Welcome to The Adversarial. Every other week, we’ll provide you with expert analysis on America’s greatest challengers: China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, ...
What if the biggest variable in whether China attacks Taiwan is how many directions New Delhi is forced to look at once? When considering a Taiwan ...
In a corporate boardroom reviewing a high-stakes multinational deal, every financial risk was dissected ­— but no one in the room could see the classified ...
Congress has unintentionally shifted the burden of preventing an unconstitutional war squarely onto the military. By failing to exercise its war powers, ...
On Feb. 28, the United States and Israel launched coordinated but separately named military campaigns against Iran — the ...
The Manhattan Project brought allied scientists to Los Alamos because winning required pooling allied scientific capacity.
In his 2025 article, “Start Making Sense, Strategy and Grand Strategy in the Trump Administration,” Joshua Rovner argued Trump’s flexible approach to a ...
As I conclude nearly four decades of military and public service, including as lieutenant governor of Guam, a line from the 1986 Crowded House song “Don’t ...
In contemporary South Asian crises, velocity matters more than military power. Velocity means how fast responsibility is assigned, actions are authorized, ...
On Feb. 28, the United States and Israel launched major, ongoing strikes against Iran — including killing Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and many other ...
Is publicly confronting the likely next prime minister of Iraq the right strategy for the United States? The nomination of ...
What changes when China’s leader finally states a reserve currency ambition explicitly? Xi Jinping has now done so, calling ...