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

In 2024, Tom Johansmeyer wrote “Why Natural Catastrophes Will Always Be Worse than Cyber Catastrophes,” where he laid to rest ...

The United States lost the war against a weapon that almost everyone knows by its acronym: the IED or improvised explosive ...

Can America deter China if its warships are stuck in port? Probably not. And the problem is made worse by chronic ...

As the United States continues to increase its military presence in the Caribbean and to strike boats that the government ...

There are plenty of elements to praise in Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s acquisition transformation announcement last ...

If past is prologue, the Pentagon will soon release its annual report on Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China.

References by Pentagon officials, the think tank world, and various world leaders to autonomous weapon systems often cite a U.S. military policy requirement that doesn’t even exist. Published in 2012 ...

Russian forces in Ukraine are suffering casualties at more than 400,000 per year — enough to pack the house at the world’s four largest stadiums. Losses like these have been fuel for simultaneous talk ...

Over the course of the last 22 years, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey has fought and endured a great deal in order to remain in power. Court challenges, corruption investigations, close ...

As the new American president shook allied capitals all over the world, a Virginia-class submarine — the USS Minnesota — arrived at a port in western Australia for the first of many routine Australian ...