Joseph Bosco

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  • Nov 29, 2024
    Last week, the Brookings Institution held a security conference with Adm. Samuel J. Paparo, commander of United States Indo-Pacific Command — the U.S. military arm charged...
  • Oct 16, 2024
    Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently expressed mild but potentially consequential confusion regarding the nature and scope of America’s proclaimed...
  • Oct 2, 2024
    Former President Donald Trump’s agreement with the Taliban in 2019  partially set the stage for President Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from...
  • Sep 25, 2024
    Jake Sullivan’s visit to Beijing last month was the first by a U.S. national security adviser in eight years. The purpose of the trip was to address rising...
  • Aug 29, 2024
    If Kamala Harris becomes president five months from now, the first challenge she is likely to confront as commander-in-chief is the growing danger from at least four...
  • Aug 15, 2024
    History is replete with examples of civil wars, wars of aggression and political revolutions altering power relations and sovereignty over once-stable states and territories....
  • Jul 17, 2024
    After the NATO summit concluded in Washington last week, President Biden said there was a “consensus that it was a great success.” But that was only...
  • Jun 12, 2024
    When Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin met with his Chinese counterpart, Dong Jun, in Singapore late last month, he was treated to the usual litany of preemptive Beijing...
  • May 15, 2024
    Will today’s Cold War confrontation end auspiciously, the way the first one did, or will it slide through strategic miscalculations on both sides into a third world...
  • Apr 23, 2024
    Western leaders are deeply reluctant to acknowledge the obvious: we are already enmeshed in a new Cold War. More precisely, the authoritarian regimes in Russia, China,...