A Great Rebalancing Is Coming
Who will bear the costs of a global trade adjustment?
Leave Europe to the Europeans
The case for a U.S. military drawdown.
India Is Sticking With America—for Now
But Trump’s coercion could force Modi’s Hand.
The New Right’s Grand Strategy After Trump
Civilizationism would upend America’s role in the world.
The End of Thailand’s Long Stalemate?
Conservatives finally won and took over the state.
“The Strategy of Terrorism”
A quarter century before 9/11, an upsurge in global terrorism prompted the historian David Fromkin to examine its purpose and method. Terrorism was a strategy of the weak, Fromkin…
Why Criminals Love the Chinese Economy
And why Beijing can’t—or won’t—crack down.
How AI Could Hollow Out the U.S. Military
The best soldiers know how to think for themselves.
A China Strategy That Lasts
Congress must lead to compete with Beijing.
How Alliances Survive
The case against pessimism and the path to a new allied order.
How China Found Its Most Potent Weapon
The real history of Beijing’s rare-earth dominance.
America’s Missing Military Revolution
Why Washington still risks losing the tech race.
AI and the New Age of Bioweapons
Preparing for a world of synthetic pathogens.
Democracies Need Creative Destruction
How to make government work again.
America Doesn’t Need More Nuclear Weapons
Expanding the stockpile could weaken deterrence.
The End of the American Middle East
Iran and the last gasp of a failed order.
The Future of Ukraine’s Drone Democracy
Transforming the military has changed the war—and upended politics.
The Impossible Middle East
After the Iran war, the region has no good options.
Maximum Pressure on Iran Will Fail
Trump's war has brought American strategy to a dead end.