North Korean leader Kim Jong Un announced plans to strengthen the country's nuclear deterrent at the upcoming Workers' Party ...

Donald Trump has rolled out America’s stark new National Defense Strategy. Europeans need to be prepared to take control of ...

The Trump administration’s newly released National Defense Strategy (NDS), unveiled on the 23rd (local time), has sparked ...

Between the Ukraine War and Operation Midnight Hammer, nuclear deterrence once again proved itself to be the defining issue ...

The Cold War ended in 1991. The United States’ commitment to prevent its adversaries’ nuclear ambitions and to extend its nuclear arsenal as an umbrella of protection to its partners has remained ...

As a contributor to that Joint Staff effort, I have been revisiting that experience since the Department of Defense issued ...

The term “extended deterrence (nuclear umbrella)” was omitted from the Trump administration’s new National Defense Strategy (NDS). It was also absent from the National Security Strategy (NSS), the top ...

The puzzle of nuclear deterrence is now further muddied by the emergence of cyber threats and their nebulous role in conflict escalation. As doctrine continues to be shaped, there is the ongoing risk ...

A Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement was signed in September between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. According to media and policy ...

At its current production rates, China is likely to have a far more menacing submarine force than Russia in short order—though its quality is still uncertain.

Brett McGurk is a CNN global affairs analyst who served in senior national security positions under Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden. In the summer of 2022, I ...

BURNS — In an underground facility northwest of Burns, dedicated 90th Missile Wing defenders conduct essential nuclear deterrence operations. The Alpha-01 Missile Alert Facility (MAF) hosts one of the ...