Crafting a Force for Full-Spectrum Crisis Management: The F-35 and the Kill Web
The liberal democracies are facing a key strategic shift from a primary focus on the land…
Read More »Launch of Committee on the Present Danger: China
On March 24, 2019, a “Committee on the Present Danger:China” was launched in Washington DC. According…
Read More »Acting Secretary of Defense Shanahan Should Not Channel Gates: Accelerate Not Reverse Airpower Modernization
It might be of use if the Acting Secretary of Defense (SECDEF) read his own National…
Read More »Putting Putin’s Poseidon Into the Cross-Hairs
Is President Putin diabolically smart or simply a psychopath? As Putin put it once: “Once a…
Read More »Russia’s Crisis Management Strategy
We have been focusing for some time on the strategic shift towards managing peer conflict and…
Read More »Defining Victory Over ISIS: A View From 2017
In an article which we published in Breaking Defense on January 19, 2017, we focused on…
Read More »French Nuclear Weapons and Deterrence in Post-Brexit Europe
The Cold War has not returned; but the Russians have. And the nature of the Russian…
Read More »The Return of Direct Defense in Europe: Russia and the Role of Nuclear Weapons
Although the Cold War is not back, the Russians are. And the Russian challenge is being…
Read More »The Need for an Australian National Security Strategy: The Economic Dimension
The financial and economic indicators that signal the start of a downturn are evident in advanced…
Read More »Chancellor Merkel and Deterrence in Europe
A number of European nations are looking to enhance their capacities for direct defense and deterrence…
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