David Maxwell of Small Wars Journal discussed U.S.–North Korea negotiations with Voice of America–Korea on October 8, 2026.

High Powered Microwaves (HPM) have emerged as the primary EMP weapon nations are pursuing to counter drones due to their effectiveness and practically infinite magazine capacity. Once these systems ...

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The Force Modernization Model proposes a model for understanding modernization based on two dimensions. This framework is not offered to criticize ongoing modernization efforts, but to describe the ...

The group has gone four years without naming a leader. On the 25 th anniversary of 9/11, it reached for the founder’s son instead. Al-Adel’s own writings dominate the video’s message. Prominent among ...

Written by former Afghan National Security Advisor Hamdullah Mohib and award-winning investigative journalist Tam Hussein, Shadows Over Kabul: An Insider’s Account of the Fall of the Afghan Republic ...

More than three years into the largest interstate war in Europe since 1945, the Russo-Ukrainian conflict has become the most closely observed and most instructive military laboratory of the 21st ...

Who Inherits Power When a Political Order Falls? Throughout political history, a scene seems to play out time and time again. We seldom recognize it as it unfolds. A regime falls. The tyrant is ...

There are four clear challenges that the United States faces regarding Iran: (1) Iran controlling the Strait of Hormuz; (2) Iran’s missiles and drones; (3) Iran’s terrorist proxies; and (4) Iran ...

For decades, a persistent argument in China studies has held that democracy is fundamentally incompatible with Chinese civilization. China, this argument suggests, has always valued hierarchy over ...

In the aftermath of the 2023 Maui wildfires, numerous rumors emerged online regarding the causes of the disaster and the government’s response. Initial speculation about emergency warning failures and ...