Mark Montgomery

Congrats to Mike G on his confirmation. Now comes the hard part - getting an unwieldy DoD focused on a space based defense of the homeland against cruise, ballistic and hypersonic threats. Step 1 - figure out how to connect every sensor & every shooter airandspaceforces.com/space-force-gu…

President Trump made a good call on supplying defensive weapons to Ukraine - now he needs to do one more thing - provide offensive systems - ATACMS - with no policy use limitations.

We cannot allow our adversary to dictate how we work with our ally. @MarkCMontgomery emphasizes the importance of US joint military exercises with Taiwan.

Trump appears to be headed in the right direction on Ukraine. Frustrated with Moscow’s refusal to end its unprovoked war, Trump may be sending Kyiv much-needed arms and is threatening tougher sanctions on Russia. Trump should commit fully to this strategy nypost.com/2025/07/11/opi…

“How this can get rectified in the long term is through skilled bureaucratic leaders who advocate effectively in the budgeting process. Sean Cairncross and Sean Plankey are exactly those kinds of leaders,” Montgomery says. csoonline.com/article/401910…

Trump believed he sent a clear message to Putin in June that the time had come to stop the attacks on Ukrainian civilians and come to the table to discuss a ceasefire. But instead of de-esclating, Russia increased the severity of its attacks. Trump felt disrespected, Montgomery…

Diverting weapons deliveries from Ukraine benefits Russia & weakens Trump’s hand when negotiating with Putin. This will lead to increased civilian casualties and is bad for Ukraine, bad for America and bad for deterrence nypost.com/2025/07/02/opi…

Maintaining tech leadership should be our top priority. The U.S. has not taken enough action to protect its leadership position. China is using loopholes and workarounds in our export policy to continue development of chips with US open source tech fdd.org/analysis/2025/…

The US needs to ensure it continues to “win” at the diplomatic table & not toss away the gains made by the IDF & US military in the skies over Iran. If Iran won’t agree to total dismantlement of its nuclear & missile programs at the peace table, Trump should send the IDF back in

Good discussion of successful NATO Summit with @Brad_L_Bowman - POTUS returns from NATO with a much better attitude towards our European partners (minus Spain). Hopefully this can translate into more consistent U.S. DIB support and access for Ukraine. fdd.org/podcasts/2025/…

Fun to talk on CSPAN and not get any UFO questions !! A detailed discussion of Iran-Israel and US military capabilities in the Middle East. tinyurl.com/3n2n6zx6

This week's NATO Summit is a great chance to address the cyber & physical security of the critical infrastructures that support the military mobility of NATO forces. You can't win if you don't get to the fight @afixler and I discuss spending the 1.5% right thecipherbrief.com/nato-s-critica…

The existing cyber force generation model has never worked, it is well past time for a separate Cyber Service - good piece by @jiwonma92 and Dr Erica Lonergan defensescoop.com/2025/06/20/pen…

If Iran is foolish enough to strike out at the US in retaliation for this, then America should respond with B-2 Stealth Bombers and Massive Ordnance Penetrators that would finish up the job on Iran’s nuclear enrichment and storage assets. nypost.com/2025/06/14/opi…

Also at @OneRSAC, I joined fellow DC folks to talk about "Cyber Policy in a New Washington: Priorities from Pennsylvania Avenue." My friend Frank Cilluffo of @McCraryCyber led an examination the implications and potential for cyber policymaking and the road ahead. Check it out…

At last month's @OneRSAC, I participated in a panel titled "How & Why Major Threat Actors Leverage Cyberpower to Subvert Democracy". The brilliant Gentry Lane and I discussed adversary use of cyberpower during peace, competition, and conflict, as well as adversary motivation,…

Great speech by SECDEF, he called the CCP an imminent danger to democracies in Asia. Now we should explicitly & publically grow our tools to combat the CCP & support Taiwan - bilat exercises, the Joint Training Team & the Taiwan Security Coop Initiative defensenews.com/pentagon/2025/…

Sean Plankey will be a great CISA Director - and we need CISA's long term leadership in place now. CISA is the nation's Civilian Cyber Defense Agency - any delays on national security selections only advantage the adversary. forbes.com/sites/emilsaye…

VOA & its partners RFE/RFA need to be funded & operated to tell the American story and debunk lies told by China, Russia, Iran & others. If the Admin does not like the product they should fix VOA not disarm the US in the influence ops field @ivanastradner washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-amer…

Ukrainian F-16s are making a difference on the battlefield and saving civilian lives from brutal Russian missile attacks - with a little more help from the US and key allies they can do even more. Great work Netherlands/Denmark and soon Norway/Belgium nypost.com/2025/05/29/opi…