And Turkey’s realignment is not just talk. Over the past few years, Ankara has been distancing itself from Moscow by reducing its dependence on Russian energy and pruning the two countries’ economic ...

A new front has opened in the U.S.-China competition in artificial intelligence: open-weight, local AI models. Until recently, the most capable AI models were too big and too costly to run anywhere ...

This customary rule, recognized only by the colonial powers, permitted the strongest naval and commercial fleets to dominate the maritime commons and build global empires while assuring other states ...

The second point of emerging consensus is that a fundamental remaking of that order has become essential. The American role in preserving the old order had become counterproductive and unsustainable, ...

A few weeks later, the president told a business forum that after Iran, Cuba “is next.” Already, the United States has imposed a near-total oil blockade of the country, plunging much of it into ...

But U.S. leaders have also frequently cast intervention as something the local population wants, as Vice President Dick Cheney famously did in 2003, when he predicted that U.S. troops would be greeted ...

The Trump administration’s motivations for going to war in Iran remain in question. But amid all the debates over the state of the Iranian nuclear program and the condition of the regime, one crucial ...

China today faces an imposing list of challenges that it needs to assess and address. Economic growth is slowing, the population is aging, the financial system is under stress, and other countries ...

The past year has also illustrated that the American military remains highly capable of carrying out complex, targeted operations. But the Iran war shows that the U.S. military needs to be ready for ...

Eighteen months into his second U.S. presidential term, it may appear that Donald Trump has permanently altered his country’s relationships with its transatlantic allies. His rhetoric toward partners ...

On May 30, Israeli and Lebanese military delegations met at the Pentagon to prepare for a fourth round of diplomatic negotiations intended to end the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, the Lebanon ...