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“Defense Industrial Base”
Aligning the U.S. and Canadian Defense Industrial Bases
Christopher Zember
and
Jerry McGinn
At a Glance: the U.S. Defense Industrial Base
Cogs of War Staff
These Materials Could Cripple America’s Defense Industrial Base
Macdonald Amoah
,
Morgan Bazilian
,
Clarkson Kamurai
, and
Jahara Matisek
Strengthening Britain’s Defense Industrial Base
Joseph Wehmeyer
The Cost of Sovereignty? The Future of Britain’s Defense Industrial Base
William Reynolds
Rewind and Reconnoiter: The Evolving Geography of the U.S. Defense Industrial Base with Doug Berenson
Doug Berenson
The Evolving Geography of the U.S. Defense Industrial Base
Doug Berenson
Eisenhower Meets Trump: A New Defense Industrial Base Strategy
Stephen Rodriguez
Sick Defense: How to Foster an Affordable, Innovative Defense Industrial Base
Ryan Brukardt
,
Eric Chewning
,
Lorraine Hammer
,
John G. McGinn
, and
Stephen Rodriguez
A Guide to Refactoring the Defense-Industrial Base
Shands Pickett
and
Zach Beecher
Understanding the Defense Department’s Industrial Base Problems
Jeff Decker
,
Noah Sheinbaum
, and
Marshall Kosloff
The Cop on the Corner Is Our First Line of Defense: Local Police and the Surveillance Detection Gap
Matt White
A Formal Defense Pact in the Indo-Pacific Is the Wrong Answer
Ryosuke Hanada
When the Rules Fail: Tax Incentives and Defense Sustainment
Kevin Consedine
How NATO’s Air Defense Future Is Unfolding
Shaan Shaikh
Closing the Air and Missile Defense Gap in the Indo-Pacific
Christopher J. Watterson
and
Peter J. Dean
Sharpening Signals and Reducing Noise for Better Defense Budgets
Mark Mitchum
The Arsenal as the Battlefield: The War on Iran and the Return of Counter-Industrial Targeting
Tyler Hacker
,
Greg Malandrino
, and
Evan Braden Montgomery
Hellscape Taiwan: A Porcupine Defense in the Drone Age
Stacie Pettyjohn
and
Molly Campbell
The Danger of Vibe Patriotism in Defense Tech
Ben Buchheim-Jurisson
Magazine Breadth — Not Just Depth — Is Key to Munitions Industrial Base Resilience
Jerry McGinn
Why a $1.5 Trillion Defense Budget Request Might Slow the Pentagon’s Reform Efforts
Matt Vallone
The Transatlantic Defense Business Politics Can’t Break
Wendy R. Anderson
and
Julianne Smith
Will These Four Defense Innovation Reforms Improve Industry’s Lot?
Madeline Field
Biodefense Blind Spot: Why Washington Confuses Pandemics with Bioweapons
Junaid Nabi
Key Takeaways from the New National Defense Strategy
Kelly Magsamen
,
Joshua Treviño
,
Frank Hoffman
, and
Justin Logan
The Organic Industrial Base and the Risks of Competing Against Ourselves
Kevin Consedine
Key Elements of the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act
Matt Vallone
,
Steven Wills
,
Katherine Kuzminski
, and
Max Bergmann
A Changing World, a Constant Priority: China’s Homeland Defense
Shanshan Mei
and
Dennis J. Blasko
The Additive Manufacturing Mirage in Defense
John Borrego
Europe’s New Lines of Defense Are Not Maginot 2.0
Sam Rosenberg
Racing Against Time: Realizing a True Defense Industrial Enterprise
Gen. (ret.) CQ Brown, Jr.
Two Dangerous Assumptions in U.S. Defense Planning and How to Fix Them
Noel Williams
Examining House-Senate Differences in FY2026 Defense Appropriations
Madeline Field
Denial Won’t Do: Europe Needs a Punishment-Based Conventional Counterstrike Strategy
Fabian Hoffmann
A Skeptic’s View of the Hype Machine and Business Model of Neo-Defense Tech
Jonathan Panter
Investing in Ukraine’s Defense Edge: A Conversation with Perry Boyle
Perry Boyle
How the One Big Beautiful Bill Act Will Shape Key Defense Priorities
Heather Williams
,
Katherine Kuzminski
,
Shaan Shaikh
,
Steven Wills
, and
Sam Wilson
Titans, Trailblazers, and Translators: Forging a Unified Defense Industrial Paradigm
Austin Gray
and
Stephen Rodriguez
Putting the Defense Industry Through Wargames
Sandra R. Thomas
Steel and Silicon: Shipbuilding’s Defense Tech Moment
Austin Gray
Giants and the Myth of America’s New Defense Consolidation
Dustin Walker
Another Last Supper and a New Era of Defense Giants
Nicholas Hooper
Friends with Limits: The Future of Russo-Indian Defense Ties
Daniel Markey
and
David Brostoff
In Brief: Will the European Union’s New Loan Instrument Be Effective in Boosting Defense Capabilities?
Anna Dowd
,
Otto Svendsen
,
Gesine Weber
, and
Emma Salisbury
Taiwan’s Biggest Limitation in Defense Isn’t Spending, It’s Late Deliveries from U.S. Defense Companies
Kevin Ting-Chen Sun
and
Howard Shen
A Skills Shortage Plagues British Defense
Calvin Bailey, MP
Finding Adversaries Hiding in the Defense Department’s Supply Chains
Christine Michienzi
How to Get the Most Out of the U.S.-Indian Defense Partnership
Sameer Lalwani
and
Vikram J. Singh
The Implications of a Second Trump Presidency for Europe’s Defense-Industrial Efforts
Lucas F. Hellemeier
American Defense Planning in the Shadow of Protracted War
Evan Braden Montgomery
and
Julian Ouellet
Escaping Russia’s Backyard: Armenia’s Strategic Defense Shift
Leonid Nersisyan
and
Sergei Melkonian
In Brief: The Rise of “Non-Traditional” Defense Companies
Jacqueline Tame
,
Shyam Sankar
,
Justin Johnson
,
Doug Berenson
,
Stephen Rodriguez
, and
Matt Byington
Overcoming Goliath: How the Defense Establishment Can Maximize Allied Innovation
Nick Iorio
and
Scott DeWitt
Don’t Ever Invade China: Xi Jinping Prioritizes Border, Coastal, and Air Defense
Shanshan Mei
and
Dennis J. Blasko
Three Visions for NATO Air and Missile Defense
Shaan Shaikh
Russia’s Mercenary-Industrial Complex in Africa
Christopher Faulkner
and
Raphael Parens
Every Arsenal Needs Its Fans: The Missing Piece in the National Defense Industrial Strategy Is Voters
Dan Vallone
Crowning Achievement? Kaan and the Turkish Defense Industry
Rebecca Lucas
and
Stuart Dee
Why Increasing the Value of Defense Primes Is Good for the Country
Shyam Sankar
Innovation Adoption for All: Scaling Across the Department of Defense
Robert Work
,
Michael Brown
, and
Ellen Lord
