The Controversial Past of Ukraine’s Newest Heroes
This summer, Ukraine’s high command gambled by redeploying the recently created 1st Azov Corps, a special forces unit comprising five brigades including the elite Azov Brigade, to the vicinity of ...
Tag: Military
Trump plans to crash Hegseth’s ‘very nice’ mystery meeting with top generals
WASHINGTON — President Trump plans to crash Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s gathering of the military’s top generals at Marine Corps Base Quantico on Tuesday. Hegseth recently summoned the top ...
US preps for attacks against drug lords deep inside Venezuela as tensions flare: report
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is reportedly drafting plans to strike drug traffickers inside Venezuela, potentially in weeks, marking a major escalation from targeting the cartel in boats in the ...
Canada Is NATO’s Soft Underbelly
In September 2021, Russia and Belarus launched Zapad (or “West”)—a massive military exercise on NATO’s eastern flank, near the borders of Lithuania and Poland. It included around 200,000 troops, 80 ...
Trump’s Aim to Take Back Afghan Air Base Doesn’t Make Sense
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. The highlights this week: U.S. President Donald Trump escalates a demand that the Taliban hand over Bagram Airfield, South Asian leaders arrive in New ...
What the Pakistan-Saudi Arabia Pact Means for South Asia
Pakistan and Saudi Arabia signed a defense pact last week that provides mutual security guarantees. The agreement is likely to have ramifications for South Asia, as it comes as a ...
‘Super-Sparta’ Is Bad History and Bad Strategy
“We Jews are still here, but where are the ancient Greeks?” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked me, a classical historian, this question 10 years ago when we met at ...
‘He Died the Way He Lived, Speaking the Truth’: Pete Hegseth Remembers Charlie Kirk’s Legacy
State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, became the site of Charlie Kirk’s memorial on Sunday, where tens of thousands listened to War Secretary Pete Hegseth and other leaders reflect on ...
Taiwan’s Message to Trump and the U.N.: ‘We’re Not a Freeloader’
The last time Foreign Policy sat down with Alexander Tah-ray Yui, he was just months into his new role as the de facto Taiwanese ambassador to Washington—officially known as Taiwan’s ...
Desperate search on after US Army helicopter carrying 4 service members crashes near Washington military base
Authorities are desperately searching for four Army soldiers after their Black Hawk helicopter crashed near a Washington military base Wednesday night. The US Army MH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashed during ...
