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

America's greatest national security threat is an enemy born from and nurtured by the Pentagon: crippling bureaucracy. It starves the oxygen from good ...

Patterns and strategy in current U.S. foreign policy are hard to discern given President Donald Trump’s personalistic, mercurial, and transactional style.

No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law -Article I, Section 9, Clause 7, U.S. Constitution Weeks ago, ...

In 2023, Tim Sweijs wrote “Mind the Middle Powers,” where he argued that middle power countries play as critical of a role in shaping geopolitics and ...

Across Europe, nations have signaled a desire to dig, wire, and network their frontiers. From the Baltic Defense Line and the European Union’s proposed ...

U.S. attacks on alleged narcotics trafficking boats continue unabated with little apparent concern for near-unanimous legal condemnation. The Trump ...

This is the third in a series exploring key AI policy choices faced by the Department of Defense & Congress. Please also read the first ...