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After the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran began, the Chinese air force stopped flying around Taiwan--and the reason isn't at all clear. Observers have offered various possibilities, but none seems ...

What are the successes of the Department of War (DOW) since President Trump began his second term? And what things are not going so well and why. The Good News In 3 major operations in a span of ...

Paul Heer's recent plea that sovereignty over Taiwan cannot remain "undetermined" revives an important and longneglected question in U.S. policy: "Does China have a sovereign right to ...

The Pentagon's AI Adoption Problem Is Institutional, Not Technical The Department of Defense finally has the technology to compress decision cycles from hours to seconds. What it lacks is the ...

Washington Must Decide What Kind of Leader It Wants To Be For eight decades following the close of World War II, America's postwar architecture of alliances, institutions, and economic leadership ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents human civilization with many spectacular benefits as well as the potential for significant dangers. AI can increase productivity, efficiency, creativity and ...

Introduction If the front stalls or, even more so, begins to retreat, Putin's legitimacy starts to erode. He has relied not on constitutional legitimacy but on the legitimacy of a wartime leader ...

The Russia-Iran relationship was never a true alliance - but the attack still stings Moscow. Moscow will be watching the evolving conflict in Iran with dismay and chagrin. Russia's ties with Iran ...

With Moscow's backing and a growing nuclear arsenal,Pyongyang thinks it can afford to wait out Washington and Seoul. Chairman Kim Jong-un is determined to strengthen North Korea's nuclear ...

The administration changed policy. The personnel bureaucracy quietly refused to follow. The administration won the policy war. The bureaucracy won the peace--and it is still winning. Clear ...