The United Kingdom’s Defence Investment Plan (DIP) has now finally been published after substantial delay and controversy, ...

Back in February 2025, when US Vice President JD Vance announced at the Munich Security Conference that US assistance would be scaled back and called on Europe to take greater responsibility for its ...

The first serious book to examine what happens when the ancient boundary between war and peace is erased. Once, war was a temporary state of affairs—a violent but brief interlude between times of ...

“Speak softly and carry a big stick” Theodore Roosevelt famously said in 1901, when the United States was emerging as a great power. It was the right sentiment, perhaps, in an age of imperial rivalry ...

Jonathan D. Caverley is a visiting Senior Fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), where he is completing a book on the global defense industrial base with support from the ...

In this second installment of *The First Draft of History*, analysts Rob Lee and Dmytro Putiata pick up where they left off to tackle one of the most defining ...

To prevent logistical bottlenecks and operate more independently across critical frontline sectors, Rubicon restructured its specialized combat units by dramatically increasing personnel size. These ...

In the late 1970s, the United States often seemed to be a superpower in decline. Battered by crises and setbacks around the globe, its post–World War II international leadership appeared to be ...