ORLANDO, Fla. — After providing support to ground operations in the Middle East for two decades, Air Force Special Operations Command is reinventing how it does business in new contested environments.

There is broad agreement today that the United States has entered a period of strategic competition with China. Great power rivalry is back, after a supposed post-Cold War hiatus. But how does great ...

February 2024, the Department of the Air Force’s senior civilian and military leaders unveiled sweeping plans for reshaping, refocusing, and reoptimizing the Air Force and Space Force to ensure ...

The Diplomat author Mercy Kuo regularly engages subject-matter experts, policy practitioners, and strategic thinkers across the globe for their diverse insights into U.S. Asia policy. This ...

If there’s one thing Joe Biden and Donald Trump agree on, it’s China. Four times already, Biden has broken America’s commitment to strategic ambiguity, saying the U.S. would defend Taiwan if attacked ...

THE STRATEGIC choices we will face after the war in Ukraine ends will depend on when it ends and how it ends. Nonetheless, we can estimate the major challenges to American interests and values and how ...

The concept of “great-power competition” (GPC) is now firmly entrenched at the heart of U.S. defense thinking. Indeed, what was an arcane academic term just a few years ago has now achieved the status ...

Democrats and Republicans alike have greeted the prospect of a long-term rivalry with China as a challenge that will bring out the best of the United States. For years, Washington has touted China as ...