The war with Iran has prompted many questions about what comes next. Will the Islamic Republic regime survive? What could replace it? Will Iran dissolve ...

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In late 2017, while traveling to Moscow on official duty, I experienced a sudden, debilitating health incident. After a long and arduous battle with the CIA to obtain treatment, military doctors at ...

Advanced violence is democratizing.  AI, in conjunction with dramatic improvements in robotics, energy production, and ...

In Beirut, Baghdad, and across the Middle East, the same pattern repeats: a leader is killed, a funeral fills the streets, and within weeks someone new is ...

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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 ...

Welcome to The Adversarial. Every other week, we’ll provide you with expert analysis on America’s greatest challengers: China ...

Is publicly confronting the likely next prime minister of Iraq the right strategy for the United States? The nomination of ...

What changes when China’s leader finally states a reserve currency ambition explicitly? Xi Jinping has now done so, calling ...

The Trump administration should abandon any plans to arm Iranian Kurdish forces before the first fighter crosses the Iraqi-Iranian border. Not refine it.