Guam Defense: The Plans and the Price
The Pentagon is building its densest air and missile defense outside the continental United States on a 212-square-mile island, and the bill keeps growing.
Security
Coverage spanning defense posture, intelligence oversight, homeland security and cyber threats to infrastructure, built on testimony and public documents.
How the Military Fixed Recruiting
After a 15,000-recruit shortfall in 2023, the services rebuilt their recruiting model around preparation courses and bigger budgets — and hit their fiscal 2025 goals early.
Why US Water Systems Face Cyber Risk
Sixteen thousand wastewater and fifty thousand drinking water systems, most of them tiny utilities with no security staff, are the country's least defended critical infrastructure.
Defense Consolidation: Why 5 Firms Rule
Three decades of mergers turned a fifty-company defense industry into five prime contractors, and the Pentagon is now spending billions trying to manage the consequences.
AUKUS Pillar II: Tech, Not Submarines
The second pillar of the Australia-UK-US partnership is about hypersonics, undersea drones and AI — and it is designed to plug non-US allies into American defense technology.
Golden Dome: The Architecture, Explained
The planned homeland missile defense shield is less a single dome than a stack of sensors, interceptors and command software that does not yet exist.