This is part of a running series of essays by Iskander Rehman, entitled “Applied History,” which seeks, through the study of ...

American auto manufacturers are preparing to shut down production lines. Defense manufacturers may not be far behind. The tit ...

Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s recent visit to three Southeast Asian countries drew widespread headlines — not only for ...

Mike Kofman and Ryan brought out the mics to discuss the pressing issues in the war between Ukraine and Russia. They focused ...

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Lee Jae-myung — the Democratic Party’s candidate — won South Korea’s presidential elections. He took office after several months of ...

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Chris, Melanie, and Zack discuss Carter Malkasian’s recent article on “America’s crisis of deterrence.” They debate whether recent policy failures are a breakdown of deterrence theory or U.S. policy, ...

Nathan Heath is an analyst at National Security Innovations, Inc., where he supports projects for the U.S. Department of Defense. He is also a member of Foreign Policy for America’s 2024 NextGen ...

Within months of the Cuban Missile Crisis, weapons designers at Los Alamos National Laboratory began engineering what would become the longest-serving and most adaptable weapon in America’s nuclear ...

Bremer and Grieco see air denial is an attractive alternative because it would allow the United States and allies to flip the cost exchange ratio in favor of the U.S forces. By eliminating the need to ...

Rosie the Riveter worked in California. One of more than 310,000 women who toiled in the U.S. aircraft industry in 1943, she became emblematic of a defense industrial base that expanded massively to ...