Since 1997, the U.S. intelligence community has published the unclassified “Global Trends” report every four years to assess different scenarios for our global future and their likely impact on the ...
The world is at an inflection point for intelligence and national security. The explosion of openly available data, paired with artificial intelligence (AI) capable of processing it at scale, is ...
Stretching for 5 miles across the Paraná River between Paraguay and Brazil, Itaipu is one of the world’s most powerful hydroelectric dams. In 2016 alone, the binational facility, which has ...
American presidents have long criticized intelligence assessments. Lyndon B. Johnson derided pessimistic analysis of the Vietnam War. Bill Clinton challenged reports that Iraq wanted to rebuild weapons of mass destruction. ...
When Israel attacked Hezbollah last September with exploding beepers and a broad assassination campaign, one thing that dictated the timing was Israel’s concern that the group was about to discover ...
After centuries of trying to catch up with the West, Russia is now using its influence to reshape the politics of Western countries and erode their foundational commitment to the ...
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. The highlights this week: Chinese students are caught up in Harvard University’s tussle with the Trump administration, China’s defense minister is skipping the premier Asian ...
In December 2023, I noticed something peculiar on satellite imagery of North Korea’s Pyongyang Sunan International Airport: An old Soviet cargo aircraft was being modified with structural pylons above its ...
The Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz famously wrote that war is a “mere continuation of policy by other means,” but he did not mean that war is merely politics. ...
