China, Nuclear Security and Terrorism: Implications for the United States
Abstract This article outlines Chinese strategic nuclear forces and the Chinese philosophical approach to nuclear security. It then focuses...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
China, Nuclear Security and Terrorism: Implications for the United States
A nation must think before it acts.
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COIN Machine: The British Military in Afghanistan
Abstract This article assesses the British military effort in Afghanistan looking at three key elements in the campaign: strategy,...
The ‘Mega-Eights’: Urban Leviathans and International Instability
Abstract By 2015, there will be 58 cities on the planet with a population of 5 million or more...
American Grand Strategy after Iraq
Abstract To the extent that a grand strategy can be discerned in the first year of the Obama Administration,...
American Grand Strategy from the Cold War’s End to 9/11
Abstract Grand strategy is about making sense of complexity; it is the wisdom to make power serve useful purposes....
Grand Strategy after the Vietnam War
Abstract The perceived history of the Vietnam War profoundly influenced American discussions on grand strategy during the postwar period....
Reassessing U.S. Strategy in the Aftermath of the Korean War
Abstract This article examines the reassessment of U.S. strategy that Dwight D. Eisenhower directed after replacing Harry S. Truman...
Roosevelt, Truman and the Development of Postwar Grand Strategy
Abstract After its victory in World War II, it was clear that United States should move beyond the disastrous...
Debating American Grand Strategy After Major War
During major war, enemy armies fight each other for the right (in the sense that ‘‘might makes right’’) to...
Editor’s Corner Fall 2009
In These Pages Orbis is honored to publish as a special section five papers prepared for the 50th anniversary...