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Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s recent visit to three Southeast Asian countries drew widespread headlines — not only for diplomatic pageantry but also for its ...

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The Multi-Domain War The challenge for the United States and most of its allies and partners lies in the fact that the legal principles applied during land warfare and counter-insurgency operations in ...

Whether the United States defines China as a global threat or a predominantly regional one will have pervasive implications for U.S. alliance and deterrence strategy in Europe and the Indo-Pacific.

For over seventy years, U.S. military power has formed the backbone of Europe’s security architecture. American leadership enabled the continent to ...

The Gap Between Ownership and Employment When Marine MQ-9As took off from Kadena Air Base in 2024, it marked a major milestone: For the first time, a Marine-operated long endurance drone supported ...

As China’s biotechnology and biopharmaceutical sectors mature and become more innovative, China is also developing a dual-use production capability and scientific know-how relevant to sophisticated ...

Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of three articles on the U.S. Marine Corps. The first article was published on June 16, 2025, and the second article was published on June 19, 2025.

What a Wargame Is (and Isn’t) Wargames are often misunderstood. They’re not predictive models. They don’t produce precise measures of effectiveness or deliver statistically significant forecasts of ...

History helps shed light on the relationship between intelligence, strategy, and clandestine diplomacy. In 1967, Israeli officials approached the White House in search of material support in advance ...