On the morning of April 14, 1988, the USS Samuel B. Roberts, an Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate cruising through the Persian Gulf, struck a mine. The ...
In the first 96 hours, the US-led coalition expended approximately 5,197 munitions across 35 types (see Figure 1). This ...
Chris Seiple was a Senior Fellow with FPRI’s Program on National Security. He is President Emeritus of the Institute for Global Engagement (IGE). The Foreign Policy Research Institute is dedicated to ...
From the “Great Arab Revolt” against Ottoman rule in World War I to the upheavals of the Arab Spring, this text analyzes a century of modern Arab history through the lens of three intertwined notions: ...
Over the last decade, the U.S., UK Israel and other states have begun to use Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for military operations and for targeted killings in places like Pakistan, Yemen and ...
“Speak softly and carry a big stick” Theodore Roosevelt famously said in 1901, when the United States was emerging as a great power. It was the right sentiment, perhaps, in an age of imperial rivalry ...
If Russia were ever to bring war to the Baltic, certainly the Baltic States themselves would not permit war to remain confined to their lands alone. Such has ...
FPRI had an exceptional year. We published cutting-edge research on the challenges Russia and China pose to American interests in the Indo-Pacific region, ...