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In becoming a majority shareholder of MP Materials, the Trump administration demonstrated the salutary thought that no radical free-market orthodoxy should prevent the United States from taking ...

We have left behind the hyperglobalisation of the 1990s, and since 2006 moved into the age of economic warfare, according to Edward Fishman in his book Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of ...

Empowering Small and Medium Shipyards Through Strategic Reform As the United States faces mounting global maritime challenges, from contested sea lanes to aging fleets, the need to expand and ...

Moscow Fights, Beijing Gains In the past several months, the Trump administration has leaned hard on the Kremlin, seeking to force a breakthrough toward a durable peace in Ukraine. The White House ...

Our Security in the Pacific Depends on It September 15 marks the fourth anniversary of the Australia-United Kingdom-United States (AUKUS) partnership established to develop an Australian nuclear ...

Poland's new President, Karol Nawrocki, is meeting at the White House with President Donald Trump next week. Poland has extremely tense borders with Russia and Ukraine. The NATO ally gave Ukraine ...

Google's revelation that China mounted a cyber-espionage campaign against Southeast Asian diplomats should surprise no one. State-sponsored cyber operations are a permanent feature of the ...

Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, numerous commentators have drawn comparisons to the First World War. While many observers of today's "modern, drone-saturated, battlefield" dismiss ...

I have provided unsolicited advice to the past two Chiefs of Naval Operations (CNOs), and they were both well aware of what I thought the Navy needed. The following are my current recommendations for ...

Mutual assured destruction or MAD is not an American doctrine or military strategy. Those who believe MAD is how America deters nuclear armed adversaries assume that any use of nuclear weapons ...