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War on the Rocks On Aug. 22, ISIL’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi issued his first message to his followers in nearly a year, calling on them to carry out lone-wolf attacks in the West. The message should alarm policymakers...

Majalla Sixty years ago, on August 23, 1958, Mao Zedong’s People’s Liberation Army launched over 40,000 rounds of artillery at the island of Kinmen (also known as Quemoy), which was controlled by Chiang Kai-shek’s Republic of China (ROC). This...

The American Interest Turkey and the U.S.-Turkey bilateral relationship have been much in the news of late. Foreign countries and bilateral relations do not make news here when everything is okay, so the abundance of coverage clearly indicates that...

The National Interest Since coming to power, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been controversial, to say the least, due in large part to policies and practices which the West sees as openly authoritarian. He also used what an attempted coup...

The Hill The latest Pentagon report to the Congress is a sobering, yet balanced, document. It outlines in great detail, and in some 130 pages, just how far China has come in the past decade and how it continues...

NBC news One of the greatest successes Russia had in 2016 was creating doubt and damaging faith in American institutions — notably, our election system. However, Americans still seem to be confused about the actual threat Russia poses to...

Lawfare For more than a year, Saudi Arabia and its allies—especially the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Egypt, collectively referred to as the Quartet—have led a relentless, and seemingly counterproductive campaign against Qatar in a feckless attempt to bully...

The American Interest The deaths of three Czech soldiers in Afghanistan this month provided both a bracing reminder of the sacrifices being made by our NATO allies in America’s longest-running war, and a counterpoint to disparaging comments about NATO’s...

Axios Russia’s annexation of Crimea propelled President Vladimir Putin’s popularity to stratospheric highs — up to 80% — where it hovered for years. Now, economic stagnation and unpopular policies such as a value-added tax hike and, critically, pension reform...

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Much of the debate over how artificial intelligence (AI) will affect geopolitics focuses on the emerging arms race between Washington and Beijing, as well as investments by major military powers like Russia. And to...