STEMming the Crisis: Immigration and the U.S. National Security Talent Base
Rachel Hoff
and
Reed Kessler
In Brief: Europe’s New Defense Industrial Strategy
Ulrike Franke
,
Franz-Stefan Gady
,
Paula Alvarez-Couceiro Fernandez
,
Daniel Fiott
,
Kaija Schilde
, and
Luis Simón
Rewind and Reconnoiter: Defense Industrial Innovation with Stephen Rodriguez
Stephen Rodriguez
Debating the New National Defense Industrial Strategy
Christopher Preble
,
Zack Cooper
, and
Melanie Marlowe
In Brief: The National Defense Industrial Strategy
Elaine McCusker
,
Tara Murphy Dougherty
,
Clint Hinote
, and
Jeff Decker
One Size Fits None: The United States Needs a Grand Defense Industrial Strategy
Jonathan Caverley
,
Ethan Kapstein
, and
Jennifer Kavanagh
Getting Serious About Enhancing U.S. Defense Partnerships
Raanan Horowitz
and
Stan Crow
The Sinking Submarine Industrial Base
Emma Salisbury
Alliance Assignments: Defense Priorities for Key NATO States
Stephen Flanagan
and
Anna M. Dowd
Welcome to Cyber Realism: Parsing the 2023 Department of Defense Cyber Strategy
Emerson T. Brooking
and
Erica Lonergan
Scaling the Future: How Replicator Aims to Fast-Track U.S. Defense Capabilities
Lauren Kahn
The Biodefense Posture Review Needs Focus to Succeed
Al Mauroni
It’s Time to Build Combined Forward Operating Base Sierra Madre
Blake Herzinger
You Go to War With the Industrial Base You Have, Not the Industrial Base You Want
John Barrett
What Allies Want: Delivering the U.S. National Defense Strategy’s Ambition on Allies and Partners
Sean Monaghan
and
Deborah Cheverton
Maintaining the U.S. Defense Sector’s Competitive Edge
Kurt Scherer
and
Fatih Ozmen
Defense and Capital: Venture and Debt
Ryan Evans
,
Dan Gwak
, and
James Parker
Six Lessons from Ukraine for Japanese Defense Planners
Jeffrey W. Hornung
Europe Should Not Try to Go It Alone on Defense
Brian Burton
Europe at a Strategic Disadvantage: A Fragmented Defense Industry
Paula Alvarez-Couceiro Fernandez
Prime Time for Software: Reimagining the Future of Defense Acquisition
Christine H. Fox
and
Akash Jain
How the Ukraine War Accelerates the Defense Strategy
Jim Mitre
Learning Lessons from Ukraine: Is Defense Dominant?
Christopher Preble
,
Zack Cooper
, and
Melanie Marlowe
Leveraging U.S. Capital Markets to Support the Future Industrial Network
Joseph L. Votel
,
Francis A. Finelli
, and
Samuel Cole
American Defense Priorities After Ukraine
Frank Hoffman
Fixing Defense Innovation: Rewriting Acquisition and Security Regulations
Jules Hurst
A K-Arsenal of Democracy? South Korea and U.S. Allied Defense Procurement
Peter K. Lee
and
Tom Corben
A Confidence-Building Defense for NATO
Lukas Mengelkamp
,
Alexander Graef
, and
Ulrich Kühn
What Artillery and Air Defense Does Ukraine Need Now?
Michael Jacobson
Beware of Potemkin: Germany’s Defense Rethink Risks Reinforcing Old Habits
Torben Schütz
,
Joseph Verbovszky
, and
Heiko Borchert
Reboot the Defense Innovation Ecosystem
Shands Pickett
Startups and the Defense Department’s Compliance Labyrinth
Daniel K. Lim
Not a Divorce but a Defense Decoupling: What’s Next for the U.S.-Turkish Alliance
Aaron Stein
Senate Commission to Fix Defense Budgeting Is Right on the Mark
John Whitley
and
Gregory Pejic
Beyond Biological Defense: Maintaining the U.S. Biotechnology Advantage
Rob Carlson
,
Chad Sbragia
, and
Kate Sixt
Time for a New Approach to Defense Strategy
Michael J. Mazarr
Autonomy, Cacophony, or Coherence? The Future of European Defense
Robert Dalsjö
and
Michael Jonsson
ARIA to Progress? The British Advanced Research and Invention Agency Should Learn More from Defense
Emma Salisbury
The U.S. Defense Industry in a New Era
Doug Berenson
,
Chris Higgins
, and
Jim Tinsley
The Next National Defense Strategy
Benjamin Jensen
and
Nathan Packard
Strengthening Industrial Base Decision-Making for Precision-Guided Munitions
Julie C. Kelly
,
Daniel E. Lago
, and
James S. Thomason
The Emperors League: Understanding Sino-Russian Defense Cooperation
Michael Kofman
It’s Time for the Defense Production Act’s Digital Transformation
Jay Long
How Plummeting Fuel Prices and Reduced Operations Could Free Up Billions of Defense Dollars
Michael Baskin
and
Konrad Gessler
The Defense Production Act and the Failure to Prepare for Catastrophic Incidents
Jared Brown
The History of the Defense Production Act and What it Means for COVID-19
Dan Else
Wartime Lessons for Industrial Mobilization in a Time of Pandemic
Stephen Biddle
and
Tami Davis Biddle
Beyond “Conventional Wisdom”: Evaluating the PLA’s South China Sea Bases in Operational Context
J. Michael Dahm
Strategy or Straitjacket? Three Reasons Why People Are Still Arguing About the National Defense Strategy
Christopher Dougherty
A New Idea for Fighting Chinese Theft of American Defense Technology
Kevin Carroll
The Importance of Being Protectionist: A Long View of the European Defense Fund
Sophia Besch
and
Martin Quencez
‘Hard Choices’ and Strategic Insolvency: Where the National Defense Strategy Falls Short
Rick Berger
and
Mackenzie Eaglen
What Does “European Defense” Look Like? The Answer Might Be in the Sahel
Quentin Lopinot
Marine Warbot Companies: Where Naval Warfare, the U.S. National Defense Strategy, and Close Combat Lethality Task Force Intersect
Jeff Cummings
,
Scott Cuomo
,
Olivia Garard
, and
Noah Spataro
War in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Defense Spending Gets a Reprieve from Austerity Politics…For Now
Matt Vallone
Commercial Accelerators and the Defense Department: A Blueprint for Collaboration
Joshua Israel
To Help NATO Allies Get Off Russian Equipment, the United States Should Revive Defense Lending
Max Bergmann
The Next Military-Industrial Complex, Part II: Global Business and National Security
Philip D. O’Neill, Jr.
Hedging Our Bets: Reviving Defense Industrial Surge Capacity
Rep. Mike Gallagher
Don’t Believe the NDAA Hype: Congressional Appropriations Will Determine Defense Spending Levels
Matt Vallone
The Next Military-Industrial Complex, Part I: Riding Venture Capital’s Coattails
Philip D. O’Neill, Jr.
