Comparing the U.S., China, and Russia reveals how money, technology, and global reach matter more than sheer force size in ...

The Pentagon considers China to be a long-term “pacing challenge” and has responded by boosting cooperation with regional ...

Air defense power stems from a system's ability to find and take out a threat, putting mission effectiveness above ...

These two countries have long been contentious military powers in the Middle East, with each building up impressive arsenals of aircraft and other assets Recent hostilities between Israel and Iran ...

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China’s military buildup has reached what a new congressional report calls a "war footing," with hundreds of new missile silos and expanding nuclear capabilities that could erode America’s ...

The People’s Liberation Army is growing stronger along four main axes. The United States and its allies must carefully examine how best to confront these strengths. Rarely does a week go by without ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Over the past fifteen years, China has increasingly become the dominant military ...

The power of the US military will be sharply on display this weekend – on two different coasts and in two very different ways. But the spectacle on the Potomac will compete for attention with the use ...

But shortly after Trump's remarks, Rodriguez appeared on state television flanked by her brother, the head of the national ...

The United States has retained its position as the world’s most powerful military in the 2025 Global Military Strength Index, published by Global Firepower. Israel and Iran, two key players in the ...

President Donald Trump said Sunday that U.S. military strength would be “instantly obliterated” without his tariffs, also claiming the nation would be “completely destroyed.” A U.S. Court of Appeals ...