Emerging Risks

In The Australian newspaper on Monday, Hugh White gave us a picture of democratic defeat in the face of overwhelming Chinese dominance should war break out over Taiwan. ‘Going to war with China,’ he says, ...

The fact that war can be fought in so many ways in the 21st century might reduce the need for actual military conflict.

Part one of Sky News Australia’s documentary – China Rising – delves into Chinese President Xi Jinping’s mission to topple the United States and become the w...

As Iran's nuclear programme forges ahead, some see Israel running out of options to thwart it.

NATO countries say Russia’s military movements threaten Kyiv, though Russian President Vladimir Putin’s plans remain unclear.

One expert called Russian military movements "symptomatic of a military that is preparing itself for this very real possibility."

Why are progressive regions of the country—especially in the old major liberal cities (e.g., Chicago, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle)—institutionalizing de facto…

The Kremlin’s sharpened rhetoric is accompanied by what some experts believe to be the early signs of Russia’s growing preparedness to escalate the military conflict in eastern Ukraine.

Iran has not acknowledged the attack, but U.S. and Israeli officials said it was retaliation for Israeli airstrikes, drawing the U.S. into Iran’s shadow war with Israel.

The long arm of Iranian terror reaches Colombia. Some Colombian pundits and politicians... refer to Iran as a normal democratic nation looking to engage in trade and diplomacy... instead of as an Islamist revolutionary regime that uses terrorism as part

Policies on ‘sole purpose’ or ‘no first use’ sound appealing but would weaken security guarantees

General Sir Nick Carter says action along Belarus-Poland border is straight out of ‘Russian playbook’

"Man, drones are awesome. They are so good at what they do," a Green Beret told Insider. "Everyone loves them."

It was already a dangerous race: China versus the United States, each pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into missiles, submarines, warplanes and ships, vying to dominate the Indo-Pacific. Now that race may be going nuclear.

A study says Tokyo’s recent activities indicate it has discussed the scenario with the US and wants to deter Beijing from any attempt to seize the island.

Defence Minister Peter Dutton has warned war between China and Australia would be “devastating” as he described the communist superpower as an existential threat to the region.

Chinas unprecedented nuclear weapons build up has raised the risk of war with the US and provided the Peoples Liberation Army with the confidence to invade Taiwan, according to a new report by an influential US Congressional commission.

In the stretch of Europe from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea, where Moscow and the West have competed for influence for decades, the threat of a new military conflict is growing.

China is expanding its nuclear arsenal, a move that might lead China to take more risks with its conventional forces.

A top Pentagon official recently warned China could soon become capable of launching a "surprise" nuclear attack against the United States.

Calls grow for a global planetary defense strategy as thousands of near-Earth asteroids are discovered each year.

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The Thucydides Trap states that when a rising power meets a waning one, war becomes inevitable. But China-US relations are more complicated than a simple power battle, writes Stan Grant.

Experts discuss with Newsweek what would happen next if China invades Taiwan.

A new book argues that the media’s moral panic about race has distracted Americans from the chasm of class.

Kevin Mandia says Iran has upped its hacking game and is "has gotten good at leapfrogging" U.S. cybersecurity in an asymmetric war the U.S. is poised to lose.

Iran’s military drone program has grown in recent years and Iran-backed groups have increasingly used drones in conflicts.

It's not enough to build a nuclear weapon, but Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium (HEU) has substantially exceeded the limitations agreed to under the 2015 Iran Deal.

NATO, the U.S. Government, and all other “neoconservatives” (adherents to Cecil Rhodes’s 1877 plan for a global U.S. empire that would be run, behind the scenes, by the UK’s aristocracy) have been treating Russia, China, and Iran, as being their enemies. In consequence of this: Russia, China, and Iran, have increasingly been coordinating their international […]

Monday’s summit between Xi and Biden addressed everything from trade to security and human rights, but resolved nothing.