Five years after Kabul fell, the Taliban have proved durable — but the discipline that won the war is hollowing out the state ...

India holds one of the largest rare earth reserve bases outside China and produces almost no magnets, and the distance ...

The Iran war has become the organizing conflict of Middle East geopolitics: American and Israeli strikes, Iranian retaliation by drone and proxy, and a standoff over the Strait of Hormuz that keeps ...

Beneath AI and autonomy lies a second contest: whose standards decide when an allied machine may act, and when its authority ...

If the non-proliferation regime is to survive its present crisis, credible non-nuclear middle powers must move from supporting participants to agenda-setters.

China's PL-17 reaches nearly 400 km to hunt the tankers and AWACS that hold Western air power together — and US and European ...

Mark Carney’s stand against Washington confirms that the global trading system has entered a post-liberal era defined by ...

Taipei, Beijing and Washington all claim to preserve Taiwan's status quo. None of them mean the same thing — and the ...

Great powers rarely lose because an opponent defeats them. They lose because the systems through which they attempt to project power do not respond as expected. The Soviet Union entered Afghanistan ...

Amid the suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty, Pakistan blames India for its water insecurity. A true audit of the crisis starts at home.