Recall the image etched in memory: a bulldozer driven by fighters of the self-proclaimed Islamic State smashing through the ...

China didn’t break into America’s telecom networks with futuristic cyber weapons — it walked through unlocked doors. Washington often frames the cyber ...

In 432 B.C.E., a year before the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, the Megarians received an unusual decree from the ...

In late December 2025, forces backed by the United Arab Emirates swept across six governorates in southern Yemen and seized ...

Tensions between India and Pakistan — two countries that President Donald Trump claimed had been fighting for 1,500 years — ...

Moscow’s “Oreshnik” strike on January 9, 2026 is best understood as strategic signaling designed to shape what NATO will and will not do. Russia’s use of ...

As Iran confronts the aftermath of mass state violence and braces for the possibility of U.S. strikes, debate over the country’s future has intensified.

TikTok has quietly become one of the most influential platforms in the contemporary information environment, not because it ...

David Deptula sat down with Patrick McSpadden in the War on the Rocks studio for a wide-ranging conversation. Deptula ...

President Donald Trump’s return to the White House has revived a familiar anxiety across Europe and Taiwan: How reliable is the United States when its ...

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

In 2021, a single explosion in Minden, Louisiana, sent shockwaves across the U.S. defense industrial base. For nearly two ...