Between Autonomy and Cooperation: The Role of Allies in France’s New Defense Strategy
Alice Pannier
Towards Total Defense Manufacturing Visibility
Rep. Mike Gallagher
Long Wars and Industrial Mobilization: It Won’t Be World War II Again
Mark Cancian
Washington Might Feel the Chill of a More United European Defense
Stanley R. Sloan
Good to Great: Innovation in the Industrial Base
Stephen Rodriguez
The Ten Main Defense Challenges Facing Macron’s France
Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer
Penny Wise, Pound Foolish: Trump’s Misguided Views of European Defense Spending
Richard Sokolsky
and
Gordon Adams
Super Hornets, Eh? Canadian Airpower Falls Short on North American Defense
Gary Schaub, Jr.
and
Richard Shimooka
How Much Will Donald Trump Really Spend on Defense?
Mackenzie Eaglen
and
Rick Berger
Hold the Champagne: India’s Fighter Deal with France Portends Trouble for Western Defense Companies
Daniel Yoon
Long Range Strike: 3 Lessons from Defense Contracting that Tell us the Air Force’s New Bomber is Ready to Move Forward
Andrew Hunter
Four Steps the Department of Defense Can Take to Fix its Broken Personnel System
Rob Albritton
One Defense: Bridging the Pentagon and Silicon Valley
Stephen Rodriguez
and
Gregg Sypeck
The Defense Reform America Deserves
Justin T. Johnson
Five New Rules for Defense Innovation
Stephen Rodriguez
and
Sam Zega
Wake Me Up When September Ends: America’s Defense Budget Blues
Matt Vallone
5 Questions with Sen. John McCain on Defense Acquisition Reform and Drinking with Deng
Ryan Evans
How Congress is Hamstringing the Defense Industrial Sector
Matt Vallone
A New Model of U.S. Defense Cooperation
Patrick Cronin
and
Audrey Kurth Cronin
The Imperative of Defense Reform: Serious Challenges for a Serious SecDef
John G. McGinn
,
Stephen Rodriguez
, and
Peter Lichtenbaum
A Deepening Defense Relationship on India’s Republic Day
Stephen Tankel
We Can’t Expect Strategy from the National Defense Panel
Thomas Lynch
A New Defense Innovation Base
Adam Jay Harrison
,
Jawad Rachami
, and
Christopher Zember
Congress’s Defense Program
Anonymous
South Korea’s 500,000 Drone Warriors Will Be a Hollow Force
Min-Cheol Jung
Acquisition Reform Needs Its Own Wargame
Stephen Bittner
Correcting Course in the Indo‑Pacific
Luke Collin
Rethinking Corporate Risk and Alignment in an Era of Economic Statecraft
Gen. (ret.) Timothy Ray
Rethinking Security Cooperation in the Age of Commercial Tech
Jarrett Lane
Tactical Success, Strategic Failure? Washington Walks the Path to Defeat in Iran
Ryan Evans
A Closed Strait of Hormuz Risks a Global Food Security Crisis
Morgan D. Bazilian
,
Gabriel Collins
, and
Jahara Matisek
Iran’s Asymmetric Counterair Campaign: Attacking the U.S. Air Force’s Nests and Eggs
Maximilian K. Bremer
and
Kelly A. Grieco
The Pentagon Wants Dual-Use Innovation. Patent Law Might Punish It.
Tony Rowles
The Next Transformation of U.S. Shipbuilding
Eric Chewning
Military Senior Service Colleges Require Reform, But There Sure Are Some Bad Ideas Out There
Bradford T. Duplessis
The Arsenal Beneath the Arsenal
Michael Cadenazzi
and
Ryan Evans
Economic Statecraft and the Federal Institutional Architecture
William Norris
Why Russia’s Export Failures Matter For India
Vasabjit Banerjee
and
Benjamin Tkach
Economic Statecraft Is Back. Is America Ready?
Nicholas Hanson
and
Madeline Field
The Primes Aren’t the Real Bottleneck in U.S. Weapons Production
Menny Shalom
Ships or Munitions? Clarifying the Discussion on Unmanned Surface Vessels
Aaron Marchant
Can the 15th Five-Year Plan Fix the People’s Liberation Army’s Procurement Bottlenecks?
Jessica C. Liao
and
Joshua Arostegui
What Thucydides Really Thought About Technology and War
Bret Devereaux
An Industry Guide to the FY2026 NDAA
Madeline Field
The 2025 War on the Rocks Holiday Reading List
WOTR Staff
How Washington Is Losing the AI Race No One Is Tracking
Javaid Iqbal Sofi
Without a Standard for Autonomy, the U.S. Military Will Get Lost in the Fog of War
Randy Yamada
and
Tom Schaefer
The Air Force is Kneecapping Software Innovation
Noah Sheinbaum
Beyond Decision Superiority: The Role of Intelligence in Innovation & Adaptation
Michael Borja
Sequencing Over Simultaneity: How to Avert a Two-Front War
Nick Danby
Guns, Oil, and Dependence: Can the Russo-Indian Partnership Be Torpedoed?
Vasabjit Banerjee
and
Tina Dolbaia
The Pentagon’s Software Revolution and Its Testing Dilemma
Douglas C. Schmidt
and
Nickolas H. Guertin
Tanks, Tech, and Tungsten: The Strategic Mineral Alliance the West Needs
Fabian E. Villalobos
,
Khrystyna Holynska
, and
Peter Handley
Contribute to Cogs of War
Madeline Field
Nuclear Deterrence is NATO’s Best Weapon Against Russia
Tyler Bowen
Readiness and the Logistics Deterrent Effect
Patrick Kelleher
Toward a New Grand Design? Reviving Sully’s Legacy in European Strategic Thought
Iskander Rehman
China’s Mineral Monopoly Demands Renewing the Development Finance Corporation
Ben Kallas
AUKUS Aftershocks: France’s Enduring Indo-Pacific Interests
Gesine Weber
and
Edgar Tam
The SPEED and FoRGED Acts Compared
Madeline Field
How the Arsenal of Democracy Can Get Back on its Feet with Some Help from the Past
Tyler Hacker
Three Alternative Approaches to Deterrence in Europe and the Indo-Pacific
Luis Simón
The Future of Africa Command
Michael Rubin
,
Maureen Farrell
,
Jennifer Kavanagh
, and
Benjamin Friedman
Introducing Cogs of War
Ryan Evans
The Army’s Upcoming Transformation, with Secretary Driscoll and Gen. George
Secretary of the Army Daniel Driscoll
,
Gen. Randy George
, and
Ryan Evans
Modernization as Readiness in the U.S. Marine Corps
Keenan Chirhart
and
Scott Humr
Realizing America’s Drone Revolution
Nathan Ecelbarger
In Brief: How to Improve the Foreign Military Sales Process
Jennifer Kavanagh
,
Jonathan Caverley
,
William D. Hartung
, and
Jen Spindel
The Special Sauce: How Hegseth’s Software Memo Can Start a Revolution
Lauren Dailey
and
David Rothzeid
Putting the Screws on the Partnership Between North Korea and Russia
Choong-Koo Lee
It’s Time to Build the Digital Century Series
Ben McNally
The Rise of the Fake Tech Workforce: State-Sponsored Infiltration of U.S. Technical Supply Chains
Nathaniel Davis
and
Nina Kollars
The Trump Administration vs the ‘Axis of Upheaval’?
