Nick Danforth's journey as author of this column is drawing to a close. Keep an eye out for his forthcoming book, tentatively ...

Julian Spencer-Churchill wrote “Embrace the Arms Race in Asia,” where he argued that an arms race in Asia was a constructive ...

President Donald Trump visited Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates — his first major trip abroad during his ...

Russian forces in Ukraine are suffering casualties at more than 400,000 per year — enough to pack the house at the world’s ...

Within months of the Cuban Missile Crisis, weapons designers at Los Alamos National Laboratory began engineering what would ...

Down in Tampa on the sidelines of SOF Week, Ryan spoke with Lt. Gen. Frank Donovan, vice commander of Special Operations ...

Once more unto the breach, India struck inside Pakistan in response to a terrorist attack. Once more, the two sides escalated ...

Panic wouldn’t help. Anger would make things worse. So, I stared out at the endless fields of northern Nigeria and thought, ...

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Since spring 2022, Russia has been prevented from reinforcing its navy in the Black Sea by a near-antique international convention and some very contemporary Turkish politics. A ceasefire could change ...