Welcome to The Adversarial. Every other week, we’ll provide you with expert analysis on America’s greatest challengers: China ...

In 2024, Tom Johansmeyer wrote “Why Natural Catastrophes Will Always Be Worse than Cyber Catastrophes,” where he laid to rest ...

The United States lost the war against a weapon that almost everyone knows by its acronym: the IED or improvised explosive ...

Can America deter China if its warships are stuck in port? Probably not. And the problem is made worse by chronic ...

As the United States continues to increase its military presence in the Caribbean and to strike boats that the government ...

There are plenty of elements to praise in Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s acquisition transformation announcement last ...

If past is prologue, the Pentagon will soon release its annual report on Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China.

Popular culture often distorts autonomy into science fiction caricatures. This framing obscures the real challenges and opportunities facing the U.S. military: autonomy as a layered, incremental ...

A decade into the effort to concretely integrate information warfare into its operations, the Marine Corps appears to be in ...

Bletchley Park was more than a place — it was a method. During World War II, the United Kingdom combined science, engineering, operations, and alliance management into a unified codebreaking system ...

The topics covered in this article were discussed further in a recent episode of the War on the Rocks podcast with Gen. (ret.) Brown, Jr.