Achieving a healthy rebalance in civil-military relations requires rebalanced investment in competing institutions and elements of national power, writes Todd Schmidt.

For the United States and Israel, the most serious security concern in Syria remains the continued Iranian involvement, writes Abraham Wagner.

Any final outcome from the peace talks between the United States and the Taliban in Afghanistan must honor the sacrifices of Americans and Afghans, as well as the integrity of the Afghan constitution, the ideal of representative government, and the belief that all Afghans deserve equal consideration and treatment under the law, writes Haroon Azar.

The next president of the United States must help to make the country part of the solution, and not continue to have the United States be part of the problem when it comes to the pandemic, writes Thomas Coates.

At present no one can say when and if Saudi Arabia will join peace accords with Israel, and Syria should also be considered, writes Abraham Wagner.

It is critical that our policymakers learn quickly and act decisively, including through the development and deployment of mitigation measures at our border, before the next pandemic hits, write Robert Bonner and Gillian Horton.

Clinging to the consensus has won the party little respect from Beijing, while putting it out of step with the majority of Taiwanese opinion, write Derek Grossman and Brandon Alexander Millan.

What is the current state of Russia’s relations with China and the Indo-Pacific? And what are the prospects for Russia as an Indo-Pacific power? For a perspective on these matters, Jongsoo Lee interviews Dmitri Trenin, director of the Carnegie Moscow Center and chair of the Center’s Foreign and Security Policy Program.

The United States and Fiji continue to strengthen security cooperation, which should be seen in the context of Washington’s prioritization of the Indo-Pacific region, writes C. Steven McGann.

Heightened safety precautions are needed in a pandemic more than ever, writes Seth Freeman.