Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As Russian troops continue their invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has reportedly put his nuclear forces on ...

People often hear officials say they are trying to “restore deterrence” after a strike, then watch the conflict get worse anyway. That is because deterrence and escalation are not opposites in a ...

FOX News host Greg Gutfeld wondered Thursday if the U.S. still believes in the doctrine of extended deterrence. If Russian President Vladimir Putin has broken the traditional Mutually Assured ...

The Department of Defense is funding at least eight programs aimed at equipping each of the military departments with hypersonic weapons by the end of the decade. Hypersonic systems are designed to ...

In the days of radio, when a batter crushed a basebal that was headed for a home run, the famous sports announcer Mel Allen described the ball’s trajectory as “going, going, gone.” The same descriptor ...

All of these threats are, to one degree or another, ripostes to our inadequate thinking about escalation and deterrence. However, these efforts to avoid escalation have been resounding failures. The ...

As Russian troops continue their invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has reportedly put his nuclear forces on high alert. Since Russian military forces began invading Ukraine on ...