This is part of a new series of essays entitled “Battle Studies,” which seeks, through the study of military history, to ...

Joint Sword exercises, and more recent Strait Thunder-2025A exercise, awakened the public psyche to the reality that the ...

I have come to talk to you about Europe. ‘Again,’ some might exclaim.” These were the words with which French President ...

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 ...

March 16, 1968, is one of the darkest days in U.S. military history. On that day, the soldiers of C Company, 1st Battalion, ...

From Elon Musk to Sen. Bernie Sanders, there is widespread agreement that the Department of Defense is way too slow in how it ...

Welcome to The Adversarial. Every other week, we’ll provide you with expert analysis on America’s greatest challengers: China ...

How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century (PublicAffairs, 2024). Visit the home of any ...

Dr. Janko Šćepanović of the Shanghai International Studies University (SISU) wrote “The Sheriff and the Banker: Russia and ...

The Pentagon is claiming to make room for small businesses, but in practice it’s reinforcing a new class of giants, and ...

Today, we are witnessing another military revolution, driven not by muskets but by machines. First-person view drones are changing the calculus of battle, placing surveillance and precision strikes in ...

In AD 9, three Roman legions suffered a massacre in a region of Germania undergoing pacification. In the years that followed several attempts were made to capture or kill the German mastermind, ...