Emerging Risks

Russian media outlets have asked viewers if they're ready for nuclear war.

Russian media outlets have asked viewers if they're ready for nuclear war.

Bloomberg News reports that "Russian state television is back on a war footing," as tensions over the collapse of the Syrian ceasefire mount.

Russia has warned citizens that a nuclear war with the West could be imminent - sparked by clashes in the Middle East. Officials said on Friday that underground shelters had been built which could house 12 milion people - enough for the entire population of Moscow. Russia has clashed with the Western

China is likely to fall into the same economic trap as Japan did to muddle along with sluggish growth as it hesitates to deal with the overcapacity and...

Conditions seem ripe for a military clash between Washington and Beijing over the South China Sea.

The military of China underwent a restructuring last year in a bid to prepare its military for conflict, the Pentagon said in its latest annual assessment.

NATO officials argued that Moscow was dangerously blurring the line between conventional and nuclear war.

Looking at military exercises shows how something called the security dilemma puts Europe at risk.

War games show NATO’s eastern flank is vulnerable. To deter Moscow, the United States will need to deploy heavy armor on a large scale, a…

Here comes Air-Sea-Swarm Battle?

"To be caught in Thucydides’s Trap...does not mean that war is fated."

Edward Lucas reviews “Putinism” by Walter Laqueur and “Putin’s Russia” edited by Leon Aron.

Here come Moscow's robots.

The 1987 Treaty between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles—known as the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty—was one of the most significant arms-reduction accomplishments of the Cold War era.

Russia had all but disappeared from the international arena in the last couple of weeks, particularly following the July 14 signing of the international de-nuclearization deal reached with Iran. Indeed, as long as the pause in the Ukraine war holds, Moscow’s opinions on international relations attract little attention because its ability to influence key global matters has shrunk to irrelevance. …

On April 21, the Center hosted an event to discuss the new National Interest cover story “Russia and America: Stumbling to War,” by Graham Allison, Director ...

The odds of a war, while remote, are no longer negligible.

Australia, India, Japan and the US are all stepping up wargames in the Indo-Pacific in response to China's sabre rattling over disputed islands in the South and East China Sea.

As the Minsk accord seems to collapse, new military dangers loom.

As America lurches from crisis to crisis, our foreign policy elites can't even agree on our principal adversary

A growing chorus of analysts and policymakers are sounding the alarm. Will the world hear them in time?

Russian President Vladimir Putin has memorably called the breakup of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics a tragedy, and that has led many to believe that he is hoping to restore the old USSR as he consolidates control within Russia and projects military power outward into Ukraine and beyond

Could a U.S. response to Russia’s actions in Ukraine provoke a confrontation that leads to a U.S.-Russian war?

Despite the Obama-Xi handshake deal, the probability of confrontation will only heighten as long as the PLA remains a black box.

COLORADO SPRINGS: We’ve known for some time that China conducted an anti-satellite test July 23 last year, but we learned today that that test was “successful” even if it didn’t destroy anything. China has successfully placed low earth orbit satellites at risk, Air Force Lt. Gen. Jay Raymond told an overflow audience at the annual Warfighters Lunch at the Space Symposium here. “Soon every satellite in every orbit will be able to be held at risk,” the head of the 14th Air Force said. China has claimed the test was for missile defense and noted that nothing was destroyed in the test. Raymond ...

World War III may not be as unlikely as you think.

In The Wall Street Journal, Garry Kasparov writes that Islamists set the time machine to the Dark Ages. Putin dreams of czarist Russia. A common enemy: America.

Below is a transcript of tonight's monologue Russia has been chipping away at a master plan, a plan that few, if any, have even taken note of, and no one has shown you. You know the history. We’ve shown it to you, and the brain behind it all. Tonight, we’re going to try to show you what possibly co...

U.S. currently lacks strategy to counter political, information warfare threats from states and terrorists