The CIA ’s retraction of intelligence reports should raise concerns about politicization and the Trump administration ...

At times during the Cold War, the United States pursued its interests by switching from confrontation to détente: the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty came just six years after the Cuban missile crisis ...

Growing List of Orban Loyalists Defecting Before Critical Election (Andrew Higgins and Lili Rutai, New York Times) With Prime Minister Viktor Orban seeming vulnerable before Sunday’s vote, criticism ...

Donald Trump Is the War’s Biggest Loser ( Economist) There is a reason he wants an exit from Iran.

The United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( USSR ), the predecessor of Russia, largely shaped the nuclear order that emerged around 1970. The two superpowers engaged in an ...

Preventing an Iranian Bomb Is Only Getting Harder (Eric Brewer, Foreign Policy) A weaker, angrier, more suspicious regime with a less cautious supreme leader and leverage over Hormuz. What could go ...

The Dangers of Hegseth’s “Warfighter” Ethos (Allison McManus, Just Security) Hegseth may present his version of a warfighter as the paragon of U.S. military power, but for all his talk, he fails to ...

The New Era of Militia Influencers (David Gilbert, Wired) The militia movement in the US is undergoing a rebrand that trades counterprotests for expensive weapons, manly sweatshirts, and highly ...

Hegseth’s War on America’s Military (Tom Nichols, The Atlantic) Someone needs to explain the Pentagon purges to the American people.

America Is Now a Rogue Superpower (Robert Kagan, The Atlantic) Washington’s conduct in the Iran war is accelerating global chaos and deepening America’s dangerous isolation. Trump’s Iran Own Goal ...

Why Nuclear Deterrence in Asia Is Collapsing (Patrick M. Cronin, National Interest) Nuclear-armed countries are becoming increasingly comfortable with making nuclear threats while US credibility fades ...

A Complacent America Shrugs Off New War Technologies (Christian Caryl, Foreign Policy) From the president on down, many Americans still do not grasp the implications of drones and other threats. Pete ...