Nuclear weapons are not going to suddenly disappear. But they might create a more dangerous world in which countries are ...

Amy Nelson, a senior fellow at New America, explains that minimal deterrence may still be possible in a multipolar world, but ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pope Leo XIV waves as he leaves after his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, Wednesday, Dec.17, 2025.

Securing a meaningful defense topline for FY‑2027 is not an act of militarism; it is an act of prudence. The strategic ...

The NDS-26 takes this position of strength, mostly revealing the power of U.S. conventional forces, not only as an objective to be achieved but also as a given reality of the U.S. Armed Forces. This ...

Russian troops block the Ukrainian military base in Perevalne during its 2014 annexation of Crimea. UC Davis political scientists have received a U.S. Department of Defense grant to study when ...

Current and aspiring nuclear great powers (the United States, Russia, and China), together with other comparatively small nuclear weapons states (either declared or widely acknowledged as such), are ...

We will go to war with what we have, not what we want. If America has to fight, American AI Logistics will be sure our ...

“Long live deterrence to dissuade nuclear attacks” blasted the headline on Gwynne Dyer’s December 6, 2021 column in The Hill Times. And then came this subheader: “It’s not absolutely foolproof, but it ...

While there has been discussion about whether today’s security environment constitutes a “neo-Cold War,” the reality is that it is actually more complex than the Cold War. For most of the period ...

If America narrows its focus to China and Russia, then it encourages belligerence by other actors. This increased aggressiveness will create new opportunities in cyberspace for the Chinese and ...

At the change of command for the Indo-Pacific region in Pearl Harbor last spring, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced his concept of "integrated deterrence" as "the cornerstone of defense to ...