When U.S. President Donald Trump floated the possibility of taking Greenland by force, European leaders reacted with outrage — and then, almost ...

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has purged dozens of senior People’s Liberation Army officers since mid-2023, including two in January, but will this increase ...

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Europe’s most fragile region is not sleepwalking toward war, but it is quietly recalibrating for it. Across the Western ...

The most consequential infrastructure decisions in Panama today are often not made at the locks of the canal, but in ...

Please note, as a matter of house style, War on the Rocks will not use a different name for the U.S. Department of Defense until and unless the ...

John Maynard Keynes once wrote, “The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones”: an apt ...

China’s top military leadership has been shaken by a new round of purges at the highest level, raising urgent questions about ...

Welcome to The Adversarial. Every other week, we’ll provide you with expert analysis on America’s greatest challengers: China ...

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In Jan. 2025, Farzin Zandi wrote, “How Iran Lost Before It Lost: The Roll Back of its Gray Zone Strategy,” where he argued ...

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte might have been the only European in the room who enjoyed President Donald Trump’s lengthy, ...