It was, Anthropic declared, “the first documented case of a large-scale cyberattack executed without substantial human intervention.” This assault on U.S. infrastructure was innovative in its use of ...

In 1988, the military historian James Stokesbury observed that democracies are best at fighting either little wars, which are reserved for “professionals” and don’t involve ordinary citizens, or ...

The great irony, however, is that the LUCAS drone is based on Iran’s own low-cost one-way attack drone, the Shahed-136. In May 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump publicly praised the Iranian drones as ...

Trump needs to figure out what he wants—and quickly.

More and more, governments have seen a need to compel changes in corporate behavior to achieve their foreign policy aims—in effect, to dabble in state capitalism. That shift has been in the works for ...

Iran launched hundreds of ballistic missiles and drones not only at Israel but also across the Gulf. Air raid sirens sounded in Tel Aviv and Haifa. Missiles slammed into interceptors over Doha and Abu ...

Iran’s regional network of proxy groups had been severely weakened before this latest round of fighting began. Since Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, Israeli forces have not only ...

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At the end of this month, U.S. President Donald Trump is scheduled to visit China for a major summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, the first of what may be as many as four meetings between the two ...

The military campaign that Israel and the United States launched last Saturday against Iran may be a joint operation. But the two countries’ experiences of the war—and its leaders’ strategic ...

Yet the chances that Trump will launch a Maduro-style military mission in Cuba remain low. After his Venezuela operation, undertaking a similar ouster would no longer have the advantage of surprise, ...

The Islamic Republic, knowing that this fight is existential, retaliated quickly with deadly missile and drone attacks on Israel, U.S. bases in the Middle East, and targets in Gulf states and beyond.