In late December, a new wave of protests broke out in Iran — eventually spreading around the country and across many sectors ...

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Many strategists, myself included, believe that unmanned surface vessels could be part of an approach to help the U.S. Navy ...

President Donald Trump’s return to the White House has revived a familiar anxiety across Europe and Taiwan: How reliable is ...

Thanks to AI, cheating in professional military education is becoming pervasive. Drawing on our perspectives as a uniformed ...

As sea temperatures and geopolitical tensions simultaneously heat up, Greenland’s strategic importance increases. Against ...

Even after Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was captured, U.S. nationals may still be prosecuted under international law ...

In July, the team at EarthTraq, a dual-use space company, received an email suggesting we “go through the Space Force Front ...

It’s early days, but the Trump administration’s approach to a post-President Nicolás Maduro Venezuela is quickly coming into ...

As this article goes to press, security officials in Iran are carefully weighing their options on how to dole out violence to ...

In January 2025, when the Trump administration froze nearly all foreign aid, more than 1,000 emergency communal kitchens in ...