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Mike Kofman and Ryan brought out the mics to discuss the pressing issues in the war between Ukraine and Russia. They focused ...

Lee Jae-myung — the Democratic Party’s candidate — won South Korea’s presidential elections. He took office after several months of ...

Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s recent visit to three Southeast Asian countries drew widespread headlines — not only for diplomatic pageantry but also for its ...

James Kraska is Charles H. Stockton professor of international law and chair of the Stockton Center for International Law at the U.S. Naval War College and John Harvey Gregory lecturer on world ...

Mitchell G. Klingenberg, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Military History at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. He is the author of “When Americans Marched to ...

What follows from such a shift is far from predetermined. One possibility is that the shock of American disengagement catalyzes greater European unity and strategic coherence. Another is that the loss ...

Whether the United States defines China as a global threat or a predominantly regional one will have pervasive implications for U.S. alliance and deterrence strategy in Europe and the Indo-Pacific.

The Gap Between Ownership and Employment When Marine MQ-9As took off from Kadena Air Base in 2024, it marked a major milestone: For the first time, a Marine-operated long endurance drone supported ...

General-Special Purpose Forces: A Delicately Balanced Middle Ground Service Culture Building on its legacy from the two world wars, the wars in Korea and Vietnam, and a range of smaller but ...

Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of three articles on the U.S. Marine Corps. The first article was published on June 16, 2025, and the second article was published on June 19, 2025.

History helps shed light on the relationship between intelligence, strategy, and clandestine diplomacy. In 1967, Israeli officials approached the White House in search of material support in advance ...