Every two decades or so, a new technology upends national security. In the 1940s and 1950s, the atomic and hydrogen bombs established nuclear deterrence. In the 1970s and 1980s, microelectronics led ...

NATO has been in crisis since the moment it was founded. The alliance has weathered more than a dozen severe episodes of disagreement among members over money, strategy, military operations, nuclear ...

And it has cleverly adapted toward an attrition strategy that has badly strained the U.S. arsenal, threatened civilian infrastructure across the Middle East, and added a new dimension of power ...

Essentially, Orban became a kind of “pet” autocrat of Europe’s mainstream center-right parties. Germany’s Christian Democrats and other EPP parties blocked the EU from sanctioning Orban for his ...

It is instead content to watch yet another U.S. president spend America’s blood, treasure, ambition, and munitions in the region, and yet another U.S. administration subordinate its China policy to ...

Officials have pursued these highly visible projects to impress their superiors and showcase their achievements, but in doing so they often take away resources from less glamorous but more effective ...

Most of these bases were home to Russian strategic heavy bombers—aircraft capable of carrying nuclear weapons. Using Russia’s mobile phone network, Ukrainian operatives remotely launched the drones, ...

As the Group of Seven meets in Évian, France, beginning June 15, French President Emmanuel Macron has pushed to bring about a broad recognition that rising trade imbalances are a global economic ...

When President Donald Trump returned from a trip to the Gulf in May 2025, he trumpeted $2.2 trillion in bilateral deals the United States had signed with Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab ...

President Donald Trump has insisted that he will have the “honor of taking Cuba.” Although the administration has not specified what that might mean, following interventions in Venezuela and Iran over ...

Inspired by the social media–led movements of the Arab Spring, liberal democracies treated Internet freedom as a geopolitical principle to be evangelized rather than a problem to be regulated. Since ...