In late December 2025, forces backed by the United Arab Emirates swept across six governorates in southern Yemen and seized ...
David Deptula sat down with Patrick McSpadden in the War on the Rocks studio for a wide-ranging conversation. Deptula ...
China didn’t break into America’s telecom networks with futuristic cyber weapons — it walked through unlocked doors. Washington often frames the cyber ...
In 432 B.C.E., a year before the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, the Megarians received an unusual decree from the ...
Moscow’s “Oreshnik” strike on January 9, 2026 is best understood as strategic signaling designed to shape what NATO will and will not do. Russia’s use of ...
Tensions between India and Pakistan — two countries that President Donald Trump claimed had been fighting for 1,500 years — ...
As Iran confronts the aftermath of mass state violence and braces for the possibility of U.S. strikes, debate over the country’s future has intensified.
TikTok has quietly become one of the most influential platforms in the contemporary information environment, not because it ...
Welcome to The Adversarial. Every other week, we’ll provide you with expert analysis on America’s greatest challengers: China ...
In 2021, a single explosion in Minden, Louisiana, sent shockwaves across the U.S. defense industrial base. For nearly two ...
Prediction markets have proven remarkably effective at aggregating dispersed information across many domains. From technology ...
On Friday, Jan. 23, the U.S. Department of Defense released its new National Defense Strategy, which describes how the ...