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Will China’s Latest Purge Come for Xi Jinping?
The mysterious exit of top Chinese military officials raises the question of whether Xi is consolidating power or quickly losing it.
Frannie Block and Tanner Nau
Two Drinks with . . . the Last Great Military Strategist
Edward Luttwak has worked with everyone from the Pentagon to the Israel Defense Forces. Over Campari and sodas, he mused on Venezuela, the wisdom of…
Eli Lake
‘I Was Detained Simply for Being an American’
U.S. Marine and former Venezuelan prisoner Matthew Heath describes what Maduro’s regime did to him.
Tanya Lukyanova
What Will Happen Next in Venezuela? We Asked David Petraeus.
The famed former Army general and CIA director says the best way to avoid U.S. boots on the ground is by working with what’s left of Maduro’s regime.
Will Rahn
How Trump’s Boat Strikes Could Lead to Full-Scale War
If you threaten to topple a dictator, you better not be bluffing.
Charles Lane
Killing Narco Speedboat Survivors Is a War Crime
A recent Washington Post story alleged that the Navy killed two men clinging to a boat that was bombed by the U.S. No matter the rationale, says our…
Jed Rubenfeld
I Served in the CIA’s Zero Units in Afghanistan
So did the Afghan man accused of savagely shooting two National Guard members the day before Thanksgiving. We cannot use this horrific act to malign all…
Elliot Ackerman
No, Democratic Lawmakers Didn’t Commit Sedition
Trump accused six Democrats of ‘seditious’ conduct after they told troops they can refuse unlawful orders. The law doesn’t back him up—but the video is…
Jed Rubenfeld
Palmer Luckey and the Future of American Power
Bari Weiss and Palmer Luckey sit down for a sweeping conversation about his falling-out with Mark Zuckerberg, AI defense weapons, and why America lost…
Bari Weiss
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American Soldiers Don’t Wear American Combat Boots
U.S.-made boots often cost too much and deliver too little, but Congress may require them anyway.
Jonas Du
Jed Rubenfeld: Trump Tests His Constitutional Limits
From tariffs and the National Guard deployments to Trump’s bombing of a Venezuelan boat and attempt to fire a member of the Fed, our legal columnist…
Jed Rubenfeld
How Being an Intelligence Officer Made Me a Better Writer
‘Write what you know,’ they tell writers. I worked in intelligence, so naturally I wrote a spy novel.
Elliot Ackerman
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