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Sep 26, 2023
The question posed by the organizers is: Will Taiwan be a tipping point in global security? Well, why don’t we start at the beginning and ask what a tipping point is.
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Aug 28, 2023
The odds still favor Russia, both by Moltkean logic and by virtue of Russia’s massive demographic, economic, and military preponderance over Ukraine. But combatants are human,...
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Aug 12, 2023
Get used to the new maritime normal, America; it’s much the same as the old normal, familiar to anyone who served at sea during the Cold War. Sailors take joy in appearing off...
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Aug 8, 2023
Japan’s Ministry of Defense uses annual white papers to survey the country’s strategic surroundings and explain how it means to manage them. Its latest such survey shows...
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Jun 30, 2023
Do all of this, and we might blunt the worst excesses of China’s imperial foreign policy—and spoil the Chinese Dream.
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May 29, 2023
That it’s springtime in the Black Sea is not enough reason to go on the march. Military reality—not the passing of the seasons—has to prevail in Ukrainian...
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May 2, 2023
So Carl von Clausewitz, when properly understood, was right about how wars do or do not end. Even after a resounding triumph, it behooves the victors to be on guard for what follows....
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Apr 26, 2023
Sad to say, but rhetoric alone is not enough. It seems things must get worse in the commercial world before they get better for a U.S. naval buildup.
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Apr 17, 2023
F-35s could find themselves grounded for want of spare parts and kindred support. A supply shortage can knock a fighter jet out of the wild blue as surely as an enemy missile can, if...
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Apr 10, 2023
Question: On the nature of the Chinese gray-zone challenge to the freedom of the sea and the rule of international law in the South China Sea. How can we...
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Apr 3, 2023
But end-of-history thinking alone can’t account for America’s post-Cold War myopia. Armed services were undergoing a change from depending mainly on gunfire to depending mainly...
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Mar 23, 2023
Last month the Joint Chiefs of Staff published a directive entitled Joint Concept for Competing, aimed at defining strategic competition and explaining how the U.S. armed forces will...
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Mar 13, 2023
China has a very unique maritime history that would inform on how it would fight the United States in any military clash.
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Mar 6, 2023
Irregular warfare is merely a temporary expedient whereby the lesser contender takes its time to invert the balance of forces—and triumph.
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Feb 28, 2023
Russia’s year-long onslaught against Ukraine proves, yet again, that the fundamental nature of war never changes even though no war is precisely like another.
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Feb 13, 2023
An indigenously built Indian fighter trapped aboard an indigenously built aircraft carrier. How powerful can India's navy become?
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Jan 31, 2023
So is it going to be Mahan or Corbett in orbit? Corbett, according to Frank Calvelli, the top acquisition executive for the U.S. Space Force.
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Jan 24, 2023
A war between the U.S. and China over Taiwan would be brutal. But it might just be the opening round of a longer conflict.
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Jan 16, 2023
The U.S. Marine Corps intends to found a Marine Littoral Regiment capable of island-hopping along Japan’s Ryukyus chain to battle China.
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Jan 10, 2023
It wasn’t that long ago that suggesting that China is enamored of Alfred Thayer Mahan’s ideas about sea power was a laugh line.
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Jan 9, 2023
If Japan possessed armaments and warriors adequate to protect itself, the U.S. armed forces wouldn’t need to.