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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Getty A Third Nuclear Age Is Upon Us
North Korea’s moves to develop tactical nuclear weapons show that the slope toward a new era is steepening.
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Getty; The Atlantic How the Finns Deter Russian Invasion
If you want ordinary people to make your society occupation-proof, you have to teach them to kill well before they need to do so.
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Alexei Nikolsky / TASS / Getty Arm the Ukrainians Now
The U.S. must support an insurgency that will cause Russia to regret any attempt to crush democracy and independence.
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Jean-Marc Caimi and Valentina Piccinni Ukraine’s Civilian Soldiers
For many Ukrainians, war with Russia is not a possibility, but an ever-present reality.
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FOX / Everett; Amazon / Everett; Universal / … How Fake Spies Ruin Real Intelligence
Espionage-themed entertainment is influencing policy makers, from soldiers fighting on the front lines to justices sitting on the nation’s highest court.
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Maureen Drennan What Will Become of America’s Veterans’ Halls?
Across the country, membership in the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars is declining, but the physical spaces they occupy still serve important purposes.
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Win McNamee / Getty; Anna Moneymaker / Getty; … Virginia’s Next Governor and the Threat of a Constitutional Crisis
State governors command the National Guard. That means more now than it has in a long time.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP What Working for Colin Powell Taught Me
The former general and ex–secretary of state made hard work fun.
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Sgt. Kaden D. Pitt / U.S. Army / … The Hypocrisy of the Anti-vax Patriot
Stopping the spread of COVID-19 is a great way to help U.S. military families.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic What I Learned While Hunting Humans
And how our drone policy led to the deaths of seven children
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Susan Walsh / AP Trump Put Milley in an Impossible Position
The general stayed inside the lines—barely. The real problem is that he was in that situation at all.
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Adam Ferguson Ask Us What We’ve Seen
American service members reflect on their time in Afghanistan.
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Cedric von Niederhausern / The Atlantic American Spies Are Fighting the Last War, Again
When the Cold War ended, the intelligence community failed to adapt. Today it faces a similar challenge.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic What I Learned While Eavesdropping on the Taliban
I spent 600 hours listening in on the people who now run Afghanistan. It wasn’t until the end of my tour that I understood what they were telling me.
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Shah Marai / AFP / Getty Why the Afghan Army Folded
America has historically struggled to train foreign militaries.
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Ben Brody ‘How Does One Process Defeat?’
A letter to a civilian who deployed to Afghanistan
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic Why Isn’t the Military Mandating COVID-19 Vaccines?
Service members need to be protected against the coronavirus. This isn’t a close call.
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Al Drago / Bloomberg / Getty What Is Happening to Our Apolitical Military?
Remarks by America’s most senior military officer mark the latest step in the continued erosion of relations between the armed forces and their civilian leaders.
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David Hume Kennerly / Getty How Rumsfeld Deserves to Be Remembered
America’s worst secretary of defense never expressed a quiver of regret.
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Paolo Pellegrin / Magnum Photos The Fairy Tale America Likes to Tell Itself
The country believes that its policies are like a pendulum, swinging back and forth over a moderate middle ground. But since 9/11, that pendulum has been stuck.
