Indo-Pacific
Power balances, maritime competition, deterrence, and flashpoints across the Indo-Pacific.
143 Dispatches
Did China Help Pakistan Fight India in the 2025 Conflict?
India accuses China of feeding live intelligence to Pakistan in the 2025 clash. What the allegations mean for a hardening Beijing-New Delhi rivalry.
The Firebombing of Tokyo: The Deadliest Air Raid in History
How Operation Meetinghouse killed more than the atomic bombs combined, and why the firestorm that flattened a quarter of Tokyo was nearly forgotten.
How a Harris Presidency Would Reshape the World's Conflicts
A defense analysis of how a Kamala Harris administration might handle Taiwan, Gaza, Ukraine, and Sudan, drawing on her record and expert assessment.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: War Crime or Necessary Evil?
An objective look at both sides of the debate over the only wartime use of nuclear weapons, from the destruction of two cities to the invasion that never came.
The Iran Ceasefire: What We Know and What We Don't
A two-week ceasefire pauses the Iran war as competing US and Iranian peace plans, immense pressure, and an open question over whether it holds.
The Iran Ceasefire: What We Know and What We Don't
Inside the two-week Iran ceasefire over the Strait of Hormuz, the rival US and Iranian peace plans, the pressures that forced both sides to the table, and whether it can hold.
Iran War Update: 'Love Taps,' Project Freedom, and a Secret Israeli Base in Iraq
A fragile Iran ceasefire is tested by fresh strikes, a stalled MOU, a secret Israeli base in Iraq, and China's quiet push for peace ahead of a Trump-Xi summit.
Is the U.S. Military Losing Its Edge? What the War With Iran Exposed
The war with Iran exposed drone vulnerabilities, interceptor shortages, and eroding alliances behind America's trillion-dollar military machine.
Joe Biden's Foreign Policy Legacy: The Tarnished Record of America's 46th President
A region-by-region assessment of Joe Biden's foreign policy, from the Afghanistan withdrawal and Ukraine to the Middle East, China, Haiti, and Africa.
How Kazakhstan Is Hedging Against a Russian Invasion
Sharing the world's longest border with Russia and lacking a nuclear umbrella, Kazakhstan is using a multi-vector foreign policy to keep the bear at bay.
Killswitch Disengage: Why America's Allies Are Abandoning U.S. Weapons
Why Canada, Europe, and East Asian allies are walking away from American weapons—from F-35 kill-switch fears to a collapse of trust in Washington.
The Korean War: The Proxy War That Nearly Sparked World War III
How the 1950–1953 Korean War almost became the world's first nuclear war, from Kim Il-Sung's invasion to MacArthur's atomic gamble and Truman's refusal.