A new monthly column by Peter W. Singer and August Cole will explore the future through short stories.

Welcome to Fictional Intelligence, the first of a monthly series that explores the future through short stories.

A defense-industrial partnership could benefit the Pentagon while mitigating Chinese influence.

The Pentagon and its Golden Dome contractors are proposing to replace one showstopping problem with another.

A former U.S. infantryman responds to Trump’s amnesiac take on Afghanistan.

A scholar of civil wars warns against repeating the past mistakes from U.S. military interventions abroad.

External attacks stir up nationalism and redirect public anger outward, a “rally-around-the-flag” effect long documented by political scientists.

A hostile takeover would shatter America’s key alliance, limit its military’s global reach, and invite economic reprisal.

A former diplomat looks at the president’s latest ally-shaking outburst.

As lawmakers sprint to fund the U.S. government, America’s support for Kyiv hangs in the balance—and could determine how the conflict ends.