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From pacifism to pragmatism: Japan's evolving space security policy

Japan, which once ruled out any military use of space, has gradually made use of space for reconnaissance and other nati...

Chinese FM holds strategic dialogue with Russia's Shoigu; Wang warns the world 'faces risk of regressing to law of jungle'

The War Room newsletter: Mission Maduro—when special ops succeed

Richard Cockett, a senior editor, discusses history’s best special operations with an SAS officer

When satellites are hacked: the legal gray zone of non-kinetic space attack

While kinetic attacks, like direct-ascent missiles, on satellites are well understood, less appreciated are non-kinetic ...

China's first Type 054B frigate reaches operational capability, official media reveals amid warship's first commissioning anniversary

What a US military base lost under Greenland’s ice sheet reveals about the island’s real strategic importance

Listen to Paul Bierman, an expert on Greenland’s ice, talk to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the history of the i...

PLA Navy's Type 055 large destroyer boosts anti-submarine capabilities with confrontational exercise in South China Sea

The successful development of Russia's counterspace activities in LEO and GEO

Russia has embarked on a a variety of projects to disrupt or destroy foreign satellites. Matthew Mowthorpe and Markos Tr...

The War Room newsletter: Inside the mission that snatched Maduro

Shashank Joshi, our defence editor, digs into the details

The War Room newsletter: Mega edition—you ask, I answer

Shashank Joshi, our defence editor, answers your questions in the final edition of 2025

The quest to chart the sea

This map reveals what scientists care about—and what armed forces don’t want to share

Chinese FM strongly condemns $11b US arms sales to Taiwan; DPP authorities 'thanking' Washington slammed by island netizens

How to survive abandonment by America

Allies are planning for a lonelier, harsher world: a report from South Korea

"Sovereign capacity" of private and public space programs

Countries are increasingly seeing the strategic value of space capabilities. Alexander Wallace Watson examines the ways ...

Western armed forces have struggled to fill their ranks to deter Russia

More sensible recruiting policies could help

China, Russia conduct strategic alignment on issues related to Japan

Burning Falcon: the death of a Russian laser ASAT plane

Last week, Ukrainian drones and missiles struck a Russian air base. Among the planes destroyed there, Dwayne Day discuss...

Civic groups in Taiwan protest Lai's arms push, oppose being dragged toward battlefield

The wrong sort of peace leads to the next war

Donald Trump’s approach to peacemaking ignores crucial lessons from history

Space is the front line and not the final frontier: The United States should prioritize developing proactive norms of space warfare

Space is increasingly seen as a domain of warfare alongside air, land, and sea. Magdalena Bogacz argues that means the U...

Erik Prince, America’s most notorious mercenary, spies opportunity in chaos

The return of the Blackwater founder is a sign of the times

The loneliness of America’s model ally

Donald Trump has no desire to play global cop. That is tough on Denmark, a loyal sheriff’s deputy

The War Room newsletter: Did a Russian weapon spook Trump?

Shashank Joshi, our defence editor, talks missile protection—in Yorkshire

China is backing Russia’s war to keep America distracted, says Kaja Kallas

China’s rulers want to show it is in their people’s interests to keep America focused on Europe, according to the EU’s f...

Brussels feels like a city preparing for war

Europe readies itself to survive in a world of hostile strongmen

The icy cold war America is busy losing

Its weakest flank isn’t Greenland, but around Alaska

Europe struggles to put homeland defence first

Years of expeditionary operations leave it vulnerable if America abandons the continent

Can the West survive an age of brinkmanship?

It is time to relearn the cold-war arts of escalation management

The flashing red threat from Russia’s dark fleet

NATO navies struggle to contain a new danger on the seas

The War Room newsletter: The best tanks of all time

In a bonus edition of our defence newsletter, Richard Cockett examines an icon from the battlefield

The War Room newsletter: Why Trump wants a Taliban air base back

The president’s neo-imperial worldview has something to do with it, according to Shashank Joshi, our defence editor

Cold war deterrence doesn’t work any more

Why the West is finding it so hard to deter China and Russia

Top Gun—without Maverick

Drones ride into the danger zone

Ukraine has been trying to bring the war to Russia. More Russians are beginning to feel it

What Can China Accomplish with its G-20 Presidency?

China is about to step up for the first time as host of the G-20 this September and the country has been working hard to...

Hazel Smith’s North Korea: Markets and Military Rule

Hazel Smith has written a sweeping book on North Korea that summarizes her long engagement with the country entitled—qui...

Trump to KORUS: Drop dead

The last time I checked in on Donald Trump, he was threatening to inflict on China “a depression the likes of which you ...

Brad Glosserman and Scott Snyder on Japan-Korea Relations

Last month, I had the pleasure of hosting both Scott Snyder (Council on Foreign Relations) and David Straub (Stanford’s ...

America owes the Philippines more than empty praise