National Security Strategy

What the Lame Duck Session Has to Do With the Ultimate 21st-Century Power Tool: Robots

Standard Bots CEO Evan Beard told Congress China installed nine times more industrial robots than the US in 2024, and the supply chain behind them is nearly all foreign-made.

By Holly Page

The Axis Is Already at War: A Conversation with RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

Montgomery details 600+ documented instances of Russia, China, Iran and North Korea trading weapons tech, troops and cash to sustain the war on Ukraine.

By Lynn Schmidt

Jennifer Reeves on Space, Money, and the Race With China

Reeves argues the real threat to U.S. space dominance isn't China's pace but Washington's own budget dysfunction: "Where the money lands is where the strategy is."

By Lynn Schmidt

Golden Dome’s Hardest Problem Isn’t Technology. It’s Culture.

Golden Dome's real obstacle is organizational behavior, not missing hardware or funding.

By Michael Johannessen

How Will America Win the Future? First, We Build

Apollo estimates it will take roughly $2 trillion to rebuild America's manufacturing and defense base to 2000s-era levels.

By The Editors, mtf.news

Trump’s Venezuela Deal Puts His Western Hemisphere Strategy in Sharp Focus

By Elise Labott

The Bridge Builder: Why A Space Command Veteran Took His Talents to the Hill

From Space Operations crew commander to a congressional chief of staff, he's pushing Washington to treat orbit as critical infrastructure, not a frontier.

By Lynn Schmidt

A High-Low Weapons Strategy requires a High-Low Supply Chain

By Luke Pototschnik

Critical minerals are now a full-spectrum instrument of national power

By Elise Labott

The Convergence Imperative

Why physical and cyber security must fuse through AI — and why one practitioner’s career shows it’s already happening.

By Lynn Schmidt

AI Revolutionizing Warfare Now

By Kevin Cirilli

Decoding America's Quantum Future

Former Acting Pentagon CIO Leslie A. Beavers tells mtf.news cofounder and iHeart Media host HELLO FUTURE Kevin Cirilli that America is on track to be quantum-ready — but only if we keep our foot on the gas.

By Kevin Cirilli

Exclusive: U.S. Faces Sustained Cyber Invasion by Nation-State Actors, Former Pentagon CIO Warns

By Kevin Cirilli

The Fourth Intelligence Revolution: Citizen Intelligence Officers?

By Kevin Cirilli

Space Symposium Highlights: U.S. Space Force's 2040 Vision

By Kevin Cirilli