The U.S. had to expend 70 or more Patriots and Thaads to blunt an attack on Jordan.

Thousands of sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln have reportedly faced food shortages and broken plumbing, with some considering jumping overboard.

H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Roundtable Review 17-52 Paul D. Miller, Choosing Defeat: The Twenty-Year Saga of How America Lost Afghanistan. Cambridge University Press…

A corporate fad of “tokenmaxxing” on artificial intelligence technology is hitting its limits as workplaces throwing AI at everything are seeing the costs rise without a similar spike in productivity.

The U.S. held off on a major military campaign that could have lasted two weeks, officials said.

The yearslong effort to groom the former Iranian president as an intelligence asset culminated in a dramatic effort to take him to an Israeli safe house in the early days of the war. But the plan fell...

U.S. military power repeatedly fails politically because American strategy ignores causation, negotiation, and realism.

U.S. bases and equipment across the Middle East came under attack — including from an Iranian F-5, despite American air defenses — and repairs could cost billions of dollars.

A military name change signals a broader strategic and diplomatic shift.

America’s military is like Germany’s in the twentieth century—a tactically and operationally brilliant force that cannot think strategically.

U.S. military power repeatedly fails politically because American strategy ignores causation, negotiation, and realism.

Western airpower debates are increasingly driven by grim math. Analysts tally missile inventories, strike ranges, and sortie-generation capacity against a

Technical wizardry used to combat illegal immigration also funnels the personal data and whereabouts of U.S. citizens to federal agents.

Federal debt exceeding the size of the economy is a potent symbol of the gathering fiscal stresses on the U.S.

The U.S.-Israeli attack fast-tracked the ascent of hard-liners and apocalyptic religious followers, raising doubts about a lasting peace.

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In the Shia vision of history, born of centuries of oppression and marginality, a time comes when the mighty are humbled; the lowly who kept the faith rise up and inherit the earth free from oppressor...

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The Iranian regime has shut down the Strait of Hormuz, destabilizing global markets and leaving the U.S. with no good options.

The Saudis and Emiratis fear a deal that leaves the region less stable, and they have indicated support for an escalated campaign to force concessions from Tehran.

Congress and the Pentagon need to revitalize the U.S. defense industry base—and they need to act fast.

The effort has taken on new urgency nearly three weeks into the war with Iran, as oil prices soar above $100 a barrel.

Less than a month after the repeal of Caesar Act sanctions, Syria’s transitional president Ahmad al Sharaa launched an offensive against the Kurdish-led

The widening war in Iran is exposing big gaps at the State Department, especially in the bureau that handles the Middle East.

President Trump made a reference to Pearl Harbor in front of the Japanese leader, when asked why he didn’t notify allies about the U.S.’s plan to attack Iran. “You don't want to signal too much. We we...