Streets of Kherson covered with anti-drone nets to protect civilians from russian drones. A city where russians regularly hunt civilians with drones in the infamous “human safari” for sport and for entertainment, still finds ways to carry on 💔

On D-Day, June 6, 1944, paratrooper John Steele’s parachute snagged on a church steeple in Normandy. He hung there for two hours, pretending to be dead as the battle raged below. Today, a mannequin still hangs from the steeple in his honor. Steele became part of one of the most

This is in all my presentations from now on

3 million!

This is a very good cause. The vast majority of Western countries teach history to all children until the age of 16, but not Britain. We should do better!

Can’t emphasize how big of a story this is for Russia and Iran’s nuclear program — probably the most concrete evidence that Russia is crossing previously-held redlines when it comes to cooperation with Iran in the nuclear domain.

"In America, the frontier bred a myth of conquest & continual striving — restless, inventive, & impatient with limits. In Australia, it was a myth of endurance & communal resilience." Great, historically-informed piece on 🇺🇸/🇦🇺 alliance in War on the Rocks warontherocks.com/2025/11/how-th…

Anyone with an interest in nuclear issues should be following Reja’s work.

Allies provide more than military capabilities and mutual defense promises. Allies provide access: permission for military and intelligence missions from within their borders. Ally-enabled access has been a key ingredient for US power projection and intel collection for decades

This is a crazy story. An Indian national born in Arunchal Pradesh, living in the UK, was held at Shanghai airport for over 18 hours as Chinese authories accused her of being Chinese, not Indian, saying Arunchal Pradesh is part of China, and questioning why she had an Indian

I have a new article today in War on the Rocks that attempts to lead Washington to a different approach to fostering negotiations to end the war between Ukraine and Russia. I offer 15 principles the belligerents should agree to before negotiations can begin warontherocks.com/2025/11/a-15-p…

Something deeply moving about Lincoln making Thanksgiving a national holiday in the midst of the Civil War because we may “expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom” and “God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.”

It’s publication day! I have contributed the chapter on France in this book exploring how NATO membership shaped and constrained the development of national armies. Honoured to join a group of distinguished historians as a mere political scientist. lup.nl/publications/p…

Isnt this wonderful? Clemenceau on Émile Zola that so resonates today and on X: "Men have been found to resist the most powerful monarchs and to refuse to bow down before them, but few indeed have been found to resist the crowd, to stand up alone before misguided masses, to

A curated list of the books our writers, contributing editors, and staff kept coming back to in 2025. ow.ly/Gpum30sRxGS

Yeah don’t think that’s the kind of historical narratives China wants to head down

The War on the Rocks holiday reading list is out. My two recommendations this year: Josh Rovner 's Strategy & Grand Strategy & The Arsenal of Democracy: Technology, Industry & Deterrence in an Age of Hard Choices by Ecyk Freymann & Harry Halem warontherocks.com/2025/11/the-20…

It's notable that 'Brideshead Revisited' (1945) and 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe' (1950) were both published and were popular during the austerity years of rationing after the Second World War, and both feature transitions into seemingly unobtainable worlds where

“Not only are lines of communication wrecked; the very idea of a secure rear is fading,” Valeriy Zaluzhniy, warned recently. » The ⁦⁦The Wall Street Journal⁩ continues to have some of the very best coverage on the war in Ukraine. wsj.com/world/russia-g…