I do not know the origins of the Trump administration’s 28-point peace plan to resolve the Russo-Ukrainian War, but I can ...

On the afternoon of May 11, 2024, two men arrived at a modest hotel in Paris. One of them, identifying himself as Mircho ...

Can America deter China if its warships are stuck in port? Probably not. And the problem is made worse by chronic shipbuilding delays. This means the U.S.

I served 20 years in the Army and today is the first Veterans Day since joining the War on the Rocks team last year. We ...

The House and Senate appropriations committees each approved their own versions of the Fiscal Year 2026 Department of Defense Appropriations Act in July, which means that, as lawmakers return from ...

In 2024 and 2025, I served for six months as an international volunteer on a first-person view attack drone team in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. My team was deployed in the Donbas region, in one of ...

The offensive al-Shabaab launched in late February 2025 marks its most ambitious push in years, reversing government gains and reasserting control in swathes of central and southern Somalia. The rapid ...

Almost four years on from the launch of the trilateral AUKUS pact, the partners’ Pillar II advanced capabilities effort remains a solution in search of a problem. Led by lofty shared ambitions in a ...

The Trump administration is sending shock waves through the development community, diplomatic circles, and financial markets. In doing so, it might have achieved something that, until a short time ago ...

Your adversaries and closest allies might not need nuclear weapons to achieve deterrence — they just need you to believe they could build them at any moment. This strategy, which I detailed in a new ...