Trevor Filseth

The raid was not militarily significant—but it was proof that planes could take off from ships and attack land targets, giving them a new significance in naval operations.

Somaliland has been practically independent for three decades—and the Trump administration has much to gain from formally recognizing it.

Though Iran’s various exile-based opposition movements share a hatred of the Islamic Republic, their own internal differences have stymied efforts to form a united front against it.

America’s ongoing military campaign in Iran has dispelled lingering illusions about the “liberal international order”—and laid bare the power politics defining the 21st century.

These eight men atop Iran's leadership structure are likely to play an outsized role in the war against America and Israel.

“For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World,” President-elect Donald Trump wrote on December 22, “the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity.” The sentence—tucked into a longer post announcing the appointment of venture capitalist Ken Howery as Trump’s ambassador to Denmark—reignited a firestorm […]

The fall of Mali's military junta will profoundly destabilize West Africa, and potentially its neighbors as well.

Elbridge Colby contends that Europe will always remain dependent on the United States, and should follow America’s directives for its own protection. Europe disagrees.

The US government has empowered America’s AI giants to set their own rules for their models’ use in warfare, without asking or informing the public.

Seventy years ago today marked the beginning of the “Suez crisis”—and the end of the British Empire as a global superpower. What can American strategists learn from it?