In the case of deterrence and prevention, however, I would suggest that the mess runs deep, and the theory is not tidy at all. When people talk about deterrence, they usually assume that the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President George W. Bush’s vision was that by imposing democracy on Iraq, "freedom" would spread throughout the greater Middle ...

The views expressed here are solely those of the author. They do not necessarily represent the views of the Naval War College, the U.S. Navy, or the Department of Defense. Iran is committed to a ...

Kori Schake observes how similar Trump administration statements about North Korea are to statements from Bush administration officials when they were arguing for the invasion of Iraq. She concludes: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Smoke rises from locations targeted in Tehran amid the third day of Israel's waves of strikes against Iran, on June 15, 2025.

Editor-in-chief of Russia in Global Affairs magazine Fyodor Lukyanov remarked that Putin’s address's devoted mostly to the economy, social sphere, while some foreign policy aspects were less important ...

Since the turn of the millennium, war between nuclear powers has never loomed so near. As North Korea sprints toward the finish line in its race to build a credible nuclear deterrent, the window of ...

After 1945, one of the principal reasons why America lost every war it started was because of profoundly flawed strategic thinking. The tragedy is that this flaw still persists. In Vietnam, the ...