Welcome to The Adversarial. Every other week, we’ll provide you with expert analysis on America’s greatest challengers: China ...
President Donald Trump’s return to the White House has revived a familiar anxiety across Europe and Taiwan: How reliable is the United States when its ...
Even after Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was captured, U.S. nationals may still be prosecuted under international law ...
China’s newly released 15th Five-Year Plan (2026–2030) proposal, unveiled after the Fourth Party Plenum in October 2025, not ...
It’s early days, but the Trump administration’s approach to a post-President Nicolás Maduro Venezuela is quickly coming into ...
On Apr. 7, 1945, aircraft from the U.S. Navy’s fast carrier task force sank the largest battleship ever built, the Imperial ...
A targeting screen fills with structures, heat signatures, and a rapidly closing window. Aircraft have only minutes of fuel ...
When journalists or policy experts fretfully discuss arms racing and military buildups in the Indo-Pacific, they tend to focus on Northeast Asian ...
In January 2025, when the Trump administration froze nearly all foreign aid, more than 1,000 emergency communal kitchens in ...
As this article goes to press, security officials in Iran are carefully weighing their options on how to dole out violence to ...
When I was in middle school, I ate lunch every day with the same group of boys. Most of us brought the same brown-bagged peanut butter and jelly ...
In July, the team at EarthTraq, a dual-use space company, received an email suggesting we “go through the Space Force Front ...