Deterring China in the “Gray Zone”: Lessons of the South China Sea for U.S. Alliances
Abstract If facing down a hostile actor in the “gray zone” is hard for a single actor, such as...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Deterring China in the “Gray Zone”: Lessons of the South China Sea for U.S. Alliances
A nation must think before it acts.
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Learning from Contemporary Conflicts to Prepare for Future War
Abstract Recent and ongoing wartime experience has discredited much of the thinking that underpinned the “Defense Transformation” effort in...
Editor’s Corner Summer 2017
In These Pages Welcome to the summer issue of Orbis. As always, the journal offers articles that address a...
Of Fake News and Fake History
It seems we are in the midst of a crisis of information—or, rather, a crisis of misinformation. The epidemic...
The Tranquil World of Donald J. Trump
“Tranquil” likely is well down the list of words that come to mind when describing the worldview of Donald...
The Six Day and Fifty Years War
The most important lesson of the June 1967 Arab-Israeli war is that there is no such thing as a...
From Baghdad to Riyadh: A New Regional Security Pact?
President Trump’s trip to Saudi Arabia did not, as some expected, result in an announcement of an “Arab NATO.”...
1917: The Year of the Century
1917 was a key year in a crucial decade. This was a decade of change, or, rather, transformation; of...
Getting Peshmerga Reform Right: Helping the Iraqi Kurds to Help Themselves in Post-ISIS Iraq
As the United States looks toward developing policies for a post-ISIS Iraq, preventing violence between Kurdish factions in Iraq...
A Match is Nothing Without a Fuse; A Fuse is Nothing Without a Bomb: Starting Two Wars, 1898-1899
The Spanish-American War is a relatively forgotten war in American history. The most remembered wars—the Revolution, the Civil War,...