Andrew Latham

Andrew Latham is a non-resident fellow at Defense Priorities and a professor of international relations and political theory at Macalester College in Saint Paul, MN. Andrew is now a Contributing Editor to 19FortyFive, where he writes a daily column. You can follow him on X: @aakatham.

September 10, 2026

Editor's Choice/News

Who Will Be Europe’s ‘Last Chance’?

Hitler was cornered in his Berlin bunker, desperate and approaching suicide, when he declared: “I am Europe’s last chance.” As a continent burned and lay devastated by his own actions, he still

Editor's Choice/Geopolitics

Intelligence Warnings Before Ceuta’s Unprecedented Migration Surge

by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor The Spanish Government’s decision to declassify 40 reports and communications relating to the migration crisis in Ceuta offers an unusually detailed reconstruction of the days before, during and immediately after the mass irregular entry of

September 10, 2026

OpenAI Calls for AI Safety Rules as Its Agents Go Rogue

Business

OpenAI is calling for mandatory national artificial intelligence safety requirements in the United States, arguing that the rapid increase in AI capabilities has made

China’s AI Chip Ambition Hits a Memory Bottleneck

Business

China’s leading artificial intelligence chipmakers are sharply raising prices for current and next-generation processors as a global shortage of high-bandwidth memory squeezes efforts to

The Iran War Is Now All About Who Controls the Strait of Hormuz

April 2, 2026

Iran/United States/World

Clausewitz understood that wars have a way of outgrowing the aims that set them in motion. Thirty-one days into Operation Epic Fury, his lesson is being relearned — even if Washington can’t

Kashmir’s Forever War

May 21, 2025

Columns/Geopolitics

This Ceasefire Will Not Hold – Because India and Pakistan Were Never Meant to Coexist: On May 16, 2025, India and Pakistan agreed – yet again – to a ceasefire along the Line of Control