ISIS is looking to take over a good chunk of the Middle East -- if not the entire Muslim world. At least, that's the message the terrorist movement...

Ice at the North Pole is melting at record rates. Sea lanes are opening where they were never open before, and security implications are opening al...

In a nutshell, the Pentagon’s report says that U.S. armed forces need to better understand how a changing global climate will affect them, and just...

It is standard practice for navies to use retired ships as target hulks, both to test new weapons as well as understand how to improve the cobalt r...

Of the dozen Americans drawn to fight with ISIS or the al Qaeda affiliated Nusra Front, a profile does appear to be emerging: They are young, typic...

In “Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War,” James Risen, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for The New York Times, sets out to...

A Chinese website reported that a JSDMF P-3C maritime patrol aircraft, on September 27, tracked a catamaran ocean hydrographic spy ship 260 kilomet...

“The bulk of the weight carried now,” Peter Singer, defense expert at New America Foundation, says, “is a combination of protective vest, flak vest...

On Monday Afghans formed a "national unity government" with the once-bitter rivals Dr. Ashraf Ghani, taking the role of president and Dr. Adullah A...

While China has made many recent advances in defense space technology, it still lags behind the U.S. when it comes to imaging satellites. But recen...

If this was the greatest army in history, why was it unable to prevail in Afghanistan and Iraq?

New pictures have emerged of additional production models of the J-10B “Vigorous Dragon” fighter jets, one of the latest planes to equip China’s gr...

The sudden public emergence of the Khorasan group as a threat underlines the fact that the global jihadist movement, which at the time of the 9/11 ...

Many Muslims hoped that the first African-American president, who had opposed the Iraq War as a candidate, would be quite different than his predec...

The Pentagon says the al Qaeda offshoot group called Khorasan was planning an imminent attack on European or American soil. But did the airstrikes ...

While al Qaeda and its affiliates have failed to conduct any successful attacks in the United States since 9/11, they have sought to encourage acti...

While the core al-Qaeda group that struck the United States on 9/11 has been decimated in recent years, its affiliates and associated groups have d...

Over this past weekend, Hezbollah, the militant Shiite group that is headquartered in Lebanon, reportedly used drones to bomb a building used by th...

It is a real crisis for Cameron, and it underlines a sobering fact: British citizens have volunteered to go to Syria to fight at 25 times the rate ...

The Future of War project is managed by a team of staff and fellows based at New America, including journalists, legal scholars, former military of...

On January 22, 2014, Tom Ricks, a contributing editor for Foreign Policy magazine, a Senior Advisor on National Security at New America, and a memb...

The security failure wasn’t because all Syrian radar officers turned traitor that night. Rather, their technology did.