Since 2022, China has conducted numerous military drills and exercises simulating blockades of the island of Taiwan, a democracy of 23 million that sits astride one of the world's maritime chokepoints ...

The United States’ current military staff system, rooted in a 200-year-old Napoleonic model, is too slow to keep up with modern warfare where AI agents operate in milliseconds. To maintain decision ...

Russian military forces have failed to effectively advance along multiple axes in Ukraine, seized limited territory, lost substantial quantities of equipment relative to Ukraine, and suffered ...

On April 2, 2025—a date President Trump proclaimed “Liberation Day”—the administration announced the most sweeping tariff hike since the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, the 1930 law best remembered for ...

Earlier this month, the Senate Armed Services Committee considered the nomination of Elbridge A. Colby to become under secretary for defense policy. Colby led the team that wrote the 2018 National ...

Since late January 2025, a series of attacks have targeted Tesla facilities and vehicles across the United States, prompting federal investigations into possible domestic terrorism. Others have argued ...

Today, the United States leads the world in generative AI. Its frontier labs set the pace in model development, U.S. firms control more than half of the world’s AI accelerators, and U.S. capital ...

President Donald Trump has given Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky an ultimatum: “You either make a deal, or we are out.” He canceled the planned signing ceremony of the bilateral minerals deal, ...

This study examines nuclear dynamics in a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, a war that the authors hope will never occur. What creates the greatest pressure for nuclear weapons use in such a conflict? What ...

If former president Donald Trump wins back the White House, U.S. trading partners are likely to face a barrage of renewed tariff threats. Trump has announced that, if reelected, he will impose a 10–20 ...

In April 2023, fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces spread into a deadly civil war across Sudan. Now, 16 months since the onset of the conflict, extreme ...

In April 2022, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks expressed concern about the “substantial decline” in competition within the U.S. defense industrial base. A February 2022 study by the ...