China’s top military leadership has been shaken by a new round of purges at the highest level, raising urgent questions about ...

Europe’s most fragile region is not sleepwalking toward war, but it is quietly recalibrating for it. Across the Western ...

On Feb. 13 to 15, leaders and specialists from around the world — especially Europe and the United States — attended the 62nd Munich Security Conference.

GPS denial is no longer a theoretical future threat. It is the environment in which modern forces increasingly operate. China has invested heavily in ...

Please note, as a matter of house style, War on the Rocks will not use a different name for the U.S. Department of Defense until and unless the ...

There is a long history of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, often involving the United States as the primary negotiator.

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 ...

What happens when the proxy network loses its patron but not its guns? We might be about to find out. Negotiations between the United States and Iran ...

John Maynard Keynes once wrote, “The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones”: an apt ...

In Jan. 2025, Farzin Zandi wrote, “How Iran Lost Before It Lost: The Roll Back of its Gray Zone Strategy,” where he argued Iran’s proxy network and gray ...

In the wake of 9/11, the newly established Office of the Director of National Intelligence produced the nation’s first National Intelligence Strategy, a ...

Munich was warmer than Washington this weekend, both in weather and in sentiment. Neither development was widely forecast. The sense of crisis in ...