Welcome to The Adversarial. Every other week, we’ll provide you with expert analysis on America’s greatest challengers: China ...

When journalists or policy experts fretfully discuss arms racing and military buildups in the Indo-Pacific, they tend to focus on Northeast Asian ...

In late December, a new wave of protests broke out in Iran — eventually spreading around the country and across many sectors ...

Many strategists, myself included, believe that unmanned surface vessels could be part of an approach to help the U.S. Navy maintain an edge over its ...

In 2024, Brian Petit wrote, “Send in the A Team: A Graduated Response for Ukraine,” where he argued for sending the Green Berets into Ukraine for training and assistance to the Ukrainian armed forces.

Thanks to AI, cheating in professional military education is becoming pervasive. Drawing on our perspectives as a uniformed instructor and as a recent ...

As sea temperatures and geopolitical tensions simultaneously heat up, Greenland’s strategic importance increases. Against this backdrop, the specter of American territorial expansion has emerged as a ...

In July, the team at EarthTraq, a dual-use space company, received an email suggesting we “go through the Space Force Front ...

Even after Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was captured, U.S. nationals may still be prosecuted under international law for the country’s previous attacks against suspected drug-carrying boats in ...

As this article goes to press, security officials in Iran are carefully weighing their options on how to dole out violence to ...

AM The United States has crossed a decisive threshold in its long confrontation with Venezuela. After months of military ...

In January 2025, when the Trump administration froze nearly all foreign aid, more than 1,000 emergency communal kitchens in ...