In contemporary South Asian crises, velocity matters more than military power. Velocity means how fast responsibility is assigned, actions are authorized, ...

Congress has unintentionally shifted the burden of preventing an unconstitutional war squarely onto the military. By failing to exercise its war powers, ...

This exclusive Cogs of War interview is with Jean-François Morizur, the CEO and founder of Cailabs, a French company focused on ground-to-satellite laser ...

Welcome to The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spectrum only for War on the Rocks members.

The Manhattan Project brought allied scientists to Los Alamos because winning required pooling allied scientific capacity.

As I conclude nearly four decades of military and public service, including as lieutenant governor of Guam, a line from the ...

What use to Iran is Hizballah in the event of all-out war against the regime? In principle, a great deal. In practice, not so much. The ongoing U.S. and ...

A merry little surge of electricity piped by automatic alarm from the mood organ beside his bed awakened Rick Deckard.” The characters in Philip K.

Is publicly confronting the likely next prime minister of Iraq the right strategy for the United States? The nomination of ...

In the age of AI, the scarcest resource in headquarters is no longer time. It is, rather, the willingness to say no. Artificial intelligence is moving ...

What changes when China’s leader finally states a reserve currency ambition explicitly? Xi Jinping has now done so, calling ...

It seems natural to assume that relentless pressure will force authoritarian leaders to yield, yet the opposite is often true. When survival is at stake, ...