Over the last 25 years, I've written several New Year's columns discussing global strategic challenges. The essay typically sketched ongoing violence, potential violence or the very rare instance of ...

The United States and other Western and local allies like Australia, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan and Singapore send warships and aircraft into the disputed areas to confront the Chinese. The message is ...

An F-16 Fighting Falcon from the 40th Flight Test Squadron flies over the Gulf of America, Nov. 25, 2025. F-16s assigned to ...

This system has expanded since the late 1940s, with a series of modifications including one this year that added a new command to handle the United States and all the other nations in the Western ...

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NATO nations are facing major military, economic and security problems because of the war in Ukraine. What it comes down to is that military leaders back all possible military aid for Ukraine while ...

Nearly four years of war in Ukraine have devastated the Russian civilian economy. This year, 75 percent of Russia’s regions report serious budget deficits and more enterprises are becoming ...

Most of this has to do with counter-terrorism operations, and support of operations in the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean, and keeping an eye on China’s growing naval forces. To make this possible, ...

In doing this Ukraine reduced the number of subordinate units a commander must deal with. Because of these reforms Ukraine was able to defeat Russian efforts to carry out offensives rapidly in Donetsk ...

The war in Ukraine has provided Russia with multiple problems. One of the more troublesome is growing public criticism. Many Russians are protesting not the invasion of Ukraine, but the impact it is ...

There followed the realization that the U.S. shipbuilding industry shriveled in the face of the overwhelming Chinese domination. This diminished the ability of the U.S. Navy to maintain and repair ...