Welcome to The Adversarial. Every other week, we’ll provide you with expert analysis on America’s greatest challengers: China ...

Loose lips sink ships.” It was catchy, memorable, and above all, true. That wisdom feels incompatible with Silicon Valley’s ...

The United States lost the war against a weapon that almost everyone knows by its acronym: the IED or improvised explosive ...

In 2024, Tom Johansmeyer wrote “Why Natural Catastrophes Will Always Be Worse than Cyber Catastrophes,” where he laid to rest ...

Can America deter China if its warships are stuck in port? Probably not. And the problem is made worse by chronic ...

I served 20 years in the Army and today is the first Veterans Day since joining the War on the Rocks team last year. We ...

As the United States continues to increase its military presence in the Caribbean and to strike boats that the government ...

Popular culture often distorts autonomy into science fiction caricatures. This framing obscures the real challenges and ...

If past is prologue, the Pentagon will soon release its annual report on Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China.