On the afternoon of May 11, 2024, two men arrived at a modest hotel in Paris. One of them, identifying himself as Mircho ...

In 2024, Tom Johansmeyer wrote “Why Natural Catastrophes Will Always Be Worse than Cyber Catastrophes,” where he laid to rest ...

Can America deter China if its warships are stuck in port? Probably not. And the problem is made worse by chronic ...

As the United States continues to increase its military presence in the Caribbean and to strike boats that the government ...

There are plenty of elements to praise in Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s acquisition transformation announcement last ...

I served 20 years in the Army and today is the first Veterans Day since joining the War on the Rocks team last year. We ...

If past is prologue, the Pentagon will soon release its annual report on Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China.

Europe’s populations are readier to fight than they are often credited. The problem isn’t their lack of will, but elite pessimism about it. Publics take their cues from such policies. As Australian ...

U.S. President Donald Trump set high expectations for “Golden Dome.” His executive order directing development of this homeland air and missile defense system lists a broad range of threats: ...

What if Moscow’s most dangerous moves right now aren’t in Europe, but along the Gulf of Guinea? In pursuit of these ambitions, the Kremlin follows a deliberate strategy. Africa Corps’ expanding ...

In 2024 and 2025, I served for six months as an international volunteer on a first-person view attack drone team in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. My team was deployed in the Donbas region, in one of ...

Almost four years on from the launch of the trilateral AUKUS pact, the partners’ Pillar II advanced capabilities effort remains a solution in search of a problem. Led by lofty shared ambitions in a ...