Current and aspiring nuclear great powers (the United States, Russia, and China), together with other comparatively small nuclear weapons states (either declared or widely acknowledged as such), are ...

What does conventional arms control mean for how wars end? Even the longest wars terminate, and many conflicts end with some kind of agreement, even if it is unconditional surrender. Yet the term ...

This publication would be inaccurate and incomplete, without the collaboration from the Irregular Warfare Center, The Irregular Warfare Initiative, the U.S. Army Irregular Warfare Proponent, and the U ...

The wars in Ukraine and the Middle East offer many lessons for better understanding, conducting, and countering irregular warfare. 1 On October 7, 2023, the Hamas attack on Israel combined attacks on ...

The views, conclusions, and recommendations in this article are the authors’ own and do not reflect those of the U.S. government. Israel’s air assault on Iran has focused largely on degrading the ...

What if the next war goes nuclear because one side mistakes a conventional missile for a nuclear one, and responds accordingly? This issue of “entanglement,” or the risks of confusing conventional ...