Al-Shabaab’s territorial gains come as Somalia is entering a period of profound political and institutional transition. With elections looming and international donor support wavering, the state is ...

The differences in how the law of targeting applies on land and at sea are relatively unknown, as the principles of distinction and proportionality are domain-specific. U.S. forces are not well ...

Pillar II’s early promise was quick wins — distinct from the long horizon of the submarine project — but it seems the goal posts have been moved. Now, the 2027 rotational deployments of U.K. and U.S.

The September 1846 Battle of Monterrey, long a hallmark of Zachary Taylor’s northern campaign, was a U.S. victory of strategy, operations, and tactics. Remembered in the historical literature as a ...

While serving on the National Security Council staff in the Biden administration, I was tasked with strengthening the resilience of U.S. critical infrastructure, namely its reliance on GPS for ...

On March 18, the defense ministers of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland recommended the withdrawal of their states from the Ottawa Convention, which bans anti-personnel landmines. It is unclear ...

Ongoing debates over how China’s military would counter U.S. intervention often focus on precision strikes against U.S. forces in the Western Pacific. Indeed, some wargames assume that the People’s ...

Although Western attention has focused on the rapid expansion of China’s nuclear and conventional warfighting capabilities, one ought to expect equal analysis of China’s biological warfare potential.

A divide in America’s industrial base is at the heart of this challenge. The U.S. defense industrial base is split between traditional original equipment manufacturers (or the “primes”) and emerging ...

“Innovation adoption is a contact sport.” As the chief technology officer of the Department of the Navy, Justin Fanelli is one of the leaders responsible for ensuring warfighters have access to ...

In her 2020 article, “Australia-India Naval Cooperation and the Islands of the Indo-Pacific,” Darshana Baruah argued that a maritime partnership between Australia and India centered around the remote ...

The Trump administration is making changes to U.S. policy toward Africa. These changes — including dissolving the U.S. Agency for International Development and its programs in Africa — have direct and ...