In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) accepted hard realities and made significant changes with its release of the 2022 Strategic Concept. However,…
U.S. President Joe Biden proposed strategic stability talks with China in November. If held, the discussions will be an important step toward possible nuclear risk reduction. But as the United…
China is modernizing and expanding its nuclear arsenal, consistent with President Xi Jinping’s desire to build Chinese wealth and power. To understand China’s strategy — and how to counter it…
Military machines can increasingly move, search for targets, and even kill without human control. Current autonomous weapons have typically been used for tactical defense, but the future is unclear. Because…
As the Biden administration appears to recommit to a foreign policy based on democracy and human rights, Bahrain offers a stark reminder of the difficulty of pursuing such a policy…
Beijing is making a major investment in hypersonic missiles. China’s military leadership see this technology as an important element of its regional warfighting strategy and possibly its strategic deterrent. China…
Since Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar initiated his effort to take Libya’s capital, Tripoli, by force on April 4, 2019, Libya has remained in a state of full-on civil war.
An Unacceptable Pattern of Harm Twenty years after the UN Security Council first adopted the resolution on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict—and 70 years after the Geneva…
Events in the Middle East have long reverberated through the Caucasus, a region that sits at the crossroads of Europe and the Middle East and borders the Black and Caspian…
In 2013, the United States began a secret operation to train and equip opposition forces fighting against the Assad regime in Syria. Through the CIA, the United States facilitated the…
