War on the Rocks API, RSS and sitemap

Every article War on the Rocks publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 149 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

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Four ways to pull warontherocks.com

All four are ours, all four are live, and none of them needs a key.

Call the API

A live request. Paste it into a terminal and War on the Rocks headlines come back as JSON.

curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=warontherocks.com&size=5"

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 59 days. The busiest hour is 07:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?host=warontherocks.com&top=10"

Publishing rhythm

When War on the Rocks actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 149 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

Sections

Sections come from the publisher's own markup, present on 100% of their articles.

Languages

Latest articles

The 18 most recent War on the Rocks articles in the index — the same rows the API returns, rendered for humans.

Why Eurasia, Not the Indo-Pacific, Matters Most in Next Phase of Taiwan Deterrence

2026-09-18 07:30 UTC · Commentary · Ken Moriyasu; William Pazos

Washington is preparing for the right war, but in the wrong theater. For years, U.S. strategic thinking has centered on the Indo‑Pacific: the militarized

Latin America’s Balancing Act: Washington, Beijing, and the Post-Maduro Environment

2026-09-17 18:15 UTC · In Brief · Cecilia Farfán-Méndez; Benjamin Gedan; C

The year 2026 has brought sweeping change to Latin America’s relationship with the United States. Following a major military buildup in the Caribbean and

A Body Blow? The War on Iran and U.S. Military Readiness

2026-09-17 17:14 UTC · Podcasts · Mark Cancian; Stacie Pettyjohn; Michael

The war against Iran is putting new strains on U.S. military readiness by consuming munitions and missile defense interceptors, as well as through

An Army General Talks Fusing Sensors and Shooters on the Eastern Flank

2026-09-17 08:00 UTC · Cogs of War · Brig Gen Steven P Carpenter

This exclusive Cogs of War interview is with Brig. Gen. Steven P. Carpenter, the commanding general of Multi-Domain Command - Europe, the U.S. Army's

The Real U.S.-Saudi Nuclear Deal Is Better Than We Thought

2026-09-17 07:30 UTC · Commentary · Richard Nephew

On Aug. 24, 2026, the Trump administration transmitted the text of the U.S.-Saudi nuclear cooperation agreement to Congress. By doing so, the

Would NATO Membership for Ukraine Undermine Article 5 Itself?

2026-09-16 17:30 UTC · Members · Jennifer Kavanagh; Christopher McCallion

In 2025, Jennifer Kavanaugh and Christopher McCallion wrote, “Armed Neutrality for Ukraine Is NATO’s Least Poor Option,” where they made the case for

Strategic Stability and the Rebuilding of Xi’s Military

2026-09-16 07:30 UTC · Commentary · Christopher Nye; Charles Sun

For all the warnings about an increasingly capable Chinese military, this may very well be an awkward moment for Beijing to have that military tested.

Three Patrons, Three Clients: The Mecca Alliance No One Owns

2026-09-15 07:30 UTC · Commentary · Ahmed Saber Abbas

Every alliance contains a struggle over who gets to decide what the alliance is for. The unusual thing about the Mecca Alliance, formally known as the

Reading the Kremlin's Mind: Ukrainian Writers Attempt to Understand Putin

2026-09-14 18:40 UTC · Members · Nicole Wiley

Welcome to The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spectrum, only for War on the

This Is Not Your Father’s Nuclear Flight Test Vehicle

2026-09-14 08:00 UTC · Cogs of War · Brandon Williams

For decades, the United States’ nuclear weapons enterprise has wrestled with an institutional paradox. On one hand is the imperative to make the complex

The Big Bet on the Emerging Space Economy

2026-09-14 07:45 UTC · Cogs of War · Dan Wald; Brian Weeden; Joseph Yaffe; Jo

The space economy has surpassed $600 billion in annual value, with some projecting it will reach a trillion by the 2030s. Jonathan Panter is joined by

The Age of Strategic Exclusion

2026-09-14 07:30 UTC · Commentary · Patrick Gill-Tiney

Major powers are increasingly trying to shut out their rivals. Russia invaded Ukraine in part to prevent the latter’s further integration with the West.

The War's Last Generation Is Still Holding America's Moral Debt

2026-09-11 07:30 UTC · Commentary · Omer S Rafiq

On the first night of the evacuation of Kabul, Aug. 15, 2021, a young mother found me in the crowd at Hamid Karzai International Airport. She had marked

What America’s Adversaries and Allies Hope to Gain at the U.N. General Assembly

2026-09-10 17:30 UTC · In Brief · Holly Dagres; Raymond Kuo; Nicholas Lokk

This year’s U.N. General Assembly officially opened on Tuesday, Sept. 8. The annual gathering gives diplomats and leaders a valuable opportunity to press

Automating the Action Officer: Between Bureaucracy and Technology

2026-09-10 08:00 UTC · Cogs of War · Samuel Canter

If there is a revolution brewing in the automation of white-collar work, you wouldn’t know it at the Pentagon. Here, the typical action officers, staff

The Assessment Gap in U.S. Counter-Terrorism Strikes

2026-09-10 07:30 UTC · Commentary · Jim Loucks

For eight years I helped decide whether American counter-terrorism money was working. As a programs advisor in the State Department’s Bureau of

Forced Into the Right Decision? A Look at U.S. Land-Based Deterrence Posture

2026-09-09 17:30 UTC · Members · Steve Fetter

In 2019, Steve Fetter wrote “A Cheaper Nuclear Sponge,” in which he argued that building a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) was unnecessary

The Tyranny of Shipyard Cost-Plus Contracting

2026-09-09 08:00 UTC · Cogs of War · Kavon Hakimzadeh

As a naval shipyard commander, my mandate from Navy leadership is straightforward: return warships to the fleet as quickly as possible. Neither my

Harvest it all

Page through the archive by date. from and to accept YYYY-MM-DD or relative values such as now-7d.

curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=warontherocks.com&from=now-7d&size=100"

To poll for new material, keep the timestamp of the newest article you saw and ask only for what came after it:

curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=warontherocks.com&from=now-1h&sort=date_asc"

Article bodies come with full_text=true. No key, no quota tier, no header — see the search endpoint for every parameter.

Metadata quality

How well War on the Rocks marks up its own pages — useful if you are deciding whether to parse them yourself.

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 795 min at the median, 1792 minutes at the 90th percentile.

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FAQ

Does War on the Rocks have an official API?

Not a public one. This endpoint is the practical alternative: their articles as structured JSON, with title, lead, publication time, section, byline and a link back to the original.

How do I get their RSS feed?

Most publishers expose one at /rss or /feed, but feeds carry only the last few dozen items and drop them within hours. This index keeps 149 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does War on the Rocks publish per day?

3 on a median day, measured across 59 days.

Can I use this commercially?

The API is free and unauthenticated. What you may do with the content is between you and the publisher: we return metadata, a lead paragraph and a link, not a licence.