Luis Simón
Stealth and Scale: Quality, Quantity, and Modern Military Power
Michael Horowitz
and
Joshua Schwartz
America is Not Prepared for a Protracted War
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
In Brief: Europe’s Changing Security Landscape
Ulrike Franke
,
Thibaud Harrois
,
Ian Bond
,
Gesine Weber
,
Alexander Lanoszka
, and
Franz-Stefan Gady
Rethinking the Role of a Systems Integrator for Artificial Intelligence
Jim Rebesco
and
Anthony Manganiello
Shifting the U.S.-Japan Alliance from Coordination to Integration
Jeffrey W. Hornung
and
Zack Cooper
Batteries as a Military Enabler
Joseph Webster
Developing an Economic Security Agenda for NATO
Anna M. Dowd
and
Dominik Jankowski
A Conversation with Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall
Frank Kendall
and
Ryan Evans
American Military-Civil Fusion at Risk with the Loss of the Shift Fellowship
Jake Chapman
Win-Wind: How a Bipartisan SHIPS Act Could Meet China and Climate Challenges
Joseph Webster
In Brief: NATO Enlargement
Heli Hautala
,
Minna Ålander
,
Gen. Michael Claesson
,
Nicholas Lokker
, and
Magnus Christiansson
Hold, Build, and Strike: A Vision for Rebuilding Ukraine’s Advantage in 2024
Michael Kofman
,
Rob Lee
, and
Dara Massicot
Rocket-Powered Corruption: Why the Missile Industry Became the Target of Xi’s Purge
Elliot Ji
The Military’s Insistence on Owning Commercial Intellectual Property is Limiting Innovation
Shyam Sankar
,
Caitlin Dohrman
, and
Madeline Zimmerman
Why U.S. Naval Power Needs Asian Allies
Choi Kang
and
Peter K. Lee
Rewind and Reconnoiter: Turkey’s Drone Technology with Aaron Stein
Aaron Stein
Most Read War On The Rocks Articles of 2023
WOTR Staff
The True Military Assistance Tradeoff Is Between Israel and Taiwan
Jennifer Kavanagh
and
Jordan Cohen
Japan’s Play for Today: Too Much? Just Right? Or Never Enough?
Jeffrey W. Hornung
The U.S. Government Should Stockpile More Critical Minerals
Gregory Wischer
and
Jack Little
Commoditized Weapons in Ukraine: Are the Allies Getting the Procurement Right?
Jonathan Caverley
and
Ethan Kapstein
Getting Serious About Security Cooperation
Douglas A. Ollivant
In the Dark: How the Pentagon’s Limited Supplier Visibility Risks U.S. National Security
Nicholas Jordan
and
Jennifer Mapp
What Washington Gets Wrong About Deterrence
Raphael S. Cohen
Money Isn’t Enough: Getting Serious About Precision Munitions
Tyler Hacker
Bind Ukraine Closer to American Military Learning
Ryan Evans
Building A New American Arsenal
Julia van der Colff
Munitions Return to a Place of Prominence in National Security
Vasabjit Banerjee
and
Benjamin Tkach
U.S. Security Assistance to Ukraine is Going to Get Complicated
Max Bergmann
It’s Time to Recognize Sustainment as a Strategic Imperative
Antulio J. Echevarria
America’s Hidden Tool is Hobbling Russia’s War Machine with Multilateral Impact
Deputy Secretary Don Graves
The Real Reasons for Taiwan’s Arms Backlog — and How to Help Fill It
Jennifer Kavanagh
and
Jordan Cohen
Ukraine and the New Two War Construct
Raphael S. Cohen
How Doctrine and Delineation Can Help Defeat Drones
Nicholas Paul Pacheco
Don’t Let Zeitenwende Get Derailed
Sophia Besch
and
Liana Fix
Winter in Europe
Nick Danforth
Reliance on Dual-Use Technology Is a Trap
Jake Chapman
The Other Big Lessons That the U.S. Army Should Learn from Ukraine
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Priors and Prejudice: Planning the U.S. Navy’s Future
Emma Salisbury
Rebooting the Arsenal of Democracy
Trae Stephens
Will Finland and Sweden Joining NATO Deepen the Alliance’s Problems?
Zachary Selden
Waking a Sleeping Giant: What’s Next for German Security Policy?
Sophia Besch
and
Sarah Brockmeier
Lessons from the Littoral Combat Ship
Emma Salisbury
More Than Just a Fire: The Bonnie Dick Reveals a Navy in Shambles
Seth Cropsey
and
Harry Halem
China Flaunts Its Offensive Cyber Power
J.D. Work
Avoiding a Collision Course With India
Sameer Lalwani
and
Tyler Sagerstrom
New Tools to Create Time and Information: “Building the Bike While We Ride It”
Gen. Glen D. VanHerck
Gradually and Then Suddenly: Explaining the Navy’s Strategic Bankruptcy
Christopher Dougherty
AI and Synthetic Biology Are Critical to Future U.S. Competitiveness
Robert Work
Bring Back the Air Force Battle Lab
Mike Benitez
When the Chips Are Down: Policy Priorities for Sustaining U.S. Semiconductor Leadership
Jeffrey D. Bean
and
Stephen Ezell
U.S. Nuclear Modernization: How to Manage the Security and Policy Implications of Going Digital
Erin Dumbacher
Steering in the Right Direction in the Military-Technical Revolution
Robert Work
,
James A. Winnefeld, Jr.
, and
Stephanie O’Sullivan
Is Esper’s New Plan for the Navy Enough for the Indo-Pacific?
Mark Montgomery
Cyber Competition and Nonstate Actors in a Data-Rich World
Nina Kollars
Why You Can’t Call in an Air Strike with an iPhone
Jonathan Wong
The Humble Task of Implementation is the Key to AI Dominance
Matthew Cook
The Pandemic and America’s Response to Future Bioweapons
Andrea Howard
How Will the Pandemic Affect National Security Innovation?
