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

U.S. allies have long balanced between leaning on American leadership and resisting its immense gravitational pull: political ...

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

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 ...

A decade into the effort to concretely integrate information warfare into its operations, the Marine Corps appears to be in ...

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 ...

Bletchley Park was more than a place — it was a method. During World War II, the United Kingdom combined science, engineering ...

As China modernizes its military for a forceful reunification with Taiwan, U.S. planners continue to seek insight into how ...

In November 2015, I was five months into commanding the air campaign against the self-proclaimed Islamic State. Operation ...

Shipbuilding is having a moment in Washington. That’s great, but hype doesn’t float boats. Reshoring commercial shipbuilding ...