South Korea's president Lee Jae Myung made important trips to China and Japan this month, and met with Xi Jinping and Sanae Takaichi to discuss cooperation and regional developments. What did Lee ...

Demand for munitions is booming. After a record number of munitions expenditures last year in defense of Israel, the counter Houthi campaign in the Red Sea, and support to Ukraine, the Department of ...

How far can—and should—the U.S.–ROK alliance go in 2026? Join The Impossible State podcast for a discussion on the U.S.–ROK alliance. Moderated by Sydney Seiler, the episode features Dr. Chansong Lee, ...

Growing the size of the Navy has been a bipartisan goal of successive administrations and Congress over the last decade. The service faces capacity limitations as it struggles to meet the demands of ...

Henry H. McVey (New York) joined Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) in 2011 and is Head of the Global Macro and Asset Allocation (GMAA) team. Mr. McVey also serves as chief investment officer for the ...

Normally, national security strategies generate much more discussion than impact. They come out well into an administration, when the policy course is already quite clear and usually not all that ...

The war in Ukraine remains a rapidly evolving conflict. The battlefield, strategic strike, information operations, and industrial production campaigns remain crucial to both Ukraine’s and Russia’s war ...

President Trump’s proposal to repurpose the U.S. plutonium stockpile to fuel nuclear reactors resulted in a May 23, 2025, executive order directing the Department of Energy (DOE) to revisit disposal ...

On October 8, President Donald Trump announced that Israel and Hamas had agreed to the first phase of his peace deal for Gaza. He had unveiled a 20-point plan to end the war in Gaza after meeting with ...

On September 4, several new documents revealed the next steps for the trade deal that the United States and Japan first announced on July 22. In the initial framework agreement, Tokyo promised ...

On Saturday, June 21, the United States attacked three facilities in Iran critical to Tehran’s nuclear program. The attack, named Operation Midnight Hammer, included a strike package of seven B-2 ...

In order to achieve its stated objective of dismantling Iran’s nuclear program, Israel will need to take out a key Iranian facility, the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant. Fordow is buried deep under a ...