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January 8 - 2018 Legislative Preview: Authorization for Use of Military Force

January 8 - 2018 Legislative Preview: Defense Appropriations

January 8 - 2018 Legislative Preview: Defense Authorization

January 8 - Common Defense: Being First Could Make Us Lonely

January 8 - Navy Says Short-Term Fixes Sink Long-Term Readiness

January 16 - Capitol Hill Comings and Goings

January 22 - Anatomy of a Vote: The Song Remains the Same

January 22 - Capitol Hill Comings and Goings

January 22 - Congress and the Moment of Silence

January 22 - Surveillance Bill Marks Win for House Intelligence Committee Over Judiciary

January 22 - The Army's Ryan McCarthy Pulls the Plug on Bad Acquisitions

January 22 - U.S. Nuclear Arsenal Stands at a Critical Crossroads

January 29 - As Shutdown Loomed, Pentagon Bemoaned Funding's Unpredictability

January 29 - Charging Ahead With Battlefield Treatments

January 29 - Common Defense: What We've Got Here Is Failure to Communicate

February 5 - Capitol Hill Comings and Goings

February 5 - Nonproliferation Expert Schools Hill Aides on the Danger of Nuclear Annihilation

February 12 - Anatomy of a Vote: Budget Deal Ends One Fight, Starts Another

February 26 - Capitol Hill Comings and Goings

February 26 - Common Defense: Cyberattacks are the IEDs of Modern Conflict

February 26 - Defense Bill's New Lobbying Restrictions May Send Contractors Scrambling

March 5 - 18 to Watch in '18: Ben FitzGerald

March 5 - CQ's Annual People to Watch: 18 for '18

March 5 - Former Japanese Prime Minister Has an Issue With U.S.

March 12 - 2019 Budget: Army Corps of Engineers

March 12 - 2019 Budget: Defense

March 12 - 2019 Budget: Discretionary Programs Bear the Brunt of Cuts

March 12 - Military Readiness In Danger as More Youth Deemed Ineligible to Serve

March 19 - Capitol Hill Comings and Goings

March 19 - Common Defense: Pompeo and Circumstance - Brakeman or Wingman?

March 19 - Dispute Over Emergency Supplies Slows Pandemic Preparedness Bill

March 19 - Growing Debt and China's Ambitions Threaten U.S. Might

March 19 - Mainland Missiles Anchor China's Defense

March 19 - Pentagon: China's Got Nothing on Our Artificial Intelligence

March 19 - Trump Gives Whiplash to Some Steadfast Supporters

March 19 - U.S. Relationship With China Is Very Carefully Defined

April 9 - If It Wanted to, South Korea Could Build Its Own Bomb

April 9 - Navy Rejects Humanist Chaplain

April 9 - South Korean Conservatives' Idea for Deterring the North: Nukes

April 23 - Common Defense: 'America First' Gets a Little Help From Our Friends

April 23 - The Endless War in Afghanistan Fades Into the Shadows

May 7 - The Other North Korean Threat: Chemical and Biological Weapons

May 14 - More Scrutiny Sought for Tech Transfers

May 14 - Rise of the Machines: Artificial Intelligence Challenges Pentagon

May 14 - Should Autonomous Weapons Be Banned?

June 11 - Anatomy of a Vote: First Minibus Pulls Out of the Garage

June 18 - Anatomy of a Vote: China Takes Center Stage on Defense Bill

June 18 - Common Defense: What If North Korea Were No Longer a Threat?

June 18 - Spike in NSA Surveillance Has Civil Libertarians Worried

June 18 - Texans Seek Info on Academic Ties to China

June 18 - The Pentagon's $1.5 Trillion Gamble

July 9 - Burn Pits Get the Attention of Congress

July 16 - Common Defense: A Dangerous Dalliance for the Disruptor in Chief

July 16 - Russia Report: Dangerous Liaisons

July 16 - Russia Report: Just Minutes to Avert Nuclear Devastation

July 16 - Russia Report: Senators Push for Refocus on NATO

July 16 - Russia Report: The Kremlin Heats Up the Arctic

July 16 - Russia Report: Timeline of a Superpower Relationship

July 16 - Tariffs Meant to Protect America Could Have the Opposite Effect

July 23 - NATO Defense Hikes Could Help EU Contractors, Not U.S.

July 30 - 2019 Appropriations: Bipartisanship May Not Be Enough

July 30 - 2019 Appropriations: Defense

July 30 - 2019 Appropriations: Military Construction-VA

September 4 - Common Defense: The Pentagon Has Lost Its Most Important Overseer

September 10 - Gauging Kyl's Impact in the Senate

September 17 - Anatomy of a Vote: A Decade of Futility Ends as Spending Bills Pass

September 24 - Common Defense: Flush With Cash, It's Time for the Pentagon to Retrench

October 9 - Common Defense: Politically Speaking, the Pentagon Can't Lose

October 22 - Common Defense: The Cyber War Is On, and We Are Losing

November 12 - 116th Congress: House Armed Services Committee

November 12 - 116th Congress: Senate Armed Services Committee

November 12 - 116th Congress: Senate Foreign Relations Committee

November 12 - 116th Congress: Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee

December 3 - GAO: Pentagon Lags on Contract Oversight

December 3 - Trump Loves Space Force. Can He Convince Skeptical Lawmakers?

December 10 - Common Defense: Forgotten War Could Soon Be Back in the Spotlight