It was in 1979 that China fought its last major war. Two lakh PLA soldiers pushed through dense jungles of north Vietnam flanked by Chinese versions of Soviet T-55A tanks. Forty-six years later, in ...

YJ-19, China's first operational hypersonic cruise missile, seen during a military parade in Beijing, Sept. 3, 2025. (Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images) There are two competing narratives about the ...

Editor's Note: In this second installment of a two-part series on leadership and readiness, the article argues that the future of military advantage lies not in weapons or algorithms, but in character ...

Mr. McCarthy was the 24th secretary of the Army, from 2019 to 2021, and is an operating partner at AE Industrial, a private equity firm with investments in aerospace and military contracting companies ...