According to the Air Force, the military organization has a few job openings — over 2,000 — in the pilot department, especially if you have experience. In

For over a decade, a dozen states and multilateral organizations have invested considerable time, effort, equipment, and hundreds of millions of dollars

Get exclusive audio briefings by experts for experts on the current events that matter. Yesterday, a week after asserting Iranian preparations for a possible attack on U.S. forces in the region, the…

One day Venezuelans will wake up to the news that the Maduro regime has ended. Though it is impossible to know when that day might be (political markets

Donald Trump won the Republican nomination in 2016 and then beat Hillary Clinton in the general election, in part, by pledging to focus on America’s

For years, the U.S. military has been reporting how much territory the Afghan government controls as compared to how much the Taliban controls as a

Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2019). Many Americans would love to

Editor’s note: This is the first in a three-part series assessing the relationship between the National Defense Strategy, the defense budget, and U.S.

On Halloween, 2016, aircraft from seven countries gathered in the skies over Iraq’s western desert to conduct a coordinated strike. Intelligence reporting

The U.S. Air Force is not meeting the needs of field-grade officers and their spouses, directly affecting talent management. American society now promotes

Get exclusive audio briefings by experts for experts on the current events that matter. In the UK, amidst an entrenched impasse on Brexit, and with upcoming European Union elections wherein the UK is…

On April 15, President Donald Trump telephoned Libyan militia commander Khalifa Haftar and praised his Libyan National Army’s offensive against the

Will the so-called “shale revolution” allow the United States to disengage from the Persian Gulf? A rich body of scholarship argues that since the United

Get exclusive audio briefings by experts for experts on the current events that matter. The trade dispute Between U.S. and China intensifies as the Trump administration vows to increase the scope and…

The United States and China are headed for a “cold war lite,” says Minxin Pei. What does this exactly mean? And what threat does China present to the U.S.

The Trump administration’s proposal for the United States Space Force will not produce the agile and innovative organization that advocates hope it will.

Arms embargos are often dismissed as symbolic, and therefore ineffective. But just because something is symbolic, doesn’t mean that it won’t have an

What a difference a year makes. In March 2018, Chinese leader Xi Jinping put an end to presidential term limits in China, thus opening up the possibility

Almost exactly one year ago, an Air Force colonel using a pseudonym -- 'Ned Stark' -- penned an article for War on the Rocks . This cri de coeur -- a call

Imagine reading a news article that begins: “Terrorists delivered a biological weapon at a local sports stadium using a drone swarm, unleashing widespread

During his retreat into Pennsylvania in late 1776, after getting mauled by British expeditionary forces in New York, George Washington wrote Col. John

When I worked in Somalia from 2016 to 2018 supporting provision of military assistance to forces combating al-Shabaab, most discussions with international

It takes less than 24 hours after a Game of Thrones episode airs before the armchair generals emerge, eagerly dissecting the show’s latest events,

During a recent lecture on U.S. strategy in the Asia-Pacific, I presented the absence of interstate wars in East Asia since 1979 — the so-called “Asian