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Reflections on the “Other Crisis” of 1962: China and India
Abstract John F. Kennedy confronted a second major crisis in 1962: the Chinese invasion of India, which threatened the territorial integrity of the world’s largest democracy. India appealed for and received US military aid in a major airlift. Kennedy...
Read more »Revisiting Naval Power in World War II
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Read more »Avoiding the Geoeconomic Domino Theory
Abstract The recent US emphasis on a geoeconomic confrontation with China in the developing states could spawn an economic version of the domino theory. Geoeconomic domino theory assumes that if Beijing’s economic influence is not stopped in a developing state,...
Read more »Developing an Effective US Defense Strategy Against China
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Read more »Henry Cabot Lodge, Hawaii, and the Shift from Continental to Hemispheric Defense
Abstract Over the course of the 1890s, the United States shifted from a continental defense model toward a hemispheric one. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge (R-MA) was a leading proponent of this shift. Lodge was convinced that the United States...
Read more »Central Asian Countries: Learning to Live Next to the Taliban
Abstract With the withdrawal of the US and coalition forces from Afghanistan and the rapid takeover by the Taliban, most Central Asian governments recognized the Taliban in a pragmatic decision to peacefully coexist with the neighboring extremist regime that...
Read more »Separatists and Spoilers: The UAE’s Way of Proxy Warfare
Abstract This article examines the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE’s) involvement in proxy warfare in the Middle East and the Horn of Africa. The UAE’s security posture in these volatile regions has evolved remarkably over the last two decades and...
Read more »The Cuban Missile Crisis after Sixty Years
Abstract The sixtieth anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis is an appropriate time to review the events—arguably the closest the world has come to nuclear war—from the perspective of 2022. Growing tensions between Moscow and Washington and increasing Cuba...
Read more »Editor’s Corner Summer 2022
During the May 2022 forum that the Project for the Study of the 21st Century convened on “The Future of Conflict,” Nigel Inkster, the former Director for Operations and Intelligence of the UK Secret Intelligence Service, and Doug Ollivant,...
Read more »The Fundamental Role of International (Criminal) Law in the War in Ukraine
Abstract The repercussions of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are reverberating around the world. The multilateral and coordinated response of the international community to Russia’s unprovoked war in Ukraine was immediate and has been waged on multiple fronts. While the...
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