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Aug 4, 2026
On July 20, a China Coast Guard team in a small boat closed on Philippine sailors near Second Thomas Shoal and repeatedly struck one of them on the head with a wooden baton, leaving...
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Jul 20, 2026
Vladimir Putin can probably afford another year of the Ukraine war more easily than he can afford the first year of peace.
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Jul 14, 2026
The United States can hit almost anything Iran places near the Strait of Hormuz. It cannot hit the strait itself. That distinction is the whole story of this war right now.
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Jul 8, 2026
Cheap drones can make a Chinese assault on Taiwan bloodier and a quick victory less likely — but they don’t repeal geography or remove the risk of escalation. CSIS...
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Jun 29, 2026
Ukraine has made Russia’s rear a battlefield, and it is doing it at a scale Russia can no longer brush aside.
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Jun 17, 2026
When Trump’s Iran war ends with a signed settlement, the verdicts will come fast — and most will be premature. The questions that actually matter can’t be answered...
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Jun 17, 2026
Despite recent increases in military spending, Canada’s guiding strategy is still based on dependence on US might.
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Jun 6, 2026
For three years, the West has waited for Russia to crack — and it hasn’t. Moscow absorbed the sanctions, replaced its losses, and kept its war machine running, defying...
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Jun 3, 2026
Russia is bleeding up to 1,500 men a day in the Ukraine war — enough that the army must rebuild a full division every two weeks just to stand still.
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Jun 1, 2026
Most commentary on Russia’s frozen reserves treats the story as one of irony. Vladimir Putin accumulated nearly $300 billion to protect Russia from Western pressure, only to...
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May 21, 2026
Iran never aimed to close the Strait of Hormuz, Dr. Andrew Latham argues.
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May 16, 2026
Between April 2025 and January, leaders of an Alberta separatist group called the Alberta Prosperity Project walked into the U.S. State Department three times. Treasury Secretary...
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May 7, 2026
“Project Freedom” lasted 48 hours. The U.S. military launched escort operations through the Strait of Hormuz on May 5, sank six Iranian small boats, and guided two...
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May 5, 2026
The Iran ceasefire holds. Diplomats produce something they can call a framework. The immediate military pressure eases, and Washington declares a measure of success.
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May 4, 2026
The debate over what China’s military is actually for keeps producing the wrong answer because it keeps asking the wrong question. Global power projection or regional enforcer...
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Apr 27, 2026
Russia pocketed several billion dollars in the first two weeks after the Strait of Hormuz closed. That figure is worth sitting with — real money, attached...
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Apr 23, 2026
President Donald Trump has claimed victory in the war in Iran even before the conflict is over. But despite killing the country’s leader and seriously...
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Apr 11, 2026
Late last month, standing on the deck of a Royal Canadian Navy warship in Halifax, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced something his predecessors had promised for a decade but never...
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Apr 3, 2026
If the United States cannot secure a clean victory over Iran — a country with no blue-water navy, no fifth-generation air force, and an economy smaller than the state of Texas...
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Mar 16, 2026
Dr. Andrew Latham, a professor of international relations, evaluates the “Day After” scenarios for Iran. While Operation Epic Fury has achieved significant military...
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Mar 9, 2026
The Trump Doctrine, a fundamental shift in American power projection, is currently being visualized through the high-intensity strikes of Operation Epic Fury.
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Mar 6, 2026
Dr. Andrew Latham, a professor of international relations and fellow at Defense Priorities, evaluates this “Trumpian Dilemma.” He argues that while the mission to disable...
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Feb 18, 2026
A major U.S. strike campaign could severely damage Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, missile networks, and IRGC command nodes.
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Feb 2, 2026
The division of Korea was always understood to be temporary. In its early decades, that presumption was based on the armistice itself, which called for a ceasefire to suspend...
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Jan 27, 2026
Everyone Is Asking the Wrong Question About Trump’s Foreign Policy
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Jan 21, 2026
Greenland is unlikely to fracture NATO as an institution, but it could weaken what matters most: deterrence credibility. If Washington applies visible pressure on Denmark over...
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Jan 16, 2026
Much of the commentary on Donald Trump’s approach to Iran begins from a familiar assumption: that he is bent on toppling the Islamic Republic—the reading...
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Jan 9, 2026
President Trump’s renewed call to “take control” of Greenland is being dismissed by experts as a strategic “bluff” with no military rationale.
