For the first two years of his administration, President Trump has rarely had to deal with much resistance from Congress when it came to overseas military campaigns...
Since 2001, the U.S. has waged ground wars in Afghanistan and Iraq while also waging an ongoing and seemingly-without-end global ‘war on terror.’ To wage those wars, thousands of airstrikes by both manned planes and unmanned drones have been conducted even beyond Iraq and Afghanistan, including in...
Long before Afghanistan, Vietnam held a unique place in U.S. history as America’s ‘forever war.’ The legacy of Vietnam still reverberates today, both in terms of the remarkable length of combat operations (1955 to 1973) and concerning the social and political cleavages from that tragic...
The fight against the so-called Islamic State is entering a new phase. With the group’s last remaining vestige of land in Syria captured by U.S.-backed forces, the territorial caliphate has been completely retaken...
February 11, 2019, marks the 40th anniversary of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, and regime leaders are celebrating their grip on power despite major upheavals over the course of their rule, including the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, the 2009 Green Movement uprising, and the U.S. imposition and re-imposition of...
When U.S. Director of National Intelligence, Dan Coats, presented the 2019 National Intelligence Strategy on January 28, he highlighted the threat to U.S. national security posed by an increasing Moscow-Beijing alignment...
January 2019 was the hottest month on record for Australia. Across the country, average temperatures exceeded 30 Celsius (86 Fahrenheit). Adelaide set an all-time high of 49.5 Celsius (121.1 Fahrenheit)...
After nearly two decades at war in Afghanistan, the United States seems to be seriously pursuing a negotiated peace agreement with the Taliban...
The treaties on missile defense and nuclear deterrence negotiated between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War avoided escalation and kept that war relatively ‘cold’...
On January 29, the nation’s top intelligence chiefs testified in an open hearing before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence...
By a vote of 153 in favor and 146 against, Greece’s parliament voted on January 25 to approve the name, ‘the Republic of North Macedonia’ for its neighbor to the north...
Throughout Southeast Asia, entrenched rivalries, repeated splintering of terrorist organizations, and infighting between factions of jihadi groups have limited their reach in the recent past...
Earlier this month, China tested the ‘Guam Killer,’ an intermediate-range ballistic missile with the capability to strike U.S. bases and vessels in the Pacific, immediately spurring debates about the potential for a Sino-American military showdown...
A series of actions undertaken by terrorists to target the international community have occurred in Burkina Faso over recent weeks, including the kidnapping of two international aid workers in December and a Canadian mining worker who was later found dead...
In familiar echoes of decades past, Russia and the U.S. are once again accusing each other of supporting illegitimate dictatorships and plotting regime change in Latin America....