In February 2026, the United States and Israel initiated a war in the Middle East against Iran. Since then, the warring sides ...

This is the first article in a new occasional series featuring battles that just didn’t matter, that looked important in isolation but had ...

The most successful deterrent threats leave no evidence behind. No missiles fly. No networks go down. No troops cross borders ...

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On June 22, the United States announced that it had signed a nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia. This type of ...

Water disputes can directly drive conflict, but more often, water scarcity acts as a catalyst — one that, combined with other ...

Editor’s note: This is the sixth article in a limited series celebrating American defense technologies born from wartime and their effects on broader national security, politics, and society. This ...

In the Pacific War, the U.S. Navy’s underwater demolition teams prepared the way for U.S. and allied amphibious landings on ...

In the speech announcing his invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin took only minutes to arrive at the original ...