Andrea Gilli, PhD, is lecturer at the University of St Andrews, senior advisor at the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense in Italy, and expert mentor at NATO’s Defense Innovation Accelerator of ...

James Kraska is Charles H. Stockton professor of international law and chair of the Stockton Center for International Law at the U.S. Naval War College and John Harvey Gregory lecturer on world ...

Over the course of the last 22 years, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey has fought and endured a great deal in order to remain in power. Court challenges, corruption investigations, close ...

David Johnson is a retired Army colonel. He is a principal researcher at the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation and an adjunct scholar at the Modern War Institute at West Point. He is the author ...

Yet, the tone of the 2023 strategic posture report and NSC-68 are remarkably similar — they both warn against the potential inability of U.S. military forces to counter the ambitions of a ...

Sieges, however, are neither an anomaly of contemporary armed conflict, nor something that is the result of bad tactics or attritionalist ways of warfare. A survey of armed conflict finds that 60 ...

In War on the Rocks, Caitlin Lee recently presented an updated version of the Gulf War paradigm for deterring a Chinese invasion of Taiwan — and argued against our preferred strategy of air denial.

The Defense Department’s actions to support Ukraine today are stimulating the capability development and organizational change needed to deter a China-Taiwan war tomorrow. In particular, the ...

About 50 years ago, American observers drew lessons from the 1973 Yom Kippur War. That war, between Israel and its neighbors, rocked the Middle East. Egyptian AT-3 Sagger anti-tank missiles cut ...

Europe’s Transformation in Contact Command and control is not a single piece of technology. It is a complex system that spans from an organization’s structure and processes to the networks, software, ...

Col. John Christianson is a military fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is an F-15E weapon systems officer and electronic warfare officer who has also flown the EA-6B and ...

In rethinking America’s approach to airpower, pundits should look to Mahan’s contemporary, the British naval theorist Sir Julian Corbett. Corbett regarded total command of the sea with skepticism, ...