When a Navy Draws Moral Lines at Sea
A brief CNN exchange in 2022 has enjoyed a long afterlife online. Don Lemon asked whether…
Read More »The Iranian War Can Come Home: The F-35 as America’s Monitor
Preamble The operation in Iran is not simply an external action. It raises directly concerns about…
Read More »From Decisive Victory to Narrative Victory: War in the Age of Permanent Competition
For more than two centuries, Western strategic thought rested on a relatively stable grammar: wars began,…
Read More »Australia’s Drone Wake-Up Call: The Lessons Are Already Written
Iran’s drone and missile campaign against the U.S. and U.S. allies has once again focused attention…
Read More »Enabling the Marine Corps Transition to Distributed Maritime Operations
The United States Marine Corps stands at a strategic inflection point. Facing peer competitors with advanced…
Read More »Ukraine as Furnace of the New Global Order
For three decades, much of the Western debate treated Ukraine as a difficult policy problem on…
Read More »From Strategy to Diplomacy: Colby’s Seoul Speech and the Operationalization of Flexible Realism
Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby’s January 26 remarks at Seoul’s Sejong Institute represent…
Read More »The Anarchy of the Moment: Australia’s Race Between Military Transformation and Strategic Vulnerability
Australia faces a strategic paradox that defines its defense transformation in the 2020s: the Australian Defence…
Read More »Restoring Strategic Coherence: The 2026 National Defense Strategy as Industrial and Operational Realism
The 2026 National Defense Strategy has generated considerable controversy for its blunt language about allied burden-sharing…
Read More »How to Characterize the U.S. Intervention in Venezuela: Bold Global Geopolitical Move or Neo-Imperialism?
The Trump Administration’s intervention in Venezuela is certainly dramatic and controversial. But what I find fascinating…
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