Tag: Military & Defense
111 Articles
- Conflict & Security
Catching Up: China’s Developing Military Power
By decoupling sensors from shooters and shooters from their command structures, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) could negate the battle networks that have helped make the U.…
January 6, 2020
- Conflict & Security
Russia’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 the…
December 12, 2019
- Global Governance
Collective Finance for NATO’s Collective Security
To achieve this goal, the United States should work with NATO to collectively finance its security. Here is how to start: NATO’s more creditworthy countries, which are mainly…
November 29, 2019
- Conflict & Security
False Positives in Thai Counterinsurgency
The insurgency began in January 2004. It currently involves three-and-a-half Muslim-Malay majority provinces in southern Thailand and has exacted a heavy human cost—roughly 7…
November 15, 2019
- Conflict & Security
False Positives in Thai Counterinsurgency
The insurgency began in January 2004. It currently involves three-and-a-half Muslim-Malay majority provinces in southern Thailand and has exacted a heavy human cost—roughly 7…
November 15, 2019
- Conflict & Security
Turkey, Erdogan, and the Kurds: War as a State-Building Strategy
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are an assembly of militias with Kurdish forces at the core. They are currently resisting Turkey’s widely condemned military assault on…
November 14, 2019
- Conflict & Security
The Trump-Kim Singapore Summit: After the Hype
Hyped Diplomacy Leading up to the meeting, media coverage was focused on Trump’s mercurial personality and idiosyncratic style. Indeed, Trump dispensed with many of the…
September 25, 2019
- Conflict & Security
The United States and its New Allies in Europe
Over the past several years, the United States has observed its influence in Europe progressively diminish, with Brussels increasingly pursuing policies that are regarded as…
July 15, 2019
- Conflict & Security
PART II: Rethinking Deterrence
So What Now? Applying the experiences of the Cold War to the United States’ present circumstances suggests that a renewed strategy of containment, backed by a nuclear, …
July 11, 2019
- Conflict & Security
PART I: Rethinking Deterrence
Today, the United States finds itself facing two near-peer competitors in Russia and China. Both are asserting their power and exhibiting expansionist tendencies. Both understand…
July 9, 2019