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How China Outflanked Western Strategy In the spring of 1940, the French military discovered that its multi-billion-franc investment in the Maginot Line was entirely useless. The concrete fortresses ...

Peace talks continue in name only, as Moscow counts on exhaustion to secure gains it cannot win on the battlefield. Hopes turned out misplaced that Kyiv's long-range drone attacks on Russian energy ...

The PRC's Compute Push Goes Global Executive Summary: The People's Republic of China (PRC) is pushing its domestic computing ecosystem overseas despite U.S. export controls constraining access ...

A modest training centre on paper, but any upgrade would alarm capitals well beyond Southeast Asia. An announcement of a new Chinese-funded military facility in Laos to train local air force pilots ...

He was a WWII fighter pilot. His ashes rested in a polished wooden urn at the front of the little funeral chapel. His life had been full of years, years of success, of joy, of respect, of love of ...

Bogged down militarily in Ukraine, with Russia's economy in a shambles and Ukrainian drones penetrating ever deeper into the heartland and causing popular unrest, President Vladimir Putin's ...

For decades, U.S. forces moved through permissive global lines of communication (LOC), adhering to the "just-in-time" logistics model. Today, that era is over. America's adversaries have ...

The contemporary international security environment is undergoing a period in which democratic states face increasing pressure from authoritarian regimes. These regimes employ military,

Writing in the online journal 1945, Ted Galen Carpenter reminds us that world wars don't start all at once. Carpenter cites reports that Russia is launching drone attacks in Poland and Germany, two ...

Taiwan's arms contracts treat delivery dates as estimates, and Congress should require Washington to account for the major slips. At a defense forum in Taipei in September, Anduril founder Palmer ...