Mar-a-Lago: The Summit that Wasn’t
Palm Beach heaved a collective sigh of relief as Chinese President Xi Jinping’s plane lifted off from the county...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Mar-a-Lago: The Summit that Wasn’t
A nation must think before it acts.
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Khan Sheikhoun, Shayrat Air Base, and What Next?
By now the world knows that U.S. military forces for the first time since the onset of the Syrian...
Thinking Beyond China When Dealing with North Korea: Is There a Role for Russia?
Washington’s continued fixation on China as the only route to the solution of the North Korea nuclear problem is...
The Causes of the War of 1812
As the foremost theorist of war, Carl von Clausewitz, once noted, “Everything is very simple in war, but the...
Taking Stock of China’s Growing Navy: The Death and Life of Surface Fleets
Abstract China has staged an impressive buildup of naval might. Like past newcomers to maritime competition—Imperial Germany and the...
Russia’s Strategic Beliefs Today; the Risk of War in the Future
Abstract Russian President Vladimir Putin believes that offense-dominant military practices hold significant advantages in contemporary interstate conflict. Either through...
U.S. Rebalance to Asia and Responses from China’s Research Community
Abstract The U.S. “pivot” or rebalance toward the Asia-Pacific region, under the Obama Administration, was viewed as a major...
The High Ground: The Case for U.S. Space Dominance
Abstract Modern society depends on satellites in space, and the United States relies on satellites more than any other...
Operation Inherent Resolve and the Islamic State: Assessing “Aggressive Containment”
Abstract Operation Inherent Resolve was originally conceived as a strategy to defeat the Islamic State by containing it territorially...
Gaining Trust While Losing Wars: Confidence in the U.S. Military after Iraq and Afghanistan
Abstract During unpopular wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the American public’s confidence in the U.S. military surprisingly rose to...