COLUMBUS, Ga. — During a trip to Fort Benning on Thursday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the department is working on reestablishing deterrence "so that when the enemy sees an American, they don ...

America's outdated nuclear deterrence policy is hindering the country's missile defense program, constraining it to a "limited missile defense" strategy. Consequently, essential missile defense ...

Much has been written about the National Guard’s dual-use nature—ready to respond to state and federal missions alike—but less well understood is how these missions intersect. Defense leaders and ...

Personnel test load an unarmed B61-12 bomb, which can be outfitted with a nuclear warhead, on a B-2 Spirit bomber in 2022 at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri. (A1C Devan Halstead/U.S. Air Force) ...

Robert Peters is a Senior Research Fellow for Strategic Deterrence in Heritage’s Allison Center for National Security. Extended deterrence is a stabilizing force that allows Americans to focus on ...

The United States relies on its unmatched network of allies and partners in operations, intelligence sharing, and defense production and logistics. Robust defense industrial cooperation strengthens ...

PARIS—France’s Air and Space Force is studying how to separate the Dassault Rafale fighters and Airbus A330 multirole tanker transports (MRTT) it uses for nuclear deterrence from the rest of its ...