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Chinese leader Xi Jinping has purged dozens of senior People’s Liberation Army officers since mid-2023, including two in January, but will this increase the risk of war? The loss of experienced officers could make Xi less confident in how his mil…
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Could China replace the United States atop the target list of transnational jihadist groups like al-Qaeda? A recent statement released by Sheikh Saad bin Atef al Awlaqi, the emir of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, directly threatened China, labeling…
Munich was warmer than Washington this weekend, both in weather and in sentiment. Neither development was widely forecast. The sense of crisis in transatlantic relations was plain, especially on the European side, and the world descended on the Bayeris…
John Maynard Keynes once wrote, “The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones,” an apt depiction of the current discourse and debate of what the world will look like now that the New Strategic Arms Reduction …
Infernos raged aboard Japanese aircraft carriers after U.S. Navy dive-bombers found their marks during the Battle of Midway. Many Japanese pilots were incinerated in ready rooms and in the cockpits of their aircraft while they sat idling on flight deck…
In early January 2026, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dropped a bombshell. In an interview for the Economist, he claimed that he sought to “taper off” the $3.8 billion in military aid that Israel receives from the United States o…
Tensions between India and Pakistan — two countries that President Donald Trump claimed had been fighting for 1,500 years — escalated rapidly over a few days in May 2025.On May 7–10, the two countries fought an 88-hour war after India…
As this article goes to press, security officials in Iran are carefully weighing their options on how to dole out violence to preserve an authoritarian system. It is an existential moment for any authoritarian regime, and one that Chinese leader Xi Jin…
Simultaneous disruption and progress, with a relentless Taiwan-focused capability development deadline.That’s the overriding theme of the 25th edition of the Department of Defense’s China Military Power Report, released on Dec. 23, 202…