Rachel Olney
Pandemics and the Future of Military Training
Jennifer McArdle
,
Thomas Kehr
, and
Gene Colabatistto
The U.S. Military’s Investment Ecosystem is Missing in Action
Stephen Rodriguez
Fear Not Technological Disengagement and Competition with China
Jack Bianchi
Backing the Corps: Ensuring the Future of the Amphibious Force
Rep. Rob Wittman
Anticipating a New Russian Military Doctrine in 2020: What it Might Contain and Why it Matters
Dara Massicot
What if the U.S. Military Neglects AI? AI Futures and U.S. Incapacity
Zachary Kallenborn
Artificial Intelligence Meets Bureaucratic Politics
Andrew Imbrie
The Case Against Arms Embargos, Even for Saudi Arabia
Ray Rounds
The Russian Missile that Could End the U.S.-Turkish Alliance
Aaron Stein
The Rift Between Silicon Valley and the Pentagon Is Economic, Not Moral
Rachel Olney
Biotechnology for the Battlefield: In Need of a Strategy
Diane DiEuliis
Rosie the CNC Machinist: American Manufacturing as a Warfare Domain
Joe Duggan
Defending Forward: The 2018 Cyber Strategy Is Here
Nina Kollars
and
Jacquelyn Schneider
But First, Infrastructure: Creating the Conditions for Artificial Intelligence to Thrive in the Pentagon
Richard Kuzma
America’s Arms Sales Policy: Security Abroad, Not Jobs at Home
Jonathan Caverley
The Trump Administration is at a Crossroads on China Trade Policy
Aaron Friedberg
Chasing Grandeur? What You Need to Know About the 2017 French Strategic Review
Guillaume Lasconjarias
and
Florent de Saint-Victor
A Business Approach to America’s Warfighting Model
Benjamin Jensen
,
Neil Hollenbeck
, and
Arnel David
Cyber Attacks on Critical Infrastructure: Insights from War Gaming
Jacquelyn Schneider
It’s Not About the FAR, It’s About Building Relationships
Jackie Space
From Strategy to Execution: Accelerating the Third Offset
Joshua Pavluk
and
August Cole
DIUx 2.0 Should Focus on Forging Pathways for Innovation
Patrick Ryan
How Good Are They? The Latest Insights into China’s Military Tech
Andrew Erickson
It is Time for the U.S. Military to Innovate Like Insurgents
Brent Chapman
,
Matt Hutchison
, and
Erick Waage
Black Swans and Pink Flamingos: Five Principles for Force Design
Frank Hoffman
Improving Security Cooperation: A Win-Win
Peter Lichtenbaum
,
John G. McGinn
,
Matt Breen
, and
Adam Cushing
Needed Now: A Realistic Strategy Force Structure for the 21st Century
Harlan Ullman
Exploring a New Offset Strategy: What the Experts Say
Alexandra Sander
Offset 3.0, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Commercial Technology
Adam Jay Harrison
No More Solitude: How To Make DoD the Next Google
Adam Jay Harrison
and
Stephen Rodriguez
Maliki’s Visit: The Three S-Words
Douglas A. Ollivant
Regulatory Friendly Fire: How ITAR Undermines the Alliance It Was Built to Protect
Gregory Kausner
Restrain and Hedge: A New U.S. Nuclear Strategy for a Two-Peer World
Tyler Bowen
Cyber Operations Aren’t Slow — Our Thinking Is
Timothy N. Neslony
Closing the Gap? Italy Sets New Rules for Its First National Security Strategy Amidst Old Obstacles
Lorenzo Termine
,
Gabriele Natalizia
, and
Laura Donnini
Sensationalism Doesn’t Serve Society
WOTR Staff
Could Russia Follow the “Hormuz Playbook” in the Baltic and Black Seas?
Miro Sedlák
The Pentagon Needs a Playbook for Munitions Surge Production
Bryce Loidolt
The Army Needs to Build Better Command Posts
Justin Lynch
Cheap Missiles, Not Drones, Will Win the Next Air War
Vitaliy Goncharuk
Why Kim Jong Un Won’t Pick Up the Phone and What to Do About It
Jonathan Corrado
The Mountaintop Mirage: Why Xi’s Military Purges Cannot Produce the Force He Wants
Christopher Nye
Confronting the Past and Present, Lessons from Chornobyl
WOTR Staff
From Slogan to Standard: How the Pentagon Should Define Affordable Mass
Mike Benitez
Airwaves of Power: Why the Pentagon Should Shift to a Commercial-First Spectrum Model
Roslyn Layton
Seeing the Cyber in Economic Statecraft
Jason Blessing
Resilience Without Capacity: The Fatal Flaw in America’s New Cyber Strategy
Jesse Humpal
,
Alexander Noyes
, and
Emily Valentine
The United States Is Repeating Its Silicon Mistake with Gallium Nitride
Pradyot Yadav
What the War Against Iran Means for the U.S.-South Korean Alliance
Jihoon Yu
The F-35 Is a Masterpiece Built for the Wrong War
John G. Ferrari
and
Dillon Prochnicki
Winning in the Donbas: What Russia’s 2014–2015 Campaign Reveals About Modern War
Amos Fox
The End of Managed Escalation in the Gulf
Robert Mason
and
Rikard Jalkebro
Operationalizing Economic Statecraft: A New Imperative for the Pentagon
Anita Kellogg
The Bromine Chokepoint: How Strife in the Middle East Could Halt Production of the World’s Memory Chips
Alvin Camba
Bankova, Budapest, and Bunnies
WOTR Staff
The Hidden System Turning Chinese Tech Companies into Military Suppliers
Charles Sun
Are Perceptions the Reality?
WOTR Staff
The Age of Unlearning: How Democracies Lost Their Grip on Strategic Time
Beniamino Irdi
The Iran War and the Energy Lesson We Failed to Learn
Emily Holland
Punish Russia for Helping Iran Target the U.S. Military
Ryan Evans
Follow the Money: Finance and the Future of Allied Economic Statecraft
Georgie Skipper
Bailing Out Russia for “Peace” Is a Losing Proposition
Emma Isabella Sage
and
Savannah Taylor
The Navy’s Latest Is Not a Plan, Not a Strategy, and Not Fighting Instructions
Bruce Stubbs
Testing Denial: The Philippine Alliance in America’s First Island Chain Strategy
Patrick Cronin
and
Nathaniel Uy
Lessons from Ukraine for Defending Gulf Airspace from Shaheds
Dimko Zhluktenko
AI-Ready Biodata Is America’s Next Strategic Infrastructure
Michelle Holko
,
John Wilbanks
, and
Sam Howell
Quenching the Nuclear Stockpile’s Thirst for Tritium
Audrey Beldio
The Bay of Bengal Flank: India’s Three-Front Dilemma and Its Implications for Taiwan
Wolfgang Petermann
Fighting an Economic War Without Fused Intelligence
Karyn Eliot
and
Jennifer Buss
Why Satellites Fail — and How to Protect Them
Jean-François Morizur
Foundry, Fleet, and Fight: Hedging the U.S. Navy
Emma Salisbury
The Deluge, the Paper Cup, and Washington’s Lack of Urgency on Guam
Michael W. Cruz
The U.S. Military Must Save Itself Before Saving Others
Jennifer Kavanagh
Breaking Europe’s Trans-Atlantic Habit: The End of the Senior Partner Myth
Moritz S. Graefrath
and
Gesine Weber
BONUS In Brief: Vibes Out of Munich
Gesine Weber
,
Ulrike Franke
,
Matthew Savill
, and
Monika Sus
A Worrying Military Build-up in the Western Balkans?
Blerim Vela
China Now Finds Itself in al-Qaeda’s Crosshairs
Colin Clarke
and
Lucas Webber
The Greatest Threat to Acquisition Transformation Is Fear
Bonnie Evangelista
Recalibrating U.S. Intelligence Strategy for an Uncertain Global Order
Alexander Bick
and
Philip Potter
The Full Spectrum of Victory
WOTR Staff
The Sound of Munich: Autonomy, Anxiety, and the Twilight of Transatlantic Order
Richard Fontaine
Running to Stand Still: Russian Nuclear Modernization after New START
Michael Kofman
Gilded Capability: Overinvestment and the Survivability Paradox
Trevor Phillips-Levine
,
Andrew Tenbusch
, and
Walker D. Mills
Sun Tzu in the Supply Chain: The New Face of Economic War With China
Tim Welter
and
Margaret McWeeney
The Chinese Yoke: Russia’s Return to Vassalship
Matthew Zalewski
Turkey’s Drone Industry at a Strategic Crossroads
Doga Eralp
Defending Against the Next Bioweapon: the mRNA Imperative
Jeff Coller
Is it Time for a Nordic Nuke?
