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Handout photo dated May 2, 2024 shows Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Launch/Recovery) Airman Tyler Cardamone, from Peak, Delaware, assigned to air department’s V-2 division, gives a thumbs up as an F/A-18F Super Hornet from Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 103 takes off from the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) in the Atlantic Ocean.

Geopolitics Prevailing in an era of comprehensive conflict

Mara Karlin

February 12, 2025

The entrance of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is seen in The Hague March 3, 2011.

U.S. Foreign Policy ICC sanctions will hurt, not help, the United States

Kelebogile Zvobgo

February 12, 2025

The command team of the 1-3rd Attack “Viper” Battalion address the women in the battalion during exercise Saber Strike 22 to celebrate Women’s history month at Lielvarde Air Base, March 15, 2022.

Society & Culture Think the military lowered its standards for women? Think again.

Michael E. O’Hanlon, Amy McGrath

February 11, 2025

LTG Keith Kellogg, Co-Chair, Center for American Security America First Policy Institute, appears before a Senate Committee on Armed Services hearing to examine the conflict in Ukraine, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC,USA, Tuesday, February 28, 2023. Photo by Rod Lamkey/CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

U.S. Defense Policy Preparing to broker a Russia-Ukraine settlement

Steven Pifer

February 6, 2025

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The Talbott Papers on Implications of Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

Named in honor of American statesman and former Brookings Institution President Strobe Talbott, “The Talbott Papers on Implications of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine” is a series of policy analyses that aims to understand the conflict in Ukraine.

National Security Industrial Base

The Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology at Brookings has formed a working group that will study the future of the national security industrial base.

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