Patrick M. Walsh, former Commander US Pacific Fleet & Vice Chief of Naval Operations, is Co-Founder of First Watch Group, an aero-space and defense consulting company.

China’s reaction to the U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear capabilities confirms Beijing’s view of Iran as an expendable appendage of its common interest network. This can best be understood through the ...

Sami Omari is an Afghan-born international relations, diplomatic and policy consultant with extensive experience alongside ...

Iran and Israel have been at odds since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, when the new Islamic Republic declared Israel to be illegitimate and pursued a confrontational strategy. Tensions have increased ...

At the direction of President Donald Trump, U.S. armed forces conducted an attack against Iran, Operation Midnight Hammer. The President’s decision to launch the attack was made without seeking or ...

The major news headlines of the day often focus on Ukraine, the Middle East and China, rarely mentioning Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) — a terrorist group linked to al-Qaeda and rapidly ...

China's relentless disinformation campaign against Taiwan is escalating, using AI and deepfakes to manipulate public ...

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Mykola Volkivskyi is the President of the Geneva Center for Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution, a political analyst, and a ...

On the sidelines of the recent ASEAN conference in Malaysia, Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with his Chinese counterpart, Foreign Minister Wang Yi. Rubio announced that the talks had been ...

Today, the Central Intelligence Agency faces a crisis of trust. While CIA officers have long confronted adversaries abroad, the Agency now finds itself navigating an increasingly politicized ...