America’s Strategic Realists are Ignoring Fiscal Reality
The report of the National Defense Strategy Commission, “Providing for the Common Defense,” provided an excellent…
Read More »Russia Building Out Nuclear Capabilities in Its Fleet
During the Cold War two of Russia’s four fleets were nuclear ones, the Northern Fleet based…
Read More »Germany, Its Military and Shaping a Way Ahead: Strategic Focus, Allies and Creation of an Appropriate Force Structure
I spent a great deal of time in West Germany in the 1980s. I focused a…
Read More »Paul Bracken on Europe After Brexit
The UK is months away from leaving the European Union, with the terms of the exit…
Read More »The Future of Nordic Cooperation
In a new report produced under the aegis of NORDEFCO, the Nordic cooperation effort is assessed…
Read More »The Coming of Hanseatic League 2.0
Europe is the throes of fundamental change. We argued earlier that from the Cold War, to…
Read More »Oil and War
In this article by Captain Paul E. Mawn USN (Retired), the author looks at the evolution…
Read More »Vertical Farming and Soft Power
Whatever one’s religious belief, we can all can acknowledge that World War II was the closest…
Read More »A National Security Perspective on Vertical Farming: Reducing Supply Chain Vulnerabilities
Since the very earliest wars, battlefield commanders have known that a successful strategy is to use…
Read More »Chinese Arctic Ambitions: The Challenge for Greenland
“The strong do what they can, and the weak suffer as they may,” says the 2500-year-old…
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