Ukraine is shifting the war into a battle of attrition, using mass drone warfare and military reforms to inflict losses Russia may no longer be able to replace.

Driven by lessons from World War II and China’s expanding presence, Japan’s strategic orientation is pivoting eastward into the Pacific.

Russia has not abandoned the game in the Middle East, and many countries in the region still have reasons to expand ties with ...

The UK’s expanding military flight paths across South America are raising new questions about alliances, sovereignty, and what’s really happening behind closed airfields.

In April 2025, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth issued a memo calling on the Department of War to implement “a comprehensive ...

Several Republicans decried the notion of using the military against an ally. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told lawmakers during a classified briefing on Capitol Hill earlier this week that the U.S.

This article appeared in History of War magazine issue 146. In May 1939, the US Senate debated a proposal to purchase the territory of Greenland from Denmark. The War Department was consulted, but ...

Brent Sadler is a senior fellow for naval warfare and advanced technology at The Heritage Foundation. On Dec. 29, Washington, D.C., woke up to an array of news stories, but the one meriting greatest ...

An F-16 Fighting Falcon from the 40th Flight Test Squadron flies over the Gulf of America, Nov. 25, 2025. F-16s assigned to the 40th FTS test new hardware and software systems to modernize the entire ...

China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has for decades marshaled resources, technology, and political will to achieve its vision of a world-class military. The PLA is a key component of China’s ...

The Trump administration is classifying certain Latin American drug traffickers as terrorists and enemy combatants, allowing potential military strikes. Opponents argue this blurs the line between law ...

President Donald Trump’s National Security Strategy (NSS) appears to cement a radically different US approach to international relations. “The days of the United States propping up the entire world ...