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Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Mark R. Alvarez/U.S. Navy via Getty Images
National Archive/Newsmakers
National Archive/Newsmakers

Strategic Error

When the big picture misses the point.

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Quique Kierszenbaum/Getty Images

This Is Not a Test

Are missile defenses ready if Iran responds to an Israeli strike?

SEZAYI ERKEN/AFP/Getty Images
SEZAYI ERKEN/AFP/Getty Images

The Next Proxy War

How the United States can use the Syrian civil war to prepare the region -- for Iran.

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PETER PARKS/AFP/GettyImages

Salami Slicing in the South China Sea

China's slow, patient approach to dominating Asia.

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Junko Kimura/Getty Images

This Week at War: If You Build Up, Who Will Come?

The Pentagon may not have the resources to deter Iran and pivot to Asia at the same time.

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U.S. Navy/Getty Images

This Week at War: Size Matters

Why the Pentagon should be thinking bigger (literally).

A Majeed/AFP/GettyImages
A Majeed/AFP/GettyImages

This Week at War: The Next Afghan War

Could there be a hot war between Afghanistan and Pakistan?

ADEK BERRY/AFP/GettyImages
ADEK BERRY/AFP/GettyImages
KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP/GettyImages
KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP/GettyImages

This Week at War: A Leaner, Cleaner Russian Army

Everyone agrees that Russia's military needs reform. But making it happen won't be easy.

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Brandon Wade/Getty Images for NASCAR

This Week at War: The Deepest Cut

The Pentagon may have way less money to work with than it thinks.

RAJESH JANTILAL/GettyImages
RAJESH JANTILAL/GettyImages

This Week at War: An Arms Race America Can’t Win

The United States has no chance in ship-for-ship showdown with China. Luckily, it shouldn't have to have one.

JOSEPH EID/AFP/GettyImages
JOSEPH EID/AFP/GettyImages

This Week At War: Enough Talk, Obama

Failures in Syria and Iran show the limits of diplomatic negotiation.

Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Charles Oki/U.S. Navy via Getty Images
Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Charles Oki/U.S. Navy via Getty Images

This Week at War: Does the U.S. Need More Aircraft Carriers?

The Pentagon sure wants more $15 billion boats, but it may have to look for other options. 

KHALIL MAZRAAWI/AFP/GettyImages
KHALIL MAZRAAWI/AFP/GettyImages
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Inside the U.S.-China Tech War

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Over the last few years, the United States has moved to limit China’s technological rise. U.S.-led sanctions have imposed unprecedented limits on Beijing’s access to advanced computing c...Show more

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 24: U.S. President Joe Biden (R) and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi participate in a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on September 24, 2021 in Washington, DC. President Biden is hosting a Quad Leaders Summit later today with Prime Minister Modi, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Japanese Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide. (Photo by Sarahbeth Maney-Pool/Getty Images)
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Is America Making a Bad Bet on India?

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For decades, the U.S. foreign-policy establishment has made the assumption that India could serve as a partner as the United States jostles with China for power in the Indo-Pacific region. B...Show more

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Last weekend, spy chiefs and defense officials from around the world descended on Singapore to attend the Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia’s biggest annual security conference. The U.S. delegatio...Show more

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