The May 2025 conflict demonstrated that limited war under the nuclear shadow is now a practical reality rather than a ...

Too often, discussions of how to conventionally deter Chinese or Russian aggression occur in the absence of any thinking about whether a stated deterrence strategy is feasible if a war were to break ...

Pakistan, June 7 -- After twenty-eight years of the nuclear tests at Chagai, the strategic environment in South Asia has ...

When states begin interpreting geopolitics as divine destiny, the Middle East enters a far darker and far more unpredictable ...

Current and aspiring nuclear great powers (the United States, Russia, and China), together with other comparatively small nuclear weapons states (either declared or widely acknowledged as such), are ...

The Air Force has elected to tackle this problem by implementing an operational concept called Agile Combat Employment. This calls for dispersing aircraft across a constellation of small bases ...

Since first outlining the concept of the third offset strategy, Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work has been making the rounds to stress the initiative is not merely about technology. He's described the ...

At the same time, the Trump administration has sought to reassure allies that its commitment to Europe’s defense remains undiminished, pledging to sustain the nuclear umbrella over NATO. This ...

In 2021 alone, the United States and its armed forces were humbled by cyberattacks, watched their overmatch at the cutting-edge of conventional weaponry erode regarding China, and were crippled by a ...

The twenty-first century will challenge the concept of deterrence in new ways. Some are already apparent. There are at least nine important components of the new metaverse for deterrence (or ...

Some of the 220 Chinese vessels that showed up at Whitsun Reef are seen moored March 7, 2021. The Philippine government expressed concern after spotting the fishing vessels it believed were crewed by ...

Pakistan was blinded by our electronic and air warfare, says Gen. Anil Chauhan, detailing the precision strikes and ...