Aaron Stein, President of the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI), talks with James Swartout, VP of Strategy at Ursa ...

As many in Central and Eastern Europe were emerging from the buoyant aftermath of Hungary’s mid-April 2026 elections, less ...

The German government has released a transformational national defense strategy, underpinned by a longer-term commitment to ...

The Royal Navy is set to take a leading role in a multinational “Hormuz Coalition” to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and ensure safe passage for merchant vessels. Britain brings considerable expertise to ...

After weeks of war, pressure is mounting on the Trump administration to deploy sea and ground forces on an open-ended mission to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the vital waterway connecting Asia with ...

While access, stealth, and targeting remain critical, the limiting factor in a peer conflict is the ability to keep striking and keep defending after the initial salvos. Already two weeks into the war ...

This piece is part of Behind the Front, an FPRI project on the future of US and allied national defense. The views expressed in this article are the authors’ own. A minor power outage in San Francisco ...

“The last Fleet was lost to me for want of Frigates; God forbid this should.” Lord Horatio Nelson, letter to Viscount Castlereagh, Oct. 5, 1805 The US Navy is hitting the reset button on its next ...

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NATO has finally unveiled its new Alliance Maritime Strategy, refreshing a document that had not been publicly updated since 2011. While high-level strategy texts of this kind tend not to be riveting ...

Narrative Intelligence (NARINT), the study and analysis of misinformation and propaganda in open-source media, can show how narratives affect public opinion, trace foreign-sponsored propaganda ...

Atlantic Bastion represents the Royal Navy’s future plan for anti-submarine capabilities, defending the North Atlantic against the threat from the Russian submarine fleet. First formally revealed in ...