Welcome to The Adversarial. Every other week, we’ll provide you with expert analysis on America’s greatest challengers: China ...
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Europe’s most fragile region is not sleepwalking toward war, but it is quietly recalibrating for it. Across the Western ...
China’s top military leadership has been shaken by a new round of purges at the highest level, raising urgent questions about ...
In Jan. 2025, Farzin Zandi wrote, “How Iran Lost Before It Lost: The Roll Back of its Gray Zone Strategy,” where he argued ...
The most consequential infrastructure decisions in Panama today are often not made at the locks of the canal, but in ...
GPS denial is no longer a theoretical future threat. It is the environment in which modern forces increasingly operate. China has invested heavily in ...
John Maynard Keynes once wrote, “The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones”: an apt ...
On Feb. 13 to 15, leaders and specialists from around the world — especially Europe and the United States — attended the 62nd Munich Security Conference.
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What happens when the proxy network loses its patron but not its guns? We might be about to find out. Negotiations between the United States and Iran ...
Could China replace the United States atop the target list of transnational jihadist groups like al-Qaeda? A recent statement released by Sheikh Saad bin ...