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Escalation talk surrounding a potential U.S. bombing campaign against Iran rests on a familiar premise: that sufficient military bombardment can ...

Silicon Valley has recently discovered defense as a growth market. Venture-backed firms now promise to “disrupt” military procurement, accelerate weapons ...

Recent reports of preliminary negotiations for a military alliance of Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan raise underappreciated risks. Similar concerns ...

Until very recently, nuclear proliferation was treated primarily as a problem of rogue states, revisionist regimes, or localized regional instability. ...

For much of the post-WWII era, the United States maintained a set of institutional boundaries designed to govern the use ...

American militarism is usually discussed as something that happens “over there.” Foreign wars, overseas bases, expeditionary forces, and interventions conducted ...

The Philippines is often described as a country afflicted by a succession of internal conflicts: colonial rebellion, communist insurgency, separatist ...

Armed conflict across Africa is routinely explained as the aftermath of colonialism, the meddling of external powers, the spread of ...

For thirty years, American foreign policy has been guided by a ghost. It went by different names like primacy, unipolarity, ...

This article examines how the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) evolved from the most imaginative and consequential technological incubator ...