Indo-Pacific
Power balances, maritime competition, deterrence, and flashpoints across the Indo-Pacific.
143 Dispatches
The Korean War: The Proxy War That Nearly Sparked World War III
How the 1950 invasion of South Korea became the Cold War's first proxy war and how close General MacArthur came to triggering a nuclear conflict.
The Korean War: The Proxy Conflict That Nearly Sparked World War III
How the 1950 invasion of South Korea became a Cold War flashpoint, and how MacArthur's nuclear plan nearly turned the Forgotten War into the world's first atomic war.
Liberation of the Philippines: The End of Brutal Japanese Occupation
How Japan seized the Philippines in 1941, the vast Filipino guerilla resistance, and the Allied campaign that liberated the islands by 1945.
Mogadishu Rising: Somalia's New Alliances and the Proxy War Taking Shape
Somalia's federal government is consolidating power through new foreign alliances, drawing the Horn of Africa into a fast-heating regional proxy conflict.
A New Myanmar Is Emerging: How a Stalemated Civil War Became a Victory for Beijing
After five years of war, Myanmar's rebellion is fracturing, the Tatmadaw is regaining ground, and the only real winner sits across the border in China.
The Myanmar Civil War: The War of a Hundred Armies
How a 2021 coup ignited the world's most fragmented conflict, where a hundred-plus rebel armies are dismantling Myanmar's military regime piece by piece.
Myanmar's Unwinnable Civil War: Stalemate, Drones, and China's Long Game
After five years of war, Myanmar's junta cannot reconquer the country and the rebels cannot topple it. Here is why the conflict has become unwinnable.
North Korea's Dead Hand: How Pyongyang Is Trying to Trump-Proof Its Regime
North Korea amended its constitution to launch its nuclear forces automatically if Kim Jong Un is killed. What a "dead hand" clause means for war on the peninsula.
Inside North Korea's Military Modernization: How the KPA Quietly Rebuilt Itself
A WarFronts analysis of how Kim Jong Un transformed the Korean People's Army with new tanks, missiles, drones, cyber units, and a growing nuclear arsenal.
Pakistan's Forever War with Afghanistan Settles Into a Grinding Stalemate
Two months into Pakistan's air war on the Afghan Taliban, the bombing has produced no concessions, drones keep crossing the border, and Islamabad's recovery is unraveling.
Pakistan Besieged: How the Balochistan Insurgency and Afghan War Are Converging at Once
Pakistan faces a hardened Baloch insurgency, an undeclared war with Afghanistan, the TTP, and IMF dependency—all at the same time, with no clean exit.
Poland Wants to Go Nuclear: How a Single Sentence Signaled a New Age of Proliferation
Donald Tusk's nuclear remark to the Sejm, plus rising tension across Taiwan, Syria, and Pakistan's Balochistan, mark a more dangerous global moment.