Since the end of World War II, the countries of western Europe have relied on the United States for their security. Thus safeguarded, these countries were left free to pursue economic integration ...

Seventeen years ago, while serving as an Iran desk officer in the U.S. State Department, I asked a more veteran colleague about the latest inflammatory statement by Mahmood Ahmadinejad, then the ...

He is using executive power aggressively to undo any U.S. regulations that restrain corporate behavior. But some leaders of major market economies are taking the chance offered by the retreat from ESG ...

Yet when the United States and Israel launched an attack on Iran in late February—the second in just eight months, following last summer’s 12-day war—Russia mostly stood idly by. Putin called the ...

Meanwhile in Japan, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi insists that China, not the United States, is the most disruptive threat that countries face. Takaichi’s landslide victory in a snap election in ...

The era of autonomous warfare will not announce itself with robotic armies marching across battlefields. Instead, it is already emerging, quietly and inexorably, in the skies and fields of eastern ...

Israel and the United States’ targeted assassination of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei—and subsequent strikes on a gathering of the Islamic Republic’s Assembly of Experts—turned longstanding ...

It took the United States and its allies 51 days to clear 907 mines off the Kuwaiti coast in 1991—and that was after the Gulf War was over and with the advantage of minefield maps provided by the ...

It was, Anthropic declared, “the first documented case of a large-scale cyberattack executed without substantial human intervention.” This assault on U.S. infrastructure was innovative in its use of ...

In 1988, the military historian James Stokesbury observed that democracies are best at fighting either little wars, which are reserved for “professionals” and don’t involve ordinary citizens, or ...

Government officials are united behind the retaliatory campaign Iran is now carrying out against the United States and its partners, and the IRGC remains functional. The Islamic Republic is still very ...

The great irony, however, is that the LUCAS drone is based on Iran’s own low-cost one-way attack drone, the Shahed-136. In May 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump publicly praised the Iranian drones as ...