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Mike Kofman and Ryan brought out the mics to discuss the pressing issues in the war between Ukraine and Russia. They focused ...

Lee Jae-myung — the Democratic Party’s candidate — won South Korea’s presidential elections. He took office after several months of ...

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

Yet while an invasion is the most consequential scenario, we do not think it is the most probable, and treating it as if it is comes at the cost of distraction from the short- and near-term challenges ...

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 ...

A Broken Clan Uprising Al-Shabaab’s resurgence would have seemed unlikely a year or two ago. In mid-2022, an uprising against al-Shabaab by the Macawiisley — a clan-based armed group — backed by the ...

Europe’s Transformation in Contact Command and control is not a single piece of technology. It is a complex system that spans from an organization’s structure and processes to the networks, software, ...

The Peace Dividend Looking back at the defense cuts of the early 1990s with the benefit of hindsight is easy to do, but we should appreciate that the decisions made were rational in the short term ...

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 ...

David Johnson August 15, 2022 Commentary Ending the Ideology of the Offense, Part I David Johnson August 15, 2022 We have already stated what defense is — simply the more effective form of war: a ...

Potential Theories of Victory Drawing from research on strategy and coercion, we identify five potential military theories of victory that are universal to all countries and all conflicts. The first ...