Lawfare recently published two responses—one by Bobby Chesney, the other by Robert Williams and Ben Buchanan—to my Lawfare essay providing a Chinese perspective on the concept of “Defending Forward” adop...

The election of a Democratic House of Representatives begins the process of holding President Trump accountable and brings into focus how, in the years to come, Americans should think about repairing the...

After more than seven and a half years of death and destruction, there is a sense that the Syrian war is coming to an end.

Editor’s Note: The war in Yemen has gone from bad to worse, and pressure is mounting for the United States to cut its support for Saudi Arabia's failed intervention in the country. But the lessons from t...

Over the week of Nov. 12, the military commission in United States v. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed picked up pretrial proceedings from its September sitting. The newly presiding military judge, Col.

On Nov. 23, the Trump administration filed petitions for a writ of certiorari before judgment in three lawsuits challenging its ban on military service by transgender people, preempting rulings by the co...

Last year, we began a polling project intended to serve as a running gauge of the public’s confidence in a variety of institutions on national security matters. We had observed that traditional public po...

The Military Times reported on Nov. 21 that a White House memorandum had authorized the use of force by troops stationed at the U.S.-Mexico border. Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen and Chi...