Michael Peck

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  • Sep 22, 2025
    Though their landscape is picturesque, the Baltic states are not built for defense. Lakes and swamps provide some benefit, but there are no mountains, jungles, or Rhine-sized rivers...
  • Jun 18, 2025
    Fighting on multiple fronts simultaneously is a mistake, as Europe well knows. Napoleon lost his throne because his armies were spread thin from Madrid to Moscow. In two world wars,...
  • May 15, 2025
    China’s Encroachment In the Yellow Sea Is Making South Korea Nervous: As if tensions aren’t already running high between China and its neighbors, Beijing is...
  • May 1, 2025
    Without mutual exhaustion or strong external enforcement (which Europe currently lacks capacity for), any cessation of hostilities in Ukraine would likely be merely a temporary truce...
  • Apr 16, 2025
    In March 2025, a small flotilla of Chinese warships sailed around Australia, raising fears reminiscent of Japan’s threat in 1942. Yet despite entering Australia’s...
  • Apr 9, 2025
    As the Trump administration disrupts global politics, some fear that China might take advantage of the chaos to invade Taiwan.  
  • Jan 15, 2025
    Just a few years ago, Syria seemed proof that Russia had thrown off its post-Soviet blues.