The DEFCON Warning System™

Ongoing GeoIntel and Analysis in the theater of nuclear war. DEFCON Level assessment issued for public notification. Established 1984.

China

For decades, the military might of the US was unchallenged. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the US was

The Chinese military is ramping up its ability to disrupt key American infrastructure, including power and water utilities as well as communications

International politics is now defined by a world at war. The United States is consumed with a stalemate in Ukraine’s resistance to

In the last few years, the world’s arms-control architecture has been falling apart, especially as Russia has turned it back on treaty

The 2022 National Security Strategy states that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is the onlycompetitor to the United States with the

It’s time to move beyond the question of whether the United States is, or should be, in a cold war with China,

China has developed an arsenal of more than 500 operational nuclear warheads and is set to double that number by the end

In the last 10 years, President Xi Jinping of China has had at least five different meetings with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

China is accelerating its military capabilities to invade Taiwan and possibly wage war against the United States in the South China Sea,

Over the past 10 years, the U.S. defense community has produced a tremendous volume of analytical work on the military balance between

Russia, the United States and China have all built new facilities and dug new tunnels at their nuclear test sites in recent

Russian and Chinese forces are growing bolder in their aerial intercepts of U.S. aircraft, in part because they’re no longer intimidated by