The Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) have pursued a number of doctrinal changes intended to improve their offensive ...

As victory in Europe was secured in May 1945, the war in the Pacific raged on with undiminished ferocity. Facing Japan’s refusal to surrender and the horrifying projections of Operation Downfall, ...

In the bleakest days of the Cold War, there was a terrifying yet oddly reassuring logic to the nuclear standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union. The two superpowers were constrained by ...

Two historical scenarios suggested by two keen observers of global politics highlight the need for the United States to revive its defense industrial base. James Holmes, a professor of strategy at the ...

At the same time, Japan ratcheted up the tension by moving missile systems to Yonaguni Island, just 110 kilometers (68 miles) from Taiwan. It has also restored WWII titles for military ranks which, ...

The rapid buildup to the biggest, baddest aircraft carriers started with the World War II attack on Pearl Harbor.

This article was originally published in early November 2025, in issue #2 of International Marxism, international political ...

Kim Jong-un has reportedly chosen his teenage daughter Kim Ju Ae as his heir. The Kim family, who have ruled the ‘Hermit Kingdom’ for decades, have sought to cultivate a cult of personality around ...

Japan's ruling LDP secured 316 of 465 seats in the House of Rep., surpassing the two-thirds threshold required to initiate ...

When Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi called snap elections last month, it was a big gamble. Holding a winter election just four months into her tenure with no real policy record to run on?

According to the NHK report, aid that Tokyo could fund for Ukraine through the program would be limited to non-lethal ...