At the end of this month, U.S. President Donald Trump is scheduled to visit China for a major summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, the first of what may be as many as four meetings between the two ...

The Islamic Republic, knowing that this fight is existential, retaliated quickly with deadly missile and drone attacks on Israel, U.S. bases in the Middle East, and targets in Gulf states and beyond.

The military campaign that Israel and the United States launched last Saturday against Iran may be a joint operation. But the two countries’ experiences of the war—and its leaders’ strategic ...

Yet the chances that Trump will launch a Maduro-style military mission in Cuba remain low. After his Venezuela operation, undertaking a similar ouster would no longer have the advantage of surprise, ...

China is watching carefully as the United States and Israel bombard Iran. Beijing is, after all, Tehran’s most important partner. The two countries grew close over shared history and goals: both trace ...

Working in concert with the Israel Defense Forces, the U.S. military undertook strikes that first targeted the regime leadership, killing Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and others, and then expanded to a ...

In this prodigiously researched epic, Torigian details the life of Xi Zhongxun—the father of China’s current leader, Xi Jinping—to explain the history of the Chinese Communist Party. Along the way, ...

Since the dawn of the nuclear age, policymakers and strategists have tried to prevent a country from deploying nuclear weapons by mistake. But the potential for accidents remains as high as it was ...

Indeed, the United States has not fought an adversary in a fully combined manner—dividing targets and working equally within a shared operational construct—since World War II. With the opening of this ...

Israel promptly responded by killing Hezbollah’s intelligence chief and bombing Hezbollah positions in Lebanon. On Tuesday, Israel even sent more ground forces into southern Lebanon and warned 80 ...

India has endured a perplexing year in its diplomacy. After decades of growing closer to Washington, New Delhi saw its strategic calculus scrambled by the pressure tactics of the Trump administration, ...

The bitter reality, however, is that the remnants of the regime are well armed and well entrenched. For years, they have been preparing for a scenario just like the one today. After decades of brutal ...