Mara Rudman

1 month ago | thedispatch.com | John Mccormack |Mara Rudman |Charlotte Lawson |Grayson Logue

On the first day of his second term in office, President Donald Trump issued an executive order mandating an immediate “pause” of new foreign aid while programs were evaluated for whether they were “fully aligned with the foreign policy of the President of the United States.” And on January 24, Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued an order for foreign aid programs to stop work even on programs for which funds had already been distributed.

2 months ago | thedispatch.com | Mara Rudman |Nick Catoggio |Charlotte Lawson |Grayson Logue

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are behaving as if the federal government is a rent-by-the-hour rage room where they can “experience the thrill of smashing stuff.”  But their sledgehammer swings are taking down their fellow Americans and destroying useful tools that, when deployed strategically, have been key to U.S. national and economic security for decades. And their actions offer up that toolbox to China and Russia not at fire-sale prices, but gratis.

2 months ago | thedispatch.com | Kevin Williamson |Mara Rudman |Michael Warren |Nick Catoggio

There is a cliché about not letting the perfect be the enemy of the good, and it’s a fine piece of wisdom as far as such maxims go, but the perfect is not the only enemy of the good. The bad, for example, is also the enemy of the good. My friends over at National Review have published an editorial that is not good, and not because it is less than perfect but because it is bad.

Oct 27, 2024 | post-gazette.com | Mara Rudman

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Oct 21, 2024 | breakingdefense.com | Mara Rudman |Becca Wasser |Aaron Mehta

Earlier this year, the bipartisan congressionally-appointed commission on which we serve sounded the alarm that America is at risk of losing its military and technological edge to China. One way to meet that challenge is to redefine how the industrial base fits into national security to create an all-elements of national power approach. Currently, the view of industrial national security tends to focus on efforts to keep the defense industrial base healthy, productive, and resilient.