Japan isn’t allowed to have aircraft carriers—so they built them anyway. Disguised as “helicopter destroyers,” the Izumo-class ships reveal a clever workaround of constitutional limits, global ...

That is how McGeorge Bundy, President John F. Kennedy’s national security adviser, described the Anglo-American alliance. The “Special Relationship,” the exceptionally close collaboration forged durin ...

U.S. calls for clearer commitments on Taiwan underscore the growing pressure on the Quad, as the Taiwan issue increasingly ...

France’s 2022 version of the report mentioned China’s military expansion as a threat to the “status quo” in the Strait, while ...

There is a proposal that Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and the Philippines should be considered as a single theater of war.

Recent Kyiv-Tokyo agreements show that the countries' partnership is not a one-time act of support, but a steady formation of a strategic alliance across many sectors.

In the 19th-century Concert of Europe, the great powers – Britain, France, Austria, Prussia and Russia – collectively managed European politics, balancing power to maintain stability. Their influence ...

UN eyes Red Sea threats, Trump pushes Gaza talks, Russia advances in Ukraine—here's your SOFREP Morning Brief for Wednesday, July 16, 2025.

The world depends on Taiwan’s semiconductors, but Taiwan’s survival must depend on more than just faith in external intervention.

Japan's defence ministry plans to acquire six shipborne small UAVs in fiscal year 2025 as part of a broader strategy to ...

US' policy of ambiguity towards Taiwan may have worked so far, but with the world order shifting and China sending ominous ...

The Asia-Indo-Pacific is no longer a distant geopolitical theater. It is the central arena of strategic competition, ...