As it keeps making its case for an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, Israel isn’t being very subtle: Iran will have a nuclear bomb, possibly as early as this year, its leaders suggest; Iran’s ...

An enemy state with explicitly-exterminatory orientations could effectively represent the individual suicide bomber in macrocosm. Whether we like it or not, it is a realistic and powerful image. Prof.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Vladimir Putin has been at it again, rattling the nuclear sabre after a brief hiatus. The Russian president largely fell silent in 2023 once Ukraine’s armed forces became bogged down — no need for ...

For more than a century, U.S. diplomats in Russia have had to fend off propaganda, outright lies, harassment and seduction, often simultaneously. Our envoys have been gulled into damaging concessions, ...

After its nineteenth missile test of the year (so far), the last being a second shot over Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido, and its sixth nuclear weapon test detonation, North Korea is claiming to ...

Deterrence is no substitute for strategy, and there’s danger in confusing the two. A resurgence of debates about deterrence and coercion are necessary given their neglect in post-Cold War foreign ...

In the 1930s, France built impressive fortifications called the Maginot Line to prevent German forces from crossing its eastern border. The line was so impressive that it deterred the Germans from a ...

“A military is built to fight . . . and focus on fighting and fighting to win.” — Xi Jinping at the 19th Party Congress One dilemma (among several) for U.S. strategic thinking is the still-powerful ...

At the change of command for the Indo-Pacific region in Pearl Harbor last spring, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced his concept of "integrated deterrence" as "the cornerstone of defense to ...