President-elect Donald Trump stunned the Pentagon and the broader defense world by nominating Fox News host Pete Hegseth to serve as his defense secretary, tapping someone largely inexperienced and ...

Rubio, 53, is a noted hawk on China, Cuba and Iran, and was a finalist to be Trump's running mate on the Republican ticket last summer. Rubio is the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee ...

To deter war, America must be ready to fight a war. A stronger military means a fully staffed standing force equipped with ...

A decline in U.S. influence in Africa means U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's administration will have to grapple with blind spots in its understanding of a fast-changing continent increasingly ...

Efforts to shore up the economic and political foundations of American democracy must begin now but will take years to come to fruition. In the meantime, Trump should focus on four foreign policy ...

In the United States, support for the spread of freedom and democracy around the world has not reflected any partisan ...

Most U.S. allies are sure to be worried by the choice Americans made on 5. Many observers are confounded by voters’ ...

For the Pentagon, the operational terrain of the military spans the ... as the Commander-in-Chief. The strength of this ...

Those capabilities, it added, are ones that China “believes the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) needs to confront the United ...

Van Riper’s forces were also forbidden from using chemical weapons against the United States, which he considered his country’s “most significant” asymmetric military strength.

This show of strength comes amid concerns about a potential international military operation to reclaim the Yemeni port city of Hodeidah, which is held by the Houthis. Alongside a naval exercise that ...