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Trump’s threats and hectoring have rattled Europe, but growing defense budgets and lasting mutual interests mean the alliance is more likely to endure than to collapse.

The Kennedy administration’s decision to seek the ouster of South Vietnam’s president intensified the country’s political instability and deepened the U.S. involvement in what became the Vietnam War.

Its operational base may be as ebullient as ever, but members of the #EndSARS generation have been pulled in different directions.

A war that began with U.S. ambitions to seize Canada led to the burning of the White House and the Capitol Building.

A new Council on Foreign Relations report finds that long production timelines and supply chain bottlenecks—worsened by munitions stocks depleted in the Iran conflict—mean the United States must enact policy reforms and scale precise mass capabilities to counter China in the next…

Nuclear energy is gaining momentum as countries seek reliable, low-emission power sources to meet increasing electricity demand and climate goals amid uncertainty in fossil fuel markets. Its revival renews long-standing debates over safety and nuclear proliferation.

Sowing doubt about the U.S. commitment to alliances in East Asia could upend the military and strategic balance in the region and undermine U.S. interests in the process.

Actions by advanced economies to limit rising government bond yields are unlikely to be durable without additional policy change or a material economic slowdown—but the first is unlikely and the second is unwanted.

The war against Iran has shown that Pentagon’s reliance on hard-to-produce hi-tech weapons creates a vulnerability in a world in which quantity may overwhelm quality.

We Discuss: Mentioned on the Episode: Rush Doshi, Erin D. Dumbacher, William Henagan, Michael C. Horowitz, and Samuel Lazarus, “Out of Ammo: A Two-Year Sprint to Rebuild the American Arsenal and Deter China,” Council on Foreign Relations “One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R.1),” U.S.…

Trump’s abrupt rollback of joint military exercises with South Korea is the latest in a series of actions draining Asian allies’ confidence in U.S. security commitments—and hands China another opening to exploit.

What to make of Zambia’s 2026 general elections?

The CIA’s Operation Ajax helped push Iran toward autocracy and encouraged U.S. presidents to approve other covert efforts to oust governments they disliked.

CFR’s press fellow explains how he went from chasing stories across Asia at age twenty-two to writing one of Washington’s top foreign affairs newsletters—and now pens his own column for The New Yorker.

Executive Summary The United States is increasingly ill-equipped to deter or defeat Chinese aggression in the Western Pacific, particularly a potential invasion or blockade of Taiwan. The U.S. military no longer possesses the requisite quantity of warfighting systems—nor the indu…

Debt crises in Senegal, Indonesia, and the United Kingdom offer warnings and lessons for the U.S.’ fiscal challenges.

This week on The Spillover, Rebecca Patterson and Sebastian Mallaby weigh the competitors in the global artificial intelligence race, drawing on Patterson’s new chapter for the book Geopolitics of AI.  Patterson opens with a deliberately provocative stance: “I think it…

Despite undeniable progress, insecurity in Nigeria remains by and large intractable.

New reporting indicates that Trump’s boat strike program could be more secretive, larger, and more resistant to oversight than previously known.

The order reduces the number of childhood vaccines recommendations and separates measles, mumps, and rubella into different shots.

A defense pact between Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey shows how far U.S. influence in the Middle East has eroded—and how regional powers are now shaping their own security order.

Long, mysterious absences promote the idea that unaccountable forces are at the levers of power.

Sadanand Dhume has both sprinted as a foreign correspondent and endured the marathon of writing two books. The new senior fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia sat down with CFR to share insights from his experiences covering the economy, extremism, and international relatio…