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…
Read More »Negating China’s High-Tech Cyber Threat
The United States is making progress in understanding the national security threat posed by China’s high-tech…
Read More »The New Geopolitical Imperatives in the Age of Cyberspace
Cyberspace has taken on full geopolitical significance, constituting a new dimension of power and redefining the…
Read More »The Hybrid Age: A New Paradigm of Geopolitical Power
The 21st century is characterized by a structural transformation of geopolitical power that can no longer…
Read More »The Second Nuclear Age Arrives: How Bracken’s Framework Explains America’s New Strategic Reality
The recent Wall Street Journal article on the emerging nuclear arms race between the United States,…
Read More »Language, Power and Digital Identity
Artificial Intelligence has the potential to rewrite the processes of civilization: which processes and for whom,…
Read More »Cyber Risks Overhead: Unmasking the Fragility of Satellite Communications
The leakage or destruction of data, whether through negligence or targeted attack on its transmission channels,…
Read More »From Crisis Response to Chaos Management: The USMC’s Strategic Evolution
For decades, the United States Marine Corps has been characterized as America’s premier crisis response force…
Read More »From Algorithms to Kilowatts: The Energy Challenge of Military AI
For several years now, the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has been transforming the armed forces…
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