Madeleine Albright once asked Colin Powell, “What’s the point of having this superb military you’re always talking about if we can’t use it?” Nobody ever asked that question about nuclear weapons. Not ...

At a summit on Thursday, Prime Minister Keir Starmer and President Emmanuel Macron also announced a “one in, one out” pilot ...

D efense Secretary Pete Hegseth proclaimed that “deterrence is back” and warned that foreign adversaries should listen to President Trump in the wake of the strikes against Iran’s three ...

He instinctively understands the art of deterrence, whereas Mr. Biden and Ms. Harris have consistently, if perhaps unintentionally, undermined this traditional pillar of U.S. strategy.

Journal Editorial Report: Paul Gigot interviews Gen. Jack Keane (Ret.) Joe Biden’s Presidency began to decline the day he abandoned Afghanistan to the Taliban. American deterrence collapsed, and ...

The disarmament community in their pursuit of global zero makes a number of faulty assumptions. For example, they assume all retaliatory uses of nuclear weapons will quickly lead to the ...

The IRGC-AF leg of the deterrence stool doesn’t look as good as it once did. Operation True Promise—the April 2024 attack with ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and drones—did minimal damage.

The DETERRENCE Act, sponsored by Sens. Joni Ernst, Elissa Slotkin, Jim Banks and Maggie Hassan, would crack down on crimes in the U.S. that are done on behalf of foreign countries.

The recent U.S. airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities—specifically at Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan—mark a significant escalation in an already volatile regional standoff. The attacks ...

Thirty years ago, in October 1994, the U.S. Border Patrol announced a new policy called “Prevention Through Deterrence.” The goal was to prevent migrants from crossing the border illegally ...