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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg recently arrived in Washington seeking to persuade the White House and Congress to successfully negotiate legislation that would free up $60 billion to help Ukraine defend itself against Russian forces. He delivered his remarks...
Read more »Editor’s Note: This is the first article in a series on the future of US-UK relations. The second article can be found here. There was a time when the United Kingdom was regarded as the world leader in...
Read more »Editor’s Note: This is the second article in a series on the future of US-UK relations. The first article can be found here. The US-UK special relationship, one of the longest and closest bilateral relationships of the twentieth...
Read more »Editor’s Note: This article is the sixth annual “Trends in Terrorism” essay from global counterterrorism expert and FPRI non-resident Senior Fellow Colin Clarke. On the morning of October 7, Hamas terrorists breached the border fence between Gaza and...
Read more »In the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the United States has embarked upon an ambitious endeavor: containing its two most powerful rivals, China and Russia, at the same time. Central to this strategy is the imperative of...
Read more »Capitalists of the world unite! You have everything to lose, especially your supply chains. Just about a month ago, on June 18, Raytheon CEO Greg Hayes was quoted in the Financial Times as saying “We can de-risk, but we...
Read more »In the 2010s, the global landscape changed. The Arab Spring, the Russian occupation of Crimea, and China’s national security law in Hong Kong were indicative of a profound change in the global system. The era of the unipolar moment,...
Read more »Editor’s Note: This is the second article in a series on America’s national security system. The first article considers whether or not the legacy national security system of the United States organized around geographic regions is well-suited for strategic...
Read more »In the spring 1958 issue of Orbis, Robert Strausz-Hupé, Alvin J. Cottrell, James E. Dougherty and Virgil Ney grappled with the question of “protracted conflict” as a way to understand the “complex realities with which the statesman and the...
Read more »Abstract This article seeks a debate on the future of the US defense posture in the Great Power Competition. It contains a robust list of defense initiatives to consider in improving the US defense posture. Since the United States...
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