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

Andrea Gilli, PhD, is lecturer at the University of St Andrews, senior advisor at the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense in Italy, and expert mentor at NATO’s Defense Innovation Accelerator of ...

In rethinking America’s approach to airpower, pundits should look to Mahan’s contemporary, the British naval theorist Sir Julian Corbett. Corbett regarded total command of the sea with skepticism, ...

In War on the Rocks, Caitlin Lee recently presented an updated version of the Gulf War paradigm for deterring a Chinese invasion of Taiwan — and argued against our preferred strategy of air denial.

Of course, calling for an end to counterforce targeting requires articulating an alternative. I advocate CMI targeting, which is an acronym I came up with to describe holding C onventional M ilitary ...

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 ...

Over the course of the last 22 years, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey has fought and endured a great deal in order to remain in power. Court challenges, corruption investigations, close ...

David Johnson is a retired Army colonel. He is a principal researcher at the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation and an adjunct scholar at the Modern War Institute at West Point. He is the author ...

Justin Johnson spent over a decade working on defense budgets and policy on Capitol Hill and at the Heritage Foundation before spending four years in a variety of senior positions in the Pentagon from ...

Autonomy in Software and Hardware Makes Readiness Possible It is clear that intelligent systems are changing how militaries fight across the spectrum of conflict. Advances in artificial intelligence, ...

The first explanation focuses on China’s interest in preventing its rivals from taking collective action against it. This so-called “ divide and rule ” strategy holds that Beijing uses combinations of ...