Tag: Military & Defense
114 Articles
- Conflict & Security
The US-NATO Relationship: The Cost of Maintaining Political Pressure on Allies
On July 29, 2020, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper announced the withdrawal of 11,900 US military personnel from Germany. This plan proposed to send roughly half of those troops…
January 15, 2021
- Conflict & Security
COVID-19 Yields a Sharper Picture of China-Taiwan Relations
On December 31, 2019, the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission posted a message on its website detailing a mysterious “viral pneumonia” emerging in the city. This information,…
December 7, 2020
- Global Governance
Indo-Pacific Needs the Third Pole, ASEAN+1
The United States and China seem to be competing on every front in their recent disputes over the WHO, WTO, 5G, outer space sovereignty, and trade. The matter of regional…
November 24, 2020
- Conflict & Security
The Modern Aim and Growth of the Brazilian Defense Industry
In March of this year, Brazil and the United States signed an agreement for the development of mutual defense capabilities, which was heralded as a significant step to the…
July 22, 2020
- Dialogues
Dr. Joseph Nye on “Do Morals Matter? Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump”
GJIA: In your new work “Do Morals Matter,” you ask a seemingly simple but ambitious question: “Do morals matter in American foreign policy, or is American moralism…
June 17, 2020
- Conflict & Security
Look to Idlib: A Preview of Warfare in the New Decade
Powerful capabilities and disruptive technologies were unleashed to devastating effect on the battlefield—all while combatants captured and uploaded the conflict onto social…
May 8, 2020
- Dialogues
Minister Kono Taro on the U.S.-Japan Alliance, Defense Policy, and the CPTPP
GJIA: It was sixty years ago in January 1960 when the Japan-United States Security Treaty was revised to mark the beginning of this alliance as we now know it. What is the…
May 4, 2020
- 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
Frameworks for Dissent and Principled Resignation in the US Military: A Primer
The Crozier affair should prompt senior military officers to contemplate situations in which ethics may demand a leader to express dissent, to resign, or even to disobey orders.…
April 17, 2020
- Forum
Preparing for the Inevitable: Climate Change and the Military
Vulnerabilities Sea level rise, extreme storms, extreme drought and heat, and Arctic ice melt all degrade security and military readiness. These are not future challenges; each…
March 18, 2020