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 ...

The U.S. Air Force announced, Dec. 22, the designation of YFQ-48A – seen here in an undated photo – as the Mission Design ...

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, UNITED STATES12.14.2025 Illinois Army National Guard Sgt. Bridget Huizenga, kneeling on the the UH-47 ...

China has been spying or collecting information about the United States since the early 1800s, when the first Chinese diplomatic mission was established. Since then, despite revolutions, civil war, ...

Now Russia is seeking to subdue, or even conquer, Georgia economically. This is a side effect of the Ukraine War. A million or more men have fled Russia to avoid getting mobilized into the army and ...

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 ...

Japan lost in World War II, the only war the revived Japanese Empire had ever lost. Japan lost all its overseas possessions and for nearly half a century remained a military nonentity in East Asia.

Burkina Faso underwent two coups in 2022; the leader of those takeovers was replaced by the current military government this year. The current leader vowed to deal with the growing Islamic terrorism.