Fleet has drawn up a classified proposal to carry out a global show of force as a warning

The bitter trade dispute between China and the US is increasingly spilling into the military domain, with a risky incident in the

“Deterrence is concerned with influencing the choices that another party will make, and doing it by influencing his expectations of how we