Ben Wolfgang, WashT The ability of adversaries to use commercial location data from smartphones to find and target U.S. troops in the Middle East is a "five-alarm fire" that demands...
Ben Wolfgang, WashT The ability of adversaries to use commercial location data from smartphones to find and target U.S. troops in the Middle East is a "five-alarm fire" that demands...
An era of great-power competition has started—but not all would-be competitors qualify.
On May 8, Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan broke a grueling six-month stalemate by passing a landmark $25 billion defense budget, catching many observers off guard. The vote brought sudden end to an agonizing legislative deadlock that had pushed U.S.-Taiwanese relations to the edge. For months, long-
In late February 2026, Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz to foreign shipping. What began as a chaotic wartime closure has, in the past few days, hardened into something more consequential: an official sovereign toll regime, codified in Iranian law, and priced in cryptocurrency.On May 18, Iran operati
Tehran had said it would suspend negotiations over Israeli strikes in Lebanon.