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Two F-35B combat aircraft from the United States Marine Corp depart after re-fueling from an RAF Voyager aircraft over the North Sea on October 08, 2020 in flight, above Scotland.

Washington Times: Why China Must Be Excluded from Postwar Ukraine’s Reconstruction and Security Guarantees By Miles Yu September 1, 2025

Chinese honor guards participate in a welcome ceremony in Tianjin, China, on August 31, 2025, as Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives to attend a Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit. (Vladimir Smirnov via Getty Images)

Commentary

Why China Must Be Excluded from Postwar Ukraine’s Reconstruction and Security Guarantees

Miles Yu

Senior Fellow and Director, China Center

Miles Yu

Sep 1, 2025

Commentary

5 Min Read

The Australian: Why Cognitive Warfare Is Beijing’s Greatest Weapon By John Lee and Lavina Lee August 29, 2025

Chinese military personnel take part in a rehearsal ahead of a parade commemorating the eightieth anniversary of victory in World War II in Beijing on August 20, 2025. (Pedro Pardo via Getty Images)

Commentary

Why Cognitive Warfare Is Beijing’s Greatest Weapon

John Lee

Senior Fellow

Lavina Lee

Senior lecturer in the Department of Security Studies and Criminology at Macquarie University, Council of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute 

John Lee & Lavina Lee

Aug 31, 2025

Commentary

8 Min Read

1 Getting a Foot in the Oval Office Door: How Finnish and Italian Defense Investment Paid Off Liselotte Odgaard President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s

European leaders join Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House on August 18, 2025. (Getty Images)

Commentary

Getting a Foot in the Oval Office Door: How Finnish and Italian Defense Investment Paid Off

Liselotte Odgaard

Senior Fellow (Nonresident)

Liselotte Odgaard

Aug 29, 2025

Commentary

4 Min Read

US Air Force F-35A Lightning II aircraft sit on the flight line at Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida on August 28, 2025. (DVIDS)

Commentary

The Business of American Military Deterrence

Shyam Sankar

Trustee

Shyam Sankar

Aug 29, 2025

Commentary

1 Min Read

Graduates listen to a student speaker during the 257th Commencement Ceremony at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, on May 25, 2025. (Joseph Prezioso via Getty Images)

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon on June 22, 2025. (Andrew Harnik via Getty Images)

Commentary

Dropping the Bomb on JCIDS

Shyam Sankar

Trustee

Shyam Sankar

Aug 29, 2025

Commentary

4 Min Read

(School of War)

Podcast

What Caused the US to Fail in Vietnam?

Aaron MacLean

Senior Fellow

Aaron MacLean

Aug 29, 2025

Podcast

Ukraine Military Situation Report August 27 Hudson Institute

A sunflower grows in front of a house damaged by a Russian drone attack in Dnipro, Ukraine. (Mykola Miakshykov via Getty Images)

Commentary

Ukraine Military Situation Report | August 27

Can Kasapoğlu

Senior Fellow (Nonresident)

Can Kasapoğlu

Aug 27, 2025

Commentary

3 Min Read

Danish Institute for International Studies: Divided, They Rule? The Emerging Landscape of Banditry in Northwest Nigeria By James Barnett August 27, 2025

A member of the Yan Sakai vigilante group poses for a portrait at the Zamfara state government house on December 3, 2019, in northwestern Nigeria. (Kola Sulaimon via Getty Images)

Commentary

Divided, They Rule? The Emerging Landscape of Banditry in Northwest Nigeria

James Barnett

Research Fellow

James Barnett

Aug 27, 2025

Commentary

2 Min Read

In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Vladimir Putin enters a hall to meet with graduates of higher military educational institutions at the Kremlin on June 23, 2025. (Alexander Kazakov via Getty Images)

Commentary

How Europe Can Make Putin Pay

Peter Rough

Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Europe and Eurasia

Peter Rough

Aug 26, 2025

Commentary

6 Min Read

A microchip and Taiwanese flag displayed on a phone screen are seen in this multiple exposure illustration photo on April 10, 2023. (Jakub Porzycki via Getty Images)

Reports

Resilience Is Deterrence: Why Taiwan’s Cyber Weakness Is a Strategic Risk

Jason Hsu

Senior Fellow

Joseph Saunders

RunSafe Security, CEO

Jason Hsu & Joseph Saunders

Aug 25, 2025

Reports

5 Min Read

An Israeli soldier attaches a Druze flag to the antenna of a Humvee along a barbed-wire fence in the Golan Heights near the Druze village of Majdal Shams on July 19, 2025. (Jalaa Marey via Getty Images)

Podcast

Why Is Israel Invested in the Fate of Syria’s Druze?

Jonathan Hessen

Former Nonresident Senior Fellow

Jonathan Hessen

Aug 25, 2025

Podcast

President Donald Trump leads President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other European leaders in the Cross Hall of the White House on August 18, 2025. (Aaron Schwartz via Getty Images)

Commentary

What Western Security Guarantees for Ukraine Might Look Like