Johannes Kibsgaard
Alliances Under Pressure
WOTR Staff
Deep Learning From Operation Sindoor: Five Takeaways From a Four-Day War
Sameer Lalwani
,
Shailender Arya
, and
David Brostoff
The Front Door Problem in National Security Space
Isobel Porteous
Latest Pentagon Report: China’s Military Advancing Amid Churn
Andrew Erickson
The Burn and the Choke: Why Semiconductor Controls Will Outlast China’s Rare Earth Weapon
Alvin Camba
From Restraint to Readiness? Germany Considers Conscription
Michael F. Harsch
The Indispensable Adversary: India’s Approach to China
Shantanu Roy-Chaudhury
The Genesis Mission and Quantum Technologies
Prineha Narang
and
Joshua Levine
Hybrid Manufacturing: The Case for Agile Factories
John Borrego
Chasing True AI Autonomy: From Legacy Mindsets to Battlefield Dominance
Vitaliy Goncharuk
Safeguarding American Transportation and Infrastructure Networks
Andrew Grotto
After the Constellation-Class: Lessons of the Navy’s Latest Shipbuilding Debacle
Austin Gray
Ten Jolting Takeaways from Trump’s New National Security Strategy
Rick Landgraf
The U.S.-Saudi Reconfiguration Is Real and It No Longer Depends on Israel
H. A. Hellyer
Thinking the Thinkable on an AI Market Correction
Joseph Webster
The Case for An Allied Competitive Strategy
Arjun Akwei
and
Jinwan Park
A 15-Point Plan to Get to a Ukrainian-Russian Settlement
Ryan Evans
Replicator 3 Should Be the Sustainment Revolution
Nick Johnson
How South Korea Can Help the U.S. Navy Stay Afloat in the Pacific
Jeff Kucik
Acquisition Transformation: How to Make it Last
Elaine McCusker
and
John G. Ferrari
A Bletchley Park for the Quantum Age
Mauritz Kop
America Should Build Its Own Warships While Buying Tankers
Sam Slocum
and
Peter Devine
The American Military Officer After Liberalism
Peter Mitchell
Could Beijing’s Security Strategy in Africa Backfire?
Jonathan Ping
and
Joel Odota
Igniting the American Quantum Economy
Prineha Narang
and
Joshua Levine
The Supply Chain Chokepoints in Quantum
Prineha Narang
and
Joshua Levine
Realignments, Restrictions, and Risks
WOTR Staff
America’s Quantum Manufacturing Moment
Prineha Narang
and
Joshua Levine
Supply Chains Are Critical Infrastructure. It’s Time U.S. Policy Caught Up.
Jesse Humpal
Four AI Policy Choices Policymakers Can’t Afford to Get Wrong
Morgan Plummer
Can Lutnick’s Chip-for-Chip Idea Work?
Matt Brazil
Resilience in American Strategy Is More Important Than Ever
Erica Lonergan
When Biology Meets the Battlefield: An Interview with Diane DiEuliis
Diane DiEuliis
Flood the Zone: III Marine Expeditionary Force’s Mobility Mandate
Brandan R. Schofield
and
Andrew C. Edwards
Can More British and French Nuclear Cooperation Help Deter Russia?
Zsofia Wolford
,
James Black
, and
Paul van Hooft
South Korea Should Build Out a Reconnaissance Satellite Ecosystem
Chang-young Lee
Washington’s Ironclad Commitments Are Rusting in the Indo-Pacific
Gregory H. Winger
,
Miguel Alberto Gomez
, and
Lauren Sukin
Ghost Fleet, Ten Years Later: An Interview with P.W. Singer and August Cole
Peter W. Singer
and
August Cole
Think Medium: The Case for “Minilateralism” to Boost Naval Shipbuilding
Nicolas Jouan
Spectacular Drone Strikes and the Future Sanctuary of the U.S. Homeland
Michael Poznansky
and
Erik Sand
How Reservists Can Jumpstart Military Software Development
Will McGee
,
Collin Chew
, and
Drew Hutcheon
Why Russian-Indian Relations Have Been Steady in the Storm
Dmitry Gorenburg
,
Julian G. Waller
,
Jeffrey Edmonds
, and
Jeff Kucik
Golden Dome’s Gamble: Can Industry Move Fast Enough to Matter?
John Borrego
Emerging Terrorist Threats and Trends
Tricia Bacon
,
Nathaniel Powell
,
Aaron Y. Zelin
,
Amira Jadoon
, and
Bruce Hoffman
Ukraine Isn’t the Model for Winning the Innovation War
Vitaliy Goncharuk
High-Risk AI Models Need Military-Grade Security
Jason Ross Arnold
Sprinters, Marathoners & Skeptics on the Future of AI & Power
Joseph Webster
The Indo-Pacific Chooses Options, Not Sides
Vu Lam
Time to Supercharge Europe’s Innovation Ecosystem
Klaus Hommels
and
Fiona Murray
Allied Arsenal: Building Strength Through Shared Production
Trevor Phillips-Levine
and
Andrew Tenbusch
North Korea’s Deadly Drone Bonanza Is Coming to a Peninsula Near You
Jonathan Corrado
,
Chelsie Alexandre
, and
Anton Ponomarenko
Steel in the Storm: Recent Wars as Guides for Armor Transformation
Lt. Gen. Kevin D. Admiral
and
Nicholas Drake
Factories First: Winning the Drone War Before It Starts
Martin C. Feldmann
and
Gene Keselman
Unmanned & Unfinanceable? The Problems with Scaling America’s Autonomous Fleet
Mark L. Wooters
The Fragility of U.S. Spacepower in a Multipolar World
Nazmelis Zengin
Lessons Learned and a Big Play on Drones from Latvia
Ryan Evans
and
Uģis Norītis
Small State, Big Stakes: The Maldives and Strategic Competition in the Indian Ocean
Andrea Malji
A Workforce Strategy for America’s Shipbuilding Future
Katherine Kuzminski
and
Laura Schmiegel
The Case for an Economic Fusion Center to Prevent Strategic Surprise
James Tingle
The Double Power Law: How American Innovation Really Works
Jon Metzler
and
Andrew W. Reddie
Marching to Different Drums: The Army’s Birthday Parade as Seen from China
J. William DeMarco
Steps Toward Golden Dome
Kari A. Bingen
,
Stephanie Stapleton
,
Michael O’Hanlon
, and
Shaan Shaikh
Does America’s Indo-Pacific Strategy Still Run Through Ukraine?
Luis Simón
AUKUS Pillar II Is Failing in Its Mission
Peter Dean
and
Alice Nason
A Signal Point of Failure: Integrating BeiDou into U.S. Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Systems
Jesse Humpal
Military Revolutions from the Spanish Tercio to First-Person View Drones
Antonio Salinas
and
Jason P. LeVay
A Taipei Airlift: Lessons from Berlin
Reid Yankowski
and
Robert Wes
For Saudi Arabia, Normalization with Israel Doesn’t Make Sense Now
H. A. Hellyer
Agentic Warfare Is Here. Will America Be the First Mover?
