Japan’s pivot should be widely welcomed in Washington, which has long sought to get its wealthy East Asian ally to spend more on defense. These moves are designed to strengthen the alliance, as ...

During the 1984 “tanker war,” Iran laid mines in the Strait of Hormuz and harassed ships in response to Iraqi attacks. Throughout both these conflicts, however, the Strait of Hormuz remained in use.

The control of waterways has long been used to thwart adversaries and shape strategic outcomes. In 1951, after Tehran nationalized its oil industry, the United Kingdom used naval pressure to prevent ...

ROBERTS is Reader in Middle East Security Studies at King’s College London, Head of the King’s Institute for Applied Security Studies, and the author of Security Politics of the Gulf Monarchies. The U ...

Of course, no historical analogies are perfect, and there are many obvious differences between the conflicts in Iran and Vietnam: different regions, different ideologies at play, a much shorter time ...

On February 22, cartel boss Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho,” was killed in a hideout in the town of Tapalpa, a well-known tourist center in Mexico’s Jalisco state. The Mexican ...

In the recent Bulgarian elections, for instance, the political party of the former president, Rumen Radev, whom Western media describe as a Russophile and Euroskeptic, ran and won on an anticorruption ...

Tensions increased further in April, when American cardinals joined Leo in challenging the morality of war against Iran. Trump crudely assailed the pope on social media, denigrating him as “WEAK on ...

Article link: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/podcasts/does-trump-have-strategyhttps://www.foreignaffairs.com/podcasts/does-trump-have-strategy Both of Donald Trump ...

VANDA FELBAB-BROWN is Director of the Initiative on Nonstate Armed Actors, Co-Director of the Africa Security Initiative, and a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. An expert on internal ...