Iran is trying to bolster its "battered deterrence" after a general vowed to respond "decisively and destructively" to any threats in the wake of U.S. strikes against Yemen’s Houthi rebels, an expert ...

Every age had its own kind of war, its own limiting conditions, and its own peculiar preconceptions,” the defense theorist Carl von Clausewitz wrote in the early nineteenth century. There is no doubt ...

Your adversaries and closest allies might not need nuclear weapons to achieve deterrence — they just need you to believe they could build them at any moment. This strategy, which I detailed in a new ...