In 2025, Jennifer Kavanaugh and Christopher McCallion wrote, “Armed Neutrality for Ukraine Is NATO’s Least Poor Option,” ...

For all the warnings about an increasingly capable Chinese military, this may very well be an awkward moment for Beijing to ...

Every alliance contains a struggle over who gets to decide what the alliance is for. The unusual thing about the Mecca Alliance, formally known as the “Mecca Joint Defence Agreement,” is that all ...

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For decades, the United States’ nuclear weapons enterprise has wrestled with an institutional paradox. On one hand is the ...

Major powers are increasingly trying to shut out their rivals. Russia invaded Ukraine in part to prevent the latter’s further ...

This year’s U.N. General Assembly officially opened on Tuesday, Sept. 8. The annual gathering gives diplomats and leaders a ...

If there is a revolution brewing in the automation of white-collar work, you wouldn’t know it at the Pentagon. Here, the typical action officers, staff who tackle the daily work of the bureaucracy, ...

For eight years I helped decide whether American counter-terrorism money was working. As a programs advisor in the State Department’s Bureau of ...

In 2019, Steve Fetter wrote “A Cheaper Nuclear Sponge,” in which he argued that building a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) was unnecessary for strengthening U.S. land-based deterrence.