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Feb 8, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Ebenezer Obadare |Michelle Gavin |Scott Snyder
Last fall, former U.S. Secretary of Defense Bob Gates took to the pages of Foreign Affairs to issue a warning: with America facing the most dangerous geopolitical landscape in decades, dysfunction in Washington threatened to turn that danger into disaster. Today, Russia and China are testing the international order. Iranian proxies are attacking U.S. forces on a daily basis.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Steven Friedman |Ebenezer Obadare |Michelle Gavin |Scott Snyder
To many around the world, South Africa’s choice to take Israel to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), accusing it of genocide, came as a surprise. It seemed odd to them that a faraway African country would try to intervene in Israel’s military operations in the Gaza Strip.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Mark Cancian |Ebenezer Obadare |Michelle Gavin |Scott Snyder
When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Kyiv’s maritime prospects looked bleak. Ukraine had inherited a small number of ships when the Soviet Union broke apart, but Russia destroyed or confiscated most of these when it occupied Crimea in 2014. Then, in 2018, Russia seized three of Ukraine’s remaining vessels and prevented its civilian ships from entering the Kerch Strait, the waterway separating the Crimean Peninsula from mainland Russia.
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Jan 26, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | David Kaye |Ebenezer Obadare |Michelle Gavin |Scott Snyder
With one eye on the law and the other on its power, the International Court of Justice at The Hague has issued a preliminary ruling in favor of South Africa’s claim that Israel’s military assault on Gaza may plausibly be characterized as genocide.
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Avinash Paliwal |Scott Snyder |Jonathan Masters
Since a military coup in 2021 toppled Myanmar’s democratic government, the country’s army has found itself contending with a tenacious and committed rebel insurgency. The military junta’s opponents are varied and various, including armed organizations representing Myanmar’s many ethnic minorities and militias loyal to the ousted government. Many observers had written off such resistance groups as too fractious and weak to present a genuine challenge to the junta.
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Nov 30, 2023 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Ebenezer Obadare |Scott Snyder
From killer robots to smarter logistics, artificial intelligence promises to change the way the U.S. military fights and develops weapons. As this new technology comes online, the opportunities are coming into focus—but so are the dangers. In a new piece for Foreign Affairs, Michèle Flournoy argues the U.S. military has no choice but to move forward with AI and to do so quickly.
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Jun 24, 2023 | 
foreignaffairs.com | James M. Lindsay |Scott Snyder
Sign in and save to read later Print this article Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Get a link Page url Request Reprint Permissions Stephen Kotkin is a preeminent historian of Russia, a fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and the author of an acclaimed three-volume biography of Joseph Stalin (the third volume is forthcoming).
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May 2, 2023 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Joshua Kurlantzick |Scott Snyder
General Mark Milley has his work cut out for him. As chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he’s helping to guide U.S. strategy in Ukraine. At the same time, he’s trying to figure out how the United States should navigate in a very different world—one where it is no longer the sole superpower; where tension with both Russia and China is growing; and where for the first time in decades, it is all too easy to imagine a great-power war. General Milley, thanks for doing this.
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Apr 28, 2023 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Peter Mattis |Shannon K. O'Neil |Scott Snyder |Will Freeman
Sign in and save to read later Print this article Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Get a link Page url Request Reprint Permissions Over the past few months, as competition with China has intensified, the Biden administration has struggled to provide the United States and its allies with a clear picture of Beijing’s intentions.
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Apr 20, 2023 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Inu Manak |Scott Snyder
There seems to be an unstoppable march toward the automation of work, including the checkout at the supermarket, the seemingly limitless possibilities of ChatGPT, and so much else. What is driving this push toward automation? For one, labor scarcity in developed countries.
