War on the Rocks

A Signal Point of Failure: Integrating BeiDou into U.S....

While serving on the National Security Council staff in the Biden administration...

“Excellent” Calls and “Very Good” Talks but Little Clea...

Welcome to The Adversarial. Every other week, we’ll provide you with expert anal...

Women in the Ranks, but Not in the Clear

When the Pentagon opened combat roles to women in 2015, many assumed the debate ...

Lessons Learned from Pakistan’s Use of Chinese-Provided...

In the latest conflict between Pakistan and India, Pakistan used weapons systems...

Everything Changes but Nothing Changes: Can France Over...

In a recent interview broadcast live on French television, President Emmanuel Ma...

How China Could Counter U.S. Intervention in War Over T...

Has Beijing found a new “assassin’s mace” to keep the U.S. military out of a fig...

Of Fists and Fathers: A Remembrance

Maj. Jim Mauldin, a U.S. Army special forces officer of mammoth size and prodigi...

The Risks of Memorial Day Not Being Personal

Editor’s note: This article was originally published in 2021 In 2007, I spent Me...

The Edge of the Map

Editor’s Note: Nick Danforth’s journey as author of this column is drawing to a ...

Autonomous Weapon Systems: No Human-in-the-Loop Require...

References by Pentagon officials, the think tank world, and various world leader...

The Value of an Asian Tinder Box

In 2021, Julian Spencer-Churchill wrote “Embrace the Arms Race in Asia,” where h...

Results from Trump’s Visit to the Middle East

Last week, President Donald Trump visited Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Ar...

Russia Can Afford to Take a Beating in Ukraine

Russian forces in Ukraine are suffering casualties at more than 400,000 per year...

Why the Nuclear Gravity Bomb Has Gotten a Reboot

Within months of the Cuban Missile Crisis, weapons designers at Los Alamos Natio...

How America’s Special Operators are Preparing for a Hig...

Down in Tampa on the sidelines of SOF Week, Ryan spoke with Lt. Gen. Frank Donov...

Operation Sindoor and the Evolution of India’s Military...

Once more unto the breach, India struck inside Pakistan in response to a terrori...

Tariffs Create Markets — Just Not the Ones Policymakers...

Panic wouldn’t help. Anger would make things worse. So, I stared out at the endl...

Operation Sindoor and the Evolution of India’s Strategy...

Once more unto the breach, India struck inside Pakistan in response to a terrori...

The Army’s Upcoming Transformation, with Secretary Dris...

Ryan popped across the Potomac to the Pentagon to speak with Secretary of the Ar...

Print, Crash, and Reprint: How the Air Force Should Ret...

What if the U.S. Air Force could adapt small, low-cost drones on the battlefield...

Will Russia’s War on Ukraine Keep Resisting Trump’s Dip...

Michael Kofman and Dara Massicot join Ryan to unpack how the Trump administratio...

The Risks of the Latest India-Pakistan Crisis

We are sharing a free episode of Thinking the Unthinkable with you all due to fa...

Crucibles, Not Comfort, Shape Future Military Leaders

A few years ago, a young U.S. military officer asked me a pointed question: “Do ...

Military AI: Angel of our Better Nature or Tool of Cont...

March 16, 1968, is one of the darkest days in U.S. military history. On that day...

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