Benjamin Jensen
,
Dan Tadross
, and
Matthew Strohmeyer
Spectrum Supremacy: Reclaiming America’s Edge in a Contested Domain
Roslyn Layton
Rearming Europe: Challenges and Constraints
Andrea Gilli
,
Mauro Gilli
, and
Niccolò Petrelli
A Federal Critical Mineral Processing Initiative: Securing U.S. Mineral Independence from China
Alvin Camba
Beyond Strategy: Executing Economic Security Policy
Chris Díaz
and
Aroop Mukharji
Trouble in the Technate
Nick Danforth
Beyond Comparisons: India’s Strategic Reckoning amid China’s Military Modernization
Hely Desai
U.S. Allies and Adversaries Are Attempting Nuclear Deterrence without Weapons — Will It Work?
Matthew Fuhrmann
Greenland’s Military Possibilities for the United States
Aaron Brady
How the Biden Administration Won Tactically but Failed Strategically in the Red Sea
Joshua Tallis
Eurodeterrent: A Vision for an Anglo-French Nuclear Force
James Cameron
Rewind and Reconnoiter: A Continent-Wide Blind Spot Revisited
Joe Bruhl
How the Trump Administration Can Limit China’s Arms Exports
Grant Rumley
Europe, Deterrence, and Long-Range Strike
Lotje Boswinkel
Deciphering French Strategy in the Indo-Pacific
Léonie Allard
When It Comes to Submarines, Australia Is Going to Be Left High and Dry
Peter Briggs
Is Cyber Revolutionary or Barely Relevant in Modern Warfare?
Jason Healey
Armed Neutrality for Ukraine Is NATO’s Least Poor Option
Jennifer Kavanagh
and
Christopher McCallion
Russia’s War in Ukraine Has Brought Iran and Belarus Closer Together
Jack Roush
Software-Defined Warships: The Navy’s Digital Future of Necessity
Artem Sherbinin
and
Austin Gray
Rolling Back Naval Forward Presence Will Strengthen American Deterrence
Jonathan Panter
It’s Time to Overhaul Information Transfer in Army Training
Daniel Vazquez
Don’t Protect the U.S. Merchant Marine — Promote It
Emma Salisbury
U.S. Officials Need to Explain the Stakes in Taiwan
Jake Yeager
The Battle for Brilliant Minds: From the Nuclear Age to AI
Iskander Rehman
Can Europe Fight for Taiwan?
Luis Simón
and
Toshi Yoshihara
Dual-Use Is a Strategy, Not a Category (Nor a Trap)
Gene Keselman
and
Fiona Murray
What the Pentagon’s New Report on Chinese Military Power Reveals About Capabilities, Context, and Consequences
Andrew Erickson
Alliance Networking in Europe and the Indo-Pacific
Lotje Boswinkel
,
Luis Simón
,
Alexander Lanoszka
, and
Hugo Meijer
Merry Christmas from the Johnsons
Zachary Griffiths
Hardware and Hard Truths: Trump’s Tariffs Could Hurt American AI
Alex Li
The 2024 War on the Rocks Holiday Reading List
WOTR Staff
The Tech Investment Playbook for Victory
Brian MacCarthy
The Patient Efforts Behind Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s Success in Aleppo
Aaron Y. Zelin
Rewind and Reconnoiter: Does More Military Really Mean More Security?
Alexander Sorg
and
Julian Wucherpfennig
More NATO in the Arctic Could Free the United States Up to Focus on China
Ryan R. Duffy
,
Jahara Matisek
,
Jeremy M. McKenzie
, and
Chad Pillai
Behind Iran’s Surging Military Budget
Clément Therme
In Brief: North Korea’s Critical Allies
Jenny Town
,
Thomas Shugart
, and
Maria Snegovaya
Ukraine, Europe, and the Art of the Deal
Luis Simón
and
Lotje Boswinkel
Next-Generation Decoys for the Marine Corps
Jorge Rivero
Power Broker — How Erdoğan Balances Serbs and Albanians
Vuk Vuksanovic
Attrition’s Apostle? Reading Vegetius in an Age of Protracted Warfare
Iskander Rehman
Russian Roulette on the Red Sea
Ari Heistein
and
Daniel Rakov
How Australia and South Korea Are Recrafting Their Relationship and Fortifying the Indo-Pacific
Arius M. Derr
and
Hannah Cho
Harnessing the Power of the E.U.-NATO Partnership
Monika Sus
and
Dominik Jankowski
Cyber Transparency and the Restoration of U.S.-Russian Strategic Stability
Hunter Behrens
Rewind and Reconnoiter: Will Finland and Sweden Joining NATO Deepen the Alliance’s Problems?
Zachary Selden
What Would Be Japan’s Role in a New Korean War?
Ju Hyung Kim
China, Clean Technologies, and National Security
Joshua Busby
,
Morgan Bazilian
, and
Emily Holland
The Adversarial
WOTR Staff
Is Germany Ready to Take Space Seriously? Requirements for Germany’s First Space Security Strategy
Andrea Rotter
Russia Is on a Slow Path to Bankruptcy, But How Slow?
Pierre-Marie Meunier
U.S. Maritime Policy Needs an Overhaul
Colin Grabow
Rewind and Reconnoiter: It Will Take More Than A Biden Victory to Solve NATO’s Strategic Malaise with Sara Moller
Sara Bjerg Moller
What is an Italian Carrier Strike Group Doing in the Indo-Pacific?
Alessio Patalano
Keeping Canada Relevant Through Specialization
Richard Shimooka
How to Boil a Frog: The Dangers of Downsizing in the U.S. Military
Ryan Pallas
The Long Shadow of Soviet Sabotage Doctrine?
Daniela Richterova
Beyond Fusion: Preparing for Systems Rivalry with China
Liza Tobin
,
Addis Goldman
, and
Katherine Kurata
Strategic Outpost’s 2024 Summer Vacation Reading List
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Integrating Maritime Statecraft and Strategy
BJ Armstrong
Sustainable Sustainment: Supplying War in the Age of Strategic Competition
Lt. Gen. Xavier Brunson
,
Christopher Boss
, and
Leo Blanken
Deep Strikes into Russia: A Partner’s Decision for Ukraine’s Strategic Success
Serhii Kuzan
NATO Should Think Big About the Indo-Pacific
Luis Simón
What France’s Surprise Elections Could Mean for Its Relations with the World
Ulrike Franke
The Adversarial
WOTR Staff
Rewind and Reconnoiter: A Case for French Leadership on Ukraine with Gesine Weber
Gesine Weber
Mare Nostrum Revisited: Maritime Competition in the Mediterranean
Jeremy Stöhs
and
Sebastian Bruns
Denial Is the Worst Except for All the Others: Getting the U.S. Theory of Victory Right for a War with China
Jacob Heim
,
Zachary Burdette
, and
Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga
Power and Tension: The Cyber Security Problems of Military Electrification
Kristen Csenkey
and
Alexis Rapin
Gulf of Guinea Maritime Security: Lessons, Latency, and Law Enforcement
Max Williams
A Plan to Revitalize the Arsenal of Democracy
Michael Brown
Rewind and Reconnoiter: Is America Still Born to Rule the Seas with Claude Berube
Claude Berube
The Adversarial
WOTR Staff
Bringing a Method to the Strategy Madness
Jeffrey Meiser
How Washington Can Save its Semiconductor Controls on China
Ben Noon
The Rising Ransomware Tide, Chinese Spy Cranes, and the Biden Executive Order on Maritime Cyber Security
Nina Kollars
,
Blake Benson
, and
Austin Reid
Operationalizing a Doctrine for U.S. Economic Statecraft
Alex Zerden
and
Leland Smith
Rewind and Reconnoiter: Policy Priorities for Sustaining U.S. Semiconductor Leadership with Jeffrey Bean and Stephen Ezell
Jeffrey D. Bean
and
Stephen Ezell
Two-Theater Tragedy: A Reluctant Europe Cannot Easily Escape a Sino-American War Over Taiwan
Tim Sweijs
and
Paul van Hooft
The Submarine Workforce Crisis: Admitting Realities and Restructuring Long-Term Strategy
Alexander Grey
Rewind and Reconnoiter: Niger and the Risk Versus Reward of Remote Operations with Brian Petit
Brian Petit
It’s Time for a Comprehensive National Maritime Strategy
Mark Kennedy
and
Jeff Kucik
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once? Cyberspace Operations and Chinese Strategy
Joshua Rovner
Send in the A-Team: A Graduated Response for Ukraine
Brian Petit
Drones are Transforming the Battlefield in Ukraine But in an Evolutionary Fashion
Stacie L. Pettyjohn
Africa’s Coup Calamity: What Happened to Deterrence?
