National Security Briefs

National Security Briefs

The Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen launched an Iranian Samad-3 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) on July 19 that killed one person and injured ten other individuals in Tel Aviv, Israel. The strike underscored that the war started by Hamas’s October 7

 The Iranian regime’s reported plot to assassinate former President Donald Trump, if accurate, is an unacceptable and unprecedented attempt to perpetrate violence on American soil and meddle in U.S. politics. It is the logical culmination of a passive U.S. policy

After a nearly three-month pause in Iran-linked attacks on U.S. forces in the Middle East, Iran-backed militia attacked the Ain al-Assad base in Iraq, which hosts U.S. troops, on July 16. Similar to two attacks that these groups launched in

The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) remains must-pass legislation for Congress each year due to its importance in both framing U.S. national security policy across a broad spectrum of issues on a bipartisan basis and enabling effective congressional oversight of