In early March 2026, U.S. Central Command confirmed the first U.S. fatalities of the Iran conflict. A drone strike at Port ...
Why is Southeast Asia becoming more vulnerable to nuclear risk even as it remains formally non-nuclear? Southeast Asia’s ...
An alliance is only as credible as the runway it can repair under fire. The Pentagon’s latest National Defense Strategy ...
Is America running out of missiles? The attacks on Iranian forces and leadership have had a devastating impact on the regime, ...
The United States did not enter the war with Iran because it was attacked or was about to be attacked. It seems to have entered after concluding that once ...
The war with Iran has prompted many questions about what comes next. Will the Islamic Republic regime survive? What could ...
Advanced violence is democratizing.  AI, in conjunction with dramatic improvements in robotics, energy production, and ...
To analyze a war accurately, one must apply an analytical framework suited to its actual character. This requirement is ...
No one is thinking if everyone is thinking alike.” Gen. George S. Patton’s quip shows that he not only understood the advantage of audacious combat ...
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The Manhattan Project brought allied scientists to Los Alamos because winning required pooling allied scientific capacity.
As I conclude nearly four decades of military and public service, including as lieutenant governor of Guam, a line from the 1986 Crowded House song “Don’t ...