China’s battery dominance grew from local industrial clusters, vertically integrated firms, and manufacturing scale—not subsidies alone—offering lessons for global competitors.
A brilliant new book concludes that Hitler’s seizure of power in 1933 was far from inevitable—and aided by the connivance of German elites who underestimated him at every turn.
Congress’ reliance on stopgap funding may put the budding revival of the US military defense base and innovation on hold.
The Iran war has run a live audit of the American arsenal. The example of Interwar Britain shows how little time there is to change course. In August 1919, the British Cabinet instructed its defense ...
Despite—or, paradoxically, because of—the high demands imposed by the Ukraine conflict, a range of Russian arms manufacturers have laid off workers and curbed production output. It is axiomatic that ...
Commercial success in quantum computing will depend as much on engineers, technicians, and skilled trades as on scientific breakthroughs. Quantum systems moving toward commercial reality suffer from ...
In the last decade, the use of migration flows to extract diplomatic concessions has become just another tool of statecraft.
A recent biography of Mao Zedong’s loyal hand showcases the pragmatic tradition of Chinese statecraft for Western observers of China.
The Iran and Ukraine wars are no longer parallel shocks. They now compound one another, with consequences for refining, the economy, and American politics. The reading was wrong. The system that ...
Unsurprisingly, Russia tops the list of Europe’s strongest air forces—but the war in Ukraine has shown clearly the ...
The Ford outperforms the Fujian by almost every metric—but American complacency would be a mistake. China’s Type 003 Fujian aircraft carrier represents Beijing’s biggest leap yet in naval aviation, ...