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Nov 28, 2025
Any U.S. war in Venezuela would be slow, costly, and strategically self-defeating. Caracas’s escalation over Guyana, tight ties to Russia, China, and Iran, and entrenched...
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Nov 22, 2025
While Washington’s gaze is fixed on the Caribbean, a quieter but no less important shift is taking place across the top of the world.
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Nov 14, 2025
USS Gerald R. Ford’s Caribbean patrol is more than counternarcotics theater; it signals a hemispheric-first grand strategy.
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Nov 12, 2025
A month ago, a U.S.-based telecom company announced that it had been hacked by suspected Chinese state-sponsored cyber actors. It was a window into 21st-century conflict....
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Nov 4, 2025
A U.S. aircraft carrier strike group, likely to be soon near Venezuela, is neither a token counternarcotics gesture nor a prelude to invasion. It’s compellence: calibrated...
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Oct 23, 2025
A stark warning argues the U.S. Navy’s bedrock is “cracking” due to an industrial crisis.
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Oct 21, 2025
Russia’s autumn offensive has stalled, yielding only microscopic gains at a colossal cost in blood and metal. While Russia has adapted its tactics, it has not achieved a...
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Oct 18, 2025
In a war with China, the U.S. must prepare to absorb a massive opening punch of over a thousand missiles and drones aimed at paralyzing its forces.
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Oct 16, 2025
A skeptical analysis of the new Gaza peace plan argues that while Phase 1 (the hostage swap) succeeded, the next phases—demilitarization and governance—are likely to fail.
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Oct 9, 2025
Russia is reorganizing for industrial war: fewer prestige projects, more factories, rotations, and repair cycles.
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Oct 6, 2025
The Ukraine war is settling into a costly deadlock of drones, artillery, and infrastructure strikes—fertile ground for a Korea-style armistice that freezes lines and polices...
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Sep 13, 2025
War in the Taiwan Strait wouldn’t yield a clean U.S. win. China’s missiles, submarines and proximity threaten carriers and forward bases.
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Sep 11, 2025
Russia’s mass strike on Ukraine spilled into NATO airspace when 19 drones crossed from Belarus into Poland, forcing intercepts and an Article 4 consultation.
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Sep 10, 2025
Emma Ashford, First Among Equals: The United States in a Multipolar World (Yale University Press, 2025)
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Sep 2, 2025
The British statesman Lord Palmerston once said, “We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests...
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Aug 20, 2025
The United States Navy’s industrial base is facing a full-blown crisis, threatening America’s status as the world’s dominant naval power.
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Aug 7, 2025
The international order is evolving quickly, with new cooperation mechanisms replacing inferior multilateral frameworks. One major trend has been the “minilateralization”...
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Aug 6, 2025
Mired in the turbulence of shifting geopolitical tides and revived great power competition, Canada stands at a crossroads, this time on the question of whether to pursue membership...
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Jul 30, 2025
While China may be learning from Russia’s brutal war in Ukraine that protracted invasions can eventually succeed, applying that lesson to Taiwan would be a “catastrophic...
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Jul 21, 2025
A United States that abruptly changes its strategy every four years is not one other countries will trust or respect.
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Jul 15, 2025
President Trump’s sudden decision to send billions in new weapons to Ukraine is not about ensuring a Ukrainian victory, but a high-stakes leverage play designed to force Russia...
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Jul 12, 2025
Western aspirations for regime change in Russia are a “dangerous delusion” that ignores the lessons of past interventions in Iraq and Libya.
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Jul 9, 2025
The dominant Western narrative that Europe can arm Ukraine to victory against Russia is a “dangerous fantasy.”
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Jul 4, 2025
Iran’s nuclear program has taken a hit. That much is no longer speculation—it’s the judgment of Israeli intelligence, confirmed in fragments by Western...
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Jun 3, 2025
Ukraine’s Drone Attack on Russia’s Bomber Fleet Won’t Win the War
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May 28, 2025
It’s late May 2025 and Donald Trump looks visibly irritated – not triumphant, not calculating, just irritated. Vladimir Putin has begun making noises about peace....
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May 26, 2025
Key Points – The post-Cold War expansion of NATO to Russia’s borders, without seriously considering Russia’s inclusion or its security concerns, is presented...
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May 22, 2025
The post-Cold War hegemonic fantasy is finally dead.
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May 9, 2025
The papacy of the fictional first American Pope, Leo XIV, represents a significant recalibration from his immediate predecessors. Unlike John Paul II’s global engagement,...
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Apr 28, 2025
As Canada’s 2025 federal election enters its final day, the campaigns thunder on about affordability, green transitions, and dreams of a more inclusive economy.
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Apr 18, 2025
America’s global strategy is unraveling, replaced by a multipolar world that Washington struggles to accept.
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Apr 16, 2025
Vital lessons from ancient Greece on the risks of sliding into war or a load of irrelevant ancient claptrap?
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Apr 11, 2025
The country isn’t collapsing under the weight of competing separatist projects.
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Apr 10, 2025
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Apr 4, 2025
There’s something almost poetic about the F-35 debates playing out on opposite sides of the Atlantic. In Canada and the United Kingdom, two of America’s oldest and most...
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Mar 28, 2025
fiasco, according to Orlando Bloom’s character in Elizabethtown, is not just a disaster — it is a disaster of mythic proportions. That’s the right word for...
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Mar 14, 2025
When President Donald Trump’s administration recently proposed a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin’s response was calculated and cagey as one might expect....
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Mar 11, 2025
The art of grand strategy is often treated as an exercise in power projection, deterrence, and securing national interests in an anarchic international order. Yet, the great thinkers...
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Mar 4, 2025
The idea of avoiding foreign entanglements has been part of US strategic thinking since the country’s founding
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Mar 1, 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s upcoming visit to Washington, where he is expected to sign a high-profile deal on critical minerals, has reignited discussions about...
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Feb 18, 2025
The recent visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Washington, D.C., marks a pivotal moment in U.S.-India relations, signaling a trajectory toward deeper geopolitical...
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Feb 3, 2025
Fortress America: Trump’s New Trade War Targets Canada & Mexico with Tariffs – Bernard Lewis once said, “America is harmless as an enemy and...
Mar 28, 2025 fiasco, according to Orlando Bloom’s character in Elizabethtown, is not just a disaster — it is a disaster of mythic proportions. That’s the right word for...