May, Belarus and Russia announced that they would conduct military exercises involving the delivery of nuclear weapons to ...

At CNA he works on nuclear policy, illicit activity, remote sensing, and adversary force posture analysis. His open-source ...

This year’s NATO Summit in Ankara was less about substance than Trump centered theatrical spectacle, but the central message ...

The United Kingdom’s Defence Investment Plan (DIP) has now finally been published after substantial delay and controversy, ...

Back in February 2025, when US Vice President JD Vance announced at the Munich Security Conference that US assistance would be scaled back and called on Europe to take greater responsibility for its ...

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 ...

The first serious book to examine what happens when the ancient boundary between war and peace is erased. Once, war was a temporary state of affairs—a violent but brief interlude between times of ...

Jonathan D. Caverley is a visiting Senior Fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), where he is completing a book on the global defense industrial base with support from the ...

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 ...

On April 10, after coalition forces had fired at least 1,700 Patriots in just five weeks, the Pentagon announced a $4.76 billion contract to accelerate production. While a seemingly forceful response, ...