Tag: Military & Defense
113 Articles
- 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
- Conflict & Security
Strengthening European Defense Capabilities: A Polish Perspective
Even as Poland celebrated the 20th anniversary of its accession to NATO last month, the assumptions Warsaw made in the 1990s are being tested by the recent onset of trans…
May 15, 2019
- Conflict & Security
Part II: The Re-Emerging Nuclear Dimension in Russian-European Relations
Reinventing Extended Deterrence Many European politicians find conceptual luggage from the Cold War era both awkward and inappropriate in the evolving new confrontation with…
May 7, 2019
- Conflict & Security
How and Why the Russian-Iranian-Hezbollah Axis Has Won the War in Syria
As opposed to Western powers, the pro-Assad bloc set political objectives that were compatible with the military means. Indeed, it has been a classic Clausewitzian limited war.…
May 5, 2019
- Conflict & Security
Part I: The Re-Emerging Nuclear Dimension in Russian-European Relations
Introduction Russia is anchored to Europe by so many vital ties that all other frontiers in its vast geography are of only secondary importance. In the course of the new and fast…
May 4, 2019
- Conflict & Security
U.S. Trans-Pacific and Trans-Atlantic Alliances: A Comparison
Similarities To date, East Asian and European allies have enjoyed relative safety under the patronage of the United States. Through formal alliance agreements, the United States…
January 6, 2019
- Science & Technology
A New Military Energy Imperative
This revelation is concerning on its own, but in the broader context of existing threats to our electricity access, it signals the need to reconsider our approach to critical…
June 6, 2018
- Conflict & Security
Overcoming Friendly Force Dilemmas: How the US Can Strengthen NATO and the EU
Over the last several years, major new challenges have confronted European security. Russia’s illegal land grab in Ukraine and ISIS-inspired transnational terrorism are two of…
May 17, 2018
