American auto manufacturers are preparing to shut down production lines. Defense manufacturers may not be far behind. The tit ...

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Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s recent visit to three Southeast Asian countries drew widespread headlines — not only for diplomatic pageantry but also for its ...

Resistance “Why Ukraine Is Not a Universal Resistance Model,” by Brian Petit (02/2024) “ Roots of the Resistance: Understanding National Identity in Ukraine,” by Aaron Erlich (4/2022) “ Of Roadside ...

Of course, calling for an end to counterforce targeting requires articulating an alternative. I advocate CMI targeting, which is an acronym I came up with to describe holding C onventional M ilitary ...

The Iran-Iraq War would become characterized by long lines of trenches, barbed wire, and heavy use of artillery, at the time drawing comparisons to World War I. In 2022, both Ukraine and Russia have ...

James Kraska is Charles H. Stockton professor of international law and chair of the Stockton Center for International Law at the U.S. Naval War College and John Harvey Gregory lecturer on world ...

Turkey’s Cataclysm, 2013–2017 Amidst the violence that engulfed the region, it is easy to forget just how much turmoil Turkey experienced. All of what follows happened in Turkey during the five years ...

Canada and U.S. Territorial Expansion The history of U.S. northward expansionism goes back all the way to the Revolutionary War, but it would be wrong to suggest that U.S. policymakers have ...

Yet while an invasion is the most consequential scenario, we do not think it is the most probable, and treating it as if it is comes at the cost of distraction from the short- and near-term challenges ...

On the other end of the spectrum, those that question human control as a solution to potential problems with AI often do so by pointing to the speed or complexity of data processing that justifies the ...

The Peace Dividend Looking back at the defense cuts of the early 1990s with the benefit of hindsight is easy to do, but we should appreciate that the decisions made were rational in the short term ...