The Baltic states are stalwart NATO members today, but their membership was not assured from the moment they restored their ...

One of the Russian military’s most important developments in 2024-2025 was the establishment of the Rubicon Center for ...

The United States enters the second half of the 2020s facing a fundamental question in Africa: Is Washington still seen as a ...

The first serious book to examine what happens when the ancient boundary between war and peace is erased. Once, war was a temporary state of affairs—a violent but brief interlude between times of ...

In the late 1970s, the United States often seemed to be a superpower in decline. Battered by crises and setbacks around the globe, its post–World War II international leadership appeared to be ...

In strategic studies and international relations, grand strategy is a frequently-invoked concept. Yet, despite its popularity, it is not well understood and it has many definitions, some of which are ...

Based on comparative historical analyses of Iran, Jordan, and Kuwait, Sean L. Yom examines the foreign interventions, coalitional choices, and state outcomes that made the political regimes of the ...

Election officials count the ballots for local elections in Seoul, South Korea, June 3, 2026. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji ...

AS: Well, you're coming up because a lot's actually happening in Germany. A lot seems to have been happening in Germany over ...

The idea that an Iranian Shahed drone could strike the US Navy’s nerve center in Bahrain during daylight hours, despite decades of preparedness for such an event, seems absurd to most military ...

When a political movement becomes interwoven into an individual’s self-identity, said individual is unable to criticize that political movement without implicitly criticizing themselves. Conversely, ...

The 12-Day War between Iran and Israel in June 2025 exposed critical weaknesses in the Islamic Republic’s military, strategic, and ideological frameworks, marking a turning point for the regime. The ...