Vietnam’s strategic choices will be constrained by internal military power dynamics and great power competition in 2026.

Members of the People’s Liberation Army exist in an environment that is isolated, restrictive and tightly controlled, ...

China would need to do more than kill or capture Taiwan’s president, Lai Ching-te, as that would leave intact the rest of the ...

Also part of the equation this week: China's visible pivot to another regional neighbor, South Korea, whose president spent ...

Millions of casualties. Years of bloody attrition warfare. When Vietnamese communists toppled French colonial rule in 1954 despite massive U.S. military aid, the Geneva Accords temporarily divided ...

Front Lines,’ Christopher McFadden’s’ column, examines warfare past, present, and future. McFadden analyzes cutting-edge military tech, and global defense policies, highlighting the forces shaping our ...

The world took note of the meteoric growth of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA), both in size and capability. Specifically, the PLA and PLAN’s amphibious capabilities development is impressive ...

It could once have been said that the Vietnam War was the most photographed war in history, but you can’t say that anymore, because today everybody has a camera. Everything, it seems, is photographed ...

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The Vietnam War is a highly controversial topic at the best of times. But during their many debates on the subject, Western historians rarely pause to consider how the conflict was seen through the ...

This year marks half a century since the end of the Vietnam War — a period the country commemorates through poignant museums and memorials. Today, the people of this fast-growing Southeast Asian ...

Since taking power, China’s paramount leader Xi Jinping has made purges under the anti-corruption pretext a hallmark of his tenure. As the chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), Xi ...