Foreign Policy In Focus

The images coming out of Luanda and Douala this weekend offer a striking contrast to the rhetoric emanating from Washington. While the White House continues its verbal offensive against Pope Leo XIV, labeling his calls for de-escalation in the Iran conf...

The source of Russia’s global power derives not from sophisticated technology, an advanced service sector, or a cadre of entrepreneurs. Russia’s power is almost entirely backward-looking. Its geopolitical position rests on a base of prehistoric vegetation.

That vegetation, of course, has ended up as Russia’s reserves of oil, natural gas, and coal. About

Right at this moment, we are witnessing an unprecedented shift of resources from domestic investments in the United States to the military-industrial complex (aka the war machine). The only comparable period in our history was the buildup to World War II, when the United States confronted a powerful adversary in Nazi Germany with designs to control not just Europe, but ...

Revolutionary movements rarely end heroically, a point underscored recently by India’s interior minister, Amit Shah. In the Indian parliament on March 30, he declared the country “Na...

In a future crisis between India and Pakistan, the most dangerous moment may not be the first strike but the minutes before it.

Artificial intelligence is beginning to compress those minutes.

Across modern battlefields, AI-enabled systems are accelerating how militaries detect, process, and act on information. What once took hours—or days—can now unfold in near ...