Europe’s most fragile region is not sleepwalking toward war, but it is quietly recalibrating for it. Across the Western ...

China’s top military leadership has been shaken by a new round of purges at the highest level, raising urgent questions about ...

On Feb. 13 to 15, leaders and specialists from around the world — especially Europe and the United States — attended the 62nd Munich Security Conference.

GPS denial is no longer a theoretical future threat. It is the environment in which modern forces increasingly operate. China has invested heavily in ...

Please note, as a matter of house style, War on the Rocks will not use a different name for the U.S. Department of Defense until and unless the ...

In Jan. 2025, Farzin Zandi wrote, “How Iran Lost Before It Lost: The Roll Back of its Gray Zone Strategy,” where he argued ...

There is a long history of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, often involving the United States as the primary negotiator.

John Maynard Keynes once wrote, “The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones”: an apt ...

Could China replace the United States atop the target list of transnational jihadist groups like al-Qaeda? A recent statement released by Sheikh Saad bin ...

What happens when the proxy network loses its patron but not its guns? We might be about to find out. Negotiations between the United States and Iran ...

Munich was warmer than Washington this weekend, both in weather and in sentiment. Neither development was widely forecast. The sense of crisis in ...

Welcome to The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spectrum only ...