Alliances

The Italian Air Force showcase F-35A Lightning II aircraft

Could America “Kill” Its Allies’ F-35 Fighters?

The White House has never suggested an objective of limiting the F-35’s use in U.S. partnered nations.

Fleet of Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force ships.

Japan and the Philippines Are Joining Forces to Fight China

Japan’s expanded military ties with the Philippines are a logical progression of its ties to the United States.

The United States Must Become the AI Arsenal of Democracy

Editor’s note: In February, The National Interest organized a symposium on the U.S.-China technology race amidst the emergence of DeepSeek and ongoing legal battles over TikTok. We asked a variety of experts the following...

No Man of Steel

In his final days in office, President Biden outdid himself by harming America’s national security. After a series of foreign policy failures and foibles spanning Afghanistan, Ukraine, the Middle East,...

President Trump Holds the Cards to Reshape the World

President Donald Trump is a fortunate man with the resolve to create his own luck. As he reenters the Oval Office, he finds a world in flux, with American adversaries...

The A-10 Warthog Made a Rare Appearance in the Philippines

Earlier in December, an A-10 Thunderbolt II close air support aircraft made a rare appearance in southeast Asia in what could be a picture from the future. The American aircraft worked with...

Inept U.S. Policy is Driving Russia and North Korea Together

Growing military cooperation between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and Russia has led to a surge of pearl-clutching among the U.S. foreign policy establishment and its allies in...

What Alliances Can Do for America

As the North Atlantic Treaty Organization conducts its seventy-fifth-anniversary summit in Washington, Americans increasingly wonder about the value of U.S. alliances. Some officials and pundits dismiss such questions as isolationism...

Could Russia Support China in a Taiwan Invasion?

Summary and Key Points: If China invades Taiwan, Russia is likely to provide military, economic, or political support to Beijing, drawing on insights from Russia’s war in Ukraine and U.S....

The Military Aid Dilemma

The United States, after months of delay, sent $95 billion in military aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. Much of the holdup, apparently, was to virtue signal about U.S. border...

How Do Alliances End?

So I winged out to Chicago last month for a symposium at the Pritzker Military Museum and Library, across Michigan Avenue from the justly famed Art Institute of Chicago. My...

Teaching A Man to Fish: Donald Trump’s Second-Term Alliance Policy

American voters trust the GOP more on most of their top priorities and Donald Trump is currently leading in most polls in the battleground states. Many European foreign policy observers...