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Two weeks after Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in March 2022, the Russian TV Channel One editor Marina Ovsyannikova burst onto the set of...
Tehran’s Strategy to Drive America Out of the Middle East
What Kyiv Needs to Survive
When will the war in Iran end? American officials claim that the answer is soon. “I think the war is going to end immediately after the [November]...
Over the last half millennium, societies around the globe competed to divide up the world’s land. Nearly every square inch of soil outside...
Across Latin America and the Caribbean, voters worried about rising crime have elected populists who promise to impose order and security in their...
What Kyiv Needs to Survive
America and Its Allies Must Scale Together for a New Era of War
Japan, a country constitutionally bound to pacifism since World War II, is investing in its defense and contributing to regional security in ways that...
America and Its Allies Must Scale Together for a New Era of War
When the United States began bombing Iran, it expected to quickly overwhelm the country’s government. In the war’s first 24 hours, American and...
Use Today’s Calm to Prepare for the Next Perfect Storm
When the United States began bombing Iran, it expected to quickly overwhelm the country’s government. In the war’s first 24 hours, American and...
Use Today’s Calm to Prepare for the Next Perfect Storm
In 2016, a crack in the ice opened beneath the site of the U.S. Navy’s flagship Arctic exercise several hundred miles north of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska,...
A New Stage in Russia’s Confrontation With Ukraine—and the West
Success in great-power competition requires rigorous and unsentimental net assessment. Yet the American estimation of China has lurched from one...
In 2016, a crack in the ice opened beneath the site of the U.S. Navy’s flagship Arctic exercise several hundred miles north of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska,...
A New Stage in Russia’s Confrontation with Ukraine—and the West
The European economy is falling behind. At the turn of the century, EU labor productivity was on a steady upward trajectory and had reached almost 95...
The European economy is falling behind. At the turn of the century, EU labor productivity was on a steady upward trajectory and had reached almost 95...
A Diplomatic Strategy to End the War
In Syria today, nearly everyone seems to be struggling. People of all classes and backgrounds can barely afford food, rent, utilities—the basics of...
America Is Learning the Wrong Lessons From the Atomic Age
The United Nations, international officials sometimes joke, is always in crisis. Since its inception in 1945, the organization has had to navigate...
The Trump-Xi Summit Gives Washington a Chance to Buy Time
The United Nations, international officials sometimes joke, is always in crisis. Since its inception in 1945, the organization has had to navigate...
The Trump-Xi Summit Gives Washington a Chance to Buy Time
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a stunning indictment of the state of global health security. The epidemic should have...
The U.S. Military Needs to Build Up Its Endurance
For two decades, scholars believed that the main reason Chinese communist rule endured into the twenty-first century—whereas every communist regime...
The Country Is Collapsing Even as Its Regime Survives
The Delusions of Summitry and the Limits of Personalist Diplomacy
How Beijing Will Weaponize Digital Chokepoints
The United States appears ready to pull much of its military from Europe. The Trump administration’s 2025 National Security Strategy, a key policy...
How Beijing Will Weaponize Digital Chokepoints
Pressure and Pain Won’t Sap Russia’s Resolve in Ukraine
Slow and Steady Wins the Negotiation
The Houthis’ Bold Advance Has Transformed the Middle East’s Wars
9/11 and the Unraveling of American Democracy
Industrial policy is back in fashion in the United States. As fragile global supply chains and a weakened industrial base present growing economic and...
Industrial policy is back in fashion in the United States. As fragile global supply chains and a weakened industrial base present growing economic and...
Can Moscow Adjust Its Foreign Policy for a Changing World?
Call it a city on four legsheading for murder. ...New York is a womanholding, according to history,a rag called liberty with one handand strangling...
My first mission as a paramilitary officer with the CIA was against a top-ten al Qaeda target. It was the autumn of 2009, and I had been deployed in...
On September 11, 2001, al Qaeda carried out the deadliest foreign terrorist attack the United States had ever experienced. To Osama bin Laden and the...
Terrorists Sometimes Defeat Themselves
When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Western countries responded with aggressive economic restrictions, freezing Russia’s official foreign exchange...
Terrorists Sometimes Defeat Themselves
Twenty-five years ago, members of the jihadi group al-Qaeda hijacked four American airplanes, flying two of them into the World Trade Center towers in...