Tag: Arms
16 Articles
- Conflict & Security
Why the United States Doesn’t Need an “Arsenal for Democracy” – And What to do Instead
A Defense Industrial Base in Crisis? In his March 28 testimony on the Pentagon’s FY2024 budget request, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin told the Senate Armed Services…
May 22, 2023
- Conflict & Security
Engagement, not Entanglement: India’s Relationship with the Quad
Understanding the Quad As the geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific continue to dominate global headlines, discussions on the Quad remain rife. The concept of the Quad was sown in a…
May 1, 2023
- Global Governance
NATO, the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, and the 2022 Strategic Concept
The 2022 Strategic Concept The Russian invasion of Ukraine forced NATO to update its core tasks with a new Strategic Concept more attuned to the modern threat environment. NATO…
November 9, 2022
- Global Governance
First Steps for Possible U.S.-China Strategic Stability Talks
In a virtual meeting held in November 2021, U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed the possibility of holding strategic stability talks between the…
February 8, 2022
- Conflict & Security
The Dual Nature of China’s Nuclear Modernization
China’s nuclear weapons pose genuine threats to the United States and other nations. Disclosures in the summer of 2021 of China’s construction of several hundred missile…
December 29, 2021
- Science & Technology
Swords and Shields: Autonomy, AI, and the Offense-Defense Balance
Introduction Military machines can increasingly move, search for targets, and even kill without human control. Growing computer power coupled with advances in artificial…
November 22, 2021
- Human Rights & Development
Bahrain and the Conundrum of Democracy Promotion
Bahrain, a tiny island state off the coast of Saudi Arabia in the Persian Gulf, is a serious violator of human rights and good at pledging to mend its ways without following up…
June 14, 2021
- Conflict & Security
China’s Hypersonic Weapons
What are hypersonic weapons? Hypersonic weapons travel faster than Mach 5, or a speed of approximately 1.6 kilometers per second. Many traditional ballistic missiles re-enter…
January 27, 2021
- Conflict & Security
Libya’s Civil War: US Abdication Providing a Playground for Foreign Intervention
A central tenet of US policy towards Libya after Qaddafi was to prevent outside actors from intervening in the country’s internal affairs. In that spirit, the United States…
April 27, 2020
- Conflict & Security
Collateral Damage No More: Urban Conflict, Explosive Weapons, and a Case Study in Multilateral Norm Building
Twenty years after the UN Security Council first adopted the resolution on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict—and 70 years after the Geneva Conventions—the…
November 21, 2019