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Sep 22, 2025
Though their landscape is picturesque, the Baltic states are not built for defense. Lakes and swamps provide some benefit, but there are no mountains, jungles, or Rhine-sized rivers...
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Jun 18, 2025
Fighting on multiple fronts simultaneously is a mistake, as Europe well knows. Napoleon lost his throne because his armies were spread thin from Madrid to Moscow. In two world wars,...
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May 15, 2025
China’s Encroachment In the Yellow Sea Is Making South Korea Nervous: As if tensions aren’t already running high between China and its neighbors, Beijing is...
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May 1, 2025
Without mutual exhaustion or strong external enforcement (which Europe currently lacks capacity for), any cessation of hostilities in Ukraine would likely be merely a temporary truce...
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Apr 16, 2025
In March 2025, a small flotilla of Chinese warships sailed around Australia, raising fears reminiscent of Japan’s threat in 1942. Yet despite entering Australia’s...
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Apr 9, 2025
As the Trump administration disrupts global politics, some fear that China might take advantage of the chaos to invade Taiwan.
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Jan 15, 2025
Just a few years ago, Syria seemed proof that Russia had thrown off its post-Soviet blues.