The United States and Russia could embark on an unrestrained nuclear arms race for the first time since the Cold War, unless they reach an eleventh-hour deal before their last remaining arms control ...
Goodbye New START: How China’s Rise Ended Nuclear Arms Control Examine the origins of great power competition in the Cold War. In the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union were locked in a ...
At the height of the Cold War, U.S. partners could reliably count on U.S. military or intelligence support for any number of actions if they were sold as vital to counter communism. This included coup ...
During December 2025, the Editorial Board of the New York Times published several articles “on why the US military needs to reinvent itself.” It described the state of US military as “Overmatched,” ...
In President Donald Trump’s “America First” mindset, allies are afterthoughts and previous US presidents were stupid.
As recently as a decade ago, it would not have been hard to unite a broad majority of Republicans and Democrats around a shared idea of what America’s military power should be for. Defense of the ...
Many Cold War weapons remain in U.S. service because modernization proved faster and cheaper than replacement. Platforms like the B-52 and M2 Browning endure because no newer system matches their ...