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Jun 2, 2026
The Thucydides Trap assumes nations have no control over their actions, and has been refuted by world history. Yet fear of it in popular imagination can have real geopolitical...
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May 4, 2026
The Chernobyl disaster alerted Soviet leaders to the need for a better “safety culture” within its nuclear program—but the warning came too little, too late.
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Apr 21, 2026
The US Navy and Iran are simultaneously attempting to blockade the same target—an unusual, but hardly unprecedented, state of affairs.
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Apr 7, 2026
There is little doubt the United States can achieve its tactical objectives against Iran through military force—but what if doing so leads to strategic calamity elsewhere in...
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Mar 31, 2026
The current government of Iran has made clear that it will never consent to a US-led postwar order in the Middle East. It must go.
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Mar 25, 2026
Taiwan and Iran share a handful of geopolitical conditions—most obviously the need to deter a far larger and more powerful foreign aggressor.
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Feb 28, 2026
To eliminate Iran’s nuclear and missile programs, the United States seems to have few alternatives to overthrowing the government. But how can it do so without boots on the...
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Feb 23, 2026
The new plan calls for six fundamental—and badly needed—changes to America’s ailing shipbuilding sector.
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Feb 11, 2026
During World War II, Japan’s fleet was large and qualitatively peerless, but unsupported by a broader defense-industrial base. The United States finds itself in the same...
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Feb 9, 2026
The 2026 National Defense Strategy sets striking new priorities for the Pentagon—but can hardly be described as “isolationist” in character.
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Jan 24, 2026
In the late 1890s, naval theorist Alfred Thayer Mahan made a compelling argument for the United States’ possession of Hawaii. Those interested in the annexation of Greenland...
