The president asked Congress to approve a Pentagon funding request of $1.5 trillion for next year’s defense budget. This ...

We've hooked up some machinery,” said Tommy, “that amounts to a mechanical translator… When you're ready to talk to the skipper of the other ship, sir, I ...

The Baltic states are stalwart NATO members today, but their membership was not assured from the moment they restored their ...

In this second installment of *The First Draft of History*, analysts Rob Lee and Dmytro Putiata pick up where they left off to tackle one of the most defining ...

In the late 1970s, the United States often seemed to be a superpower in decline. Battered by crises and setbacks around the globe, its post–World War II international leadership appeared to be ...

The latest summit meeting between the leaders of the United States and the People's Republic of China has renewed debate about strategic competition, diplomatic bargaining, deterrence, and the future ...

Based on comparative historical analyses of Iran, Jordan, and Kuwait, Sean L. Yom examines the foreign interventions, coalitional choices, and state outcomes that made the political regimes of the ...

“Speak softly and carry a big stick” Theodore Roosevelt famously said in 1901, when the United States was emerging as a great power. It was the right sentiment, perhaps, in an age of imperial rivalry ...

Misunderstanding Terrorism provides a striking reassessment of the scope and nature of the global neo-jihadi threat to the West. The post-9/11 decade experienced the emergence of new forms of ...

Rob Lee and Dmytro Putiata break down the war in Ukraine as it stands right now: a front line that has stabilized but stays fragile, and where Russia is ...

Welcome to Ukraine Military History — a podcast about how wars are really fought, and won, from the people who've fought them. In this opening episode, Samuel ...