James Kraska is Charles H. Stockton professor of international law and chair of the Stockton Center for International Law at the U.S. Naval War College and John Harvey Gregory lecturer on world ...

Officers in the U.S. armed forces take an oath to the constitution upon commissioning and renew it each time they are promoted to a new rank. In doing so, they pledge their loyalty to the country and ...

Yet while an invasion is the most consequential scenario, we do not think it is the most probable, and treating it as if it is comes at the cost of distraction from the short- and near-term challenges ...

As often happens, however, updating the policy did not fully address three myths and misunderstandings that had built up over time: First, there is a myth that the directive prohibits either some or ...

Canada and U.S. Territorial Expansion The history of U.S. northward expansionism goes back all the way to the Revolutionary War, but it would be wrong to suggest that U.S. policymakers have ...

The truth is that the debate about offensive cyber has been dominated by U.S. voices and U.S. issues. To a large extent, this is understandable. It reflects the geopolitical significance of the United ...

The end of the Cold War gave rise to a balancing act within the world of U.S. naval acquisitions — how to make cuts under falling defense budgets while retaining a sufficient industrial base for the ...

The Arab Spring and its consequences, particularly in Syria, were inseparable from the catastrophe that engulfed Turkey in the 2010s. In this crucial period, Turkey was both a protagonist and a victim ...

Europe’s Transformation in Contact Command and control is not a single piece of technology. It is a complex system that spans from an organization’s structure and processes to the networks, software, ...

These disruptions would be especially ill-timed in light of the widespread paralysis from which the arms control and nonproliferation regimes have already suffered in recent years. The 2019 collapse ...

Is the value of the tank in modern warfare zilch? That’s the lesson many observers are taking from a flood of images depicting Russian tanks mired in the mud, their turrets blown off, having been ...

In War on the Rocks, Caitlin Lee recently presented an updated version of the Gulf War paradigm for deterring a Chinese invasion of Taiwan — and argued against our preferred strategy of air denial.