1+ hour, 32+ min ago  (155+ words) The 2026 FIFA Men's World Cup is now well underway, bringing 48 countries' teams to compete in a soccer tournament co-hosted by the United States, Mexico, and Canada. With teams from every continent except Antarctica, the 2026 tournament is a truly global event....

4+ hour, 18+ min ago  (150+ words) In 2024, Emilian Kavalski and Claris Diaz argued in "Beyond Tik Tok " The National Security Risks of Chinese Agricultural Drones" that the national debate over foreign social media platforms risked becoming too narrow, potentially causing Washington to overlook other foreign technologies…...

11+ hour, 3+ min ago  (100+ words) There are no wonder weapons, no perfect strategies, no ways to assign financial resources to every possible contingency. What remains are trade-offs, and the need to anticipate and mitigate them as prudently as possible " because in this business, the costs…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1011+ words) When everyone is accountable, who is actually responsible? When all is said and done, these reforms will only work if implementation addresses uncertainty. The memo places four innovation organizations responsible for creating, accelerating, and adopting commercial technology under the authority…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago  (275+ words) Editor's Note: This is a new occasional series brought to you by War on the Rocks. If you would like to pitch your own version, please refer to the contact information and guidance on our submissions page. The Vietnam War…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago  (931+ words) Editor's note: This is part of a running series of essays by Iskander Rehman, entitled "Applied History," which seeks, through the study of the history of strategy and military operations, to better illuminate contemporary defense challenges. " Lord Charles Moran, Winston…...

6+ day, 11+ hour ago  (548+ words) I argue for a shared defense and diplomatic shield designed for limited trust, without requiring one army, one foreign ministry, or a supranational bureaucracy. Such a shield would be modular enough to survive disputes, bounded enough to protect sovereignty, auditable…...

1+ week, 11+ hour ago  (401+ words) Wargaming can be used by the Department of Defense to deliver evidence-based acquisition policy reforms focused on mobilizing industrial base capacity and capability in a crisis. Yet resolving this coordination deficit will require a concerted effort to link policy, law,…...

1+ week, 11+ hour ago  (165+ words) Given the inconclusiveness of the May 2026 Trump-Xi summit and absence of any concrete framework for tariffs or export controls, the most reliable deterrence remains the Western-led critical supply chains that bind China to chokepoints it cannot control. But the trajectory…...

1+ week, 11+ hour ago  (496+ words) Washington is littered with the corpses of grand plans to restore the Merchant Marine. The Trump administration's Maritime Action Plan is the latest attempt, and to its credit, the most comprehensive since World War II. Enter what I call the Mahan…...