Security
The Broken Nuclear Umbrella
What comes after extended deterrence.
Heartland vs. Rimland
The battle lines in the war for the next global order.
The Afghanistan Reckoning
Forever wars and the costs of collective forgetting.
The United States’ Missed Opportunity in Latin America
Economic security begins closer to home.
True North?
Missed Opportunities Choi Jong Kun and Joel S. Wit In “North Korea as It Is” (May/June 2026), Victor Cha recasts three decades of diplomacy as a strategic failure and claims that North Korean leaders were uniformly deceitful and “determined to build a nuclear arsenal at any cost.” But Cha’s narrative of futility is wrong. Read […]
Who Is Winning Africa’s Drone Wars?
Ukraine isn’t the only battlefield shaping autonomous warfare.
America, Iran, and a World in Turmoil
A Conversation With Ian Bremmer
Iran Didn’t Win the War
Tehran is still losing the long game.
The Mirage of China’s Military Edge
Panic is misguided—and counterproductive.
The Next Russia Threat
Moscow’s military power after Ukraine.