In 2014, the Iraqi army, into which tens of billions of American taxpayer dollars had been invested, collapsed in the face of ...

Donald Trump’s return to the White House could bring a shift in U.S. foreign policy, with significant implications for the ...

U.S. Army War College. At the USAWC, he is the co-editor of the Security Force Assistance Integrated Research Project. He is a recent graduate of St. John’s College in Annapolis, where he studied ...

When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the international community quickly came together ...

Russian information operations in Africa are a tool to expand Russia’s presence on the continent and to turn African countries into allies of Russia in its ...

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Years before Russia started its full-scale war against Ukraine, the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, ...

Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Walter A. McDougall argues powerfully that a pervasive but radically changing faith that “God is on our side” has inspired U.S. foreign policy ever since 1776. The ...

This briskly told history of Reformed Protestantism takes these churches through their entire 500-year history—from sixteenth-century Zurich and Geneva to modern locations as far flung as Seoul and ...

In the late 1970s, the United States often seemed to be a superpower in decline. Battered by crises and setbacks around the globe, its post–World War II international leadership appeared to be ...

H. L. Mencken (1880–1956) was a reporter, literary critic, editor, author — and a famous American agnostic in the twentieth century. From his role in the Scopes Trial to his advocacy of science and ...

In strategic studies and international relations, grand strategy is a frequently-invoked concept. Yet, despite its popularity, it is not well understood and it has many definitions, some of which are ...