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May 23, 2025

Foreign Policy
The Armed Forces of the Future

The future of defense strategy requires restructuring forces for modern threats, focusing deployments on critical regions, accelerating tech integration, reforming procurement and budgets, revitalizi…

U.S. President Donald Trump makes an announcement regarding the Golden Dome missile defense shield next to U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 20, 2025.

May 7, 2025

India
On India-Pakistan Conflict, The United States Needs to Tread Carefully

India’s aerial attacks on Pakistan mark a sharp escalation in tensions between the two nuclear-armed nations following an attack in Kashmir that killed twenty-six tourists and posing a dilemma for U…

People stand surrounding and looking at a part of a downed aircraft.

May 1, 2025

Daily News Brief
United States and Ukraine Ink Minerals Deal

Welcome to the Daily News Brief, CFR’s flagship morning newsletter summarizing the top global news and analysis of the day.  Subscribe to the Daily News Brief to receive it every weekday morning. …

An excavator digs as mining dump trucks drive in the Southern Iron Ore JV open-pit mine, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine April 23, 2025.

February 11, 2025

United States
CFR Task Force Report: Securing Space—A Plan for U.S. Action

In its new report, Securing Space: A Plan for U.S. Action, the CFR Task Force on Space Management Policy analyzes the challenges in low Earth orbit, where the acceleration in human space activity is …

NASA handout of astronaut Hopkins, participating in the second of two spacewalks

March 11, 2025

Ukraine
Here’s How Much Aid the United States Has Sent Ukraine

Ten charts illustrate the extraordinary level of support the United States has provided Ukraine in its war against Russian invaders.

Ukrainian soldiers use U.S. weaponry on the northeastern front with Russia.

March 25, 2025

United States
Transition 2025 Series: The Future of Immigration Policy and Border Security in the United States

Panelists discuss the Trump administration’s immigration policies, including increased deportations, the attempt to end birthright citizenship, and the suspension of refugee admissions, as well as th…

Play Transition 2025 Series: The Future of Immigration Policy and Border Security in the United States

May 7, 2025

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Rubio's Reforms at State: Good Steps and Bad

Secretary of State Rubio is right to place Palestinian affairs under the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, but would be wrong to eliminate the position of U.S. Security Coordinator.

March 28, 2025

Middle East and North Africa
U.S. Forces in the Middle East: Mapping the Military Presence

The ramped-up U.S. attacks against the Yemen-based Houthis are possible in part due to an extensive military footprint in the Middle East. This includes a collection of permanent U.S. bases and vario…

A photo of an aircraft at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar

March 13, 2025

Space
A New Roadmap for Space

In this episode of The Interconnect, Stanford University Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics Simone D’Amico and CFR’s Space Task Force Project Director Esther Brimmer discuss how private compan…

Podcast Astronaut wearing a space suit.

May 1, 2025

U.S. Foreign Policy
Reform of the State Department Gets Going

Secretary of State Rubio has unveiled a serious reform plan for the Department, but it needs close attention from Congress and some reform itself.