National Security

NATO Needs to Get Serious at Seventy-Five

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...

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The Special Relationship Is Dead: Bring Back British Statecraft

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...

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The US-UK Special Relationship: Time for a Reset, Not an End

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...

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Trends in Terrorism: What’s on the Horizon in 2024?

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...

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The Folly of Merging the Indo-Pacific and Europe

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...

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Government Push for Champions Could Have Firms Champing at the Bit

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...

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The Primacy Trap

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,...

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Geography, Bureaucracy, and National Security: The New Map

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...

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Editor’s Corner Summer 2023

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...

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Evaluating US Defense Posture in Light of Great Power Competition

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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