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

Patterns and strategy in current U.S. foreign policy are hard to discern given President Donald Trump’s personalistic, mercurial, and transactional style.

No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law -Article I, Section 9, Clause 7, U.S. Constitution Weeks ago, ...

America's greatest national security threat is an enemy born from and nurtured by the Pentagon: crippling bureaucracy. It starves the oxygen from good ...

U.S. attacks on alleged narcotics trafficking boats continue unabated with little apparent concern for near-unanimous legal condemnation. The Trump ...

Across Europe, nations have signaled a desire to dig, wire, and network their frontiers. From the Baltic Defense Line and the European Union’s proposed ...

I do not know the origins of the Trump administration’s 28-point peace plan to resolve the Russo-Ukrainian War, but I can ...

In 2023, Tim Sweijs wrote “Mind the Middle Powers,” where he argued that middle power countries play as critical of a role in shaping geopolitics and ...

This is the third in a series exploring key AI policy choices faced by the Department of Defense & Congress. Please also read the first ...

I take a special interest in Anwar al-Awlaki because he fooled me twice. He came to my attention in 2008 through his personal website, Imam Anwar’s Blog, where he detailed his recent stay in a Yemeni ...

With the authorization of an international administration and stabilization force for Gaza, U.N. Security Council Resolution 2803 marks a historic endorsement of the U.S.-led plan to reinforce the ...

The U.S. military suffered more than 20,000 casualties in Afghanistan. Then America went home, leaving behind a tattered country with an uncertain future. The victims of this war were left with scars ...