Claude Lambert
Taiwan’s Theory of the Fight
Tommy Jamison
Beating the Ossification Trap: Why Reform, Not Spending, Will Salvage American Power
Michael J Mazarr
Bringing the Swarm to Life: Roles, Missions, and Campaigns for the Replicator Initiative
Benjamin Jensen
Setting the Record Straight on Attrition
Amos Fox
Rewind and Reconnoiter: The Chinese Threat to Taiwan with Timothy R. Heath
Timothy R. Heath
Military-technological cooperation across the Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific
Daniel Fiott
Getting “Left-of-Launch” in the Counter-Drone Fight
Paul Lushenko
and
Caitlin Lee
The Adversarial: December 21
WOTR Staff
After a Ceasefire, Would Russia Simply Fight Again?
Stephen Crowley
Resolute Dragon: Reassurance, Deterrence, and a Call for Coordination
Bill Matory
and
Benjamin Van Horrick
Israel’s Gaza Ground Invasion and the Return of “Strategic Depth”
Rob Geist Pinfold
The United Kingdom’s Indo-Pacific Engagement
Peter Chalk
A Misleading Metaphor: The Nuclear “Arms Race”
Matthew Costlow
,
Robert Peters
, and
Kyle Balzer
The Challenge of Tripolar Arms Competition: Lessons from the Washington Treaty
John D. Maurer
and
John H. Maurer
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Stay-Behind Force Decision-Making
Brian Petit
Two Myths about Counterforce
James Acton
Rebuilding Ukraine’s Economy Starts Now
Ralph Clem
,
Erik Herron
, and
Matthew Lantzy
Proliferate, Don’t Obliterate: How Responsive Launch Marginalizes Anti-Satellite Capabilities
Ritwik Gupta
and
Andrew W. Reddie
Iranian Drone Proliferation is Scaling Up and Turning More Lethal
Nakissa Jahanbani
,
Muhammad Najjar
,
Benjamin Johnson
,
Caleb Benjamin
, and
Muhammad al-Ubaydi
Revisiting the Hedge Strategy with Renewed Urgency
Michael Brown
and
Rear Adm. Lorin Selby
Perseverance and Adaptation: Ukraine’s Counteroffensive at Three Months
Michael Kofman
and
Rob Lee
The Future of Algorithmic Warfare Part III: Stagnation
Benjamin Jensen
,
Christopher Whyte
, and
Scott Cuomo
Italy’s New Look
Leonardo Palma
Space Mission Authorization: Enabling the Final Frontier
Zeke Clayson
,
Frank Spellman
,
Shiv Patel
, and
Dan Shen
Implications of China’s Nuclear Expansion for Strategic Stability
Aaron Miles
Europe’s Missile Conundrum
Fabian Hoffmann
A World of Blocs?
Aaron Friedberg
Anarchy Is a Bridge: Russia and China Are Pushing NATO and Japan Together
Matthew Brummer
and
Wrenn Yennie Lindgren
The Art of Vassalization: How Russia’s War on Ukraine Has Transformed Transatlantic Relations
Jeremy Shapiro
and
Jana Puglierin
How Advanced Is Russian-Chinese Military Cooperation?
Dmitry Gorenburg
,
Elizabeth Wishnick
,
Paul Schwartz
, and
Brian Waidelich
Tackling Maritime Security Requires A Revised Indo-Pacific Strategy
Brandon Prins
,
Anup Phayal
,
Aaron Gold
,
Curie Maharani
,
Deng Palomares
,
Daniel Pauly
, and
Sayed Fauzan Riyadi
Qualified to Compete: A New Approach to Credentials
Alexandra Seymour
Flying Desks, Not Planes: The Backlog in British Fast Jet Pilot Training
Emma Salisbury
China and the Alliance Allergy of Rising Powers
Evan N. Resnick
and
Hannah Elyse Sworn
The Art of Supply Chain Interdiction: To Win Without Fighting
Trevor Phillips-Levine
Ending Germany’s Indecision-Making
Roderick Parkes
Rethinking Tradeoffs Between Europe and the Indo-Pacific
Zack Cooper
and
Luis Simón
The Need to Invest in Long-Range Fires
Josh Portzer
and
Jonathan Gosselin
AI At War
Anthony King
Incentivizing Whistleblowers to Combat Sanctions Evasion
Alex Zerden
and
Arshan Barzani
Germany’s Reluctant Approach to Space Security Policy
Carolin Busch
and
Lorène Slous
Competition is Inevitable, War is Not: Using Games to Rethink the U.S.-Chinese Relationship
Benjamin Jensen
and
Mark Montgomery
It’s Time to Re-Evaluate the Officer Evaluation System
Brennan Randel
How Large-Language Models Can Revolutionize Military Planning
Benjamin Jensen
and
Dan Tadross
Russia Won’t Sit Idly by after Finland and Sweden Join NATO
Nicholas Lokker
and
Heli Hautala
What Frederick the Great’s Army Can Tell Us About Russia’s Private Military Company
Alexander S. Burns
Breaking the Cycle of Incremental Acquisition Reform
Eric Chase
Mercenary Shocks: What the War in Ukraine Will Eventually Mean for Africa
Raphael Parens
Into the Pickle Barrel: How Thinking About Precision as a System Can Expand the Munition Stockpile
Trevor Phillips-Levine
,
Andrew Tenbusch
,
Walker D. Mills
,
Dylan “Joose” Phillips-Levine
, and
Collin Fox
Software Defines Tactics
Jason Weiss
and
Dan Patt
Japan’s Shift to War Footing
Zack Cooper
and
Eric Sayers
Toward a More Dynamic Italian Military
Federico Borsari
The Case for Getting Rid of the National Security Strategy
Justin Logan
and
Benjamin H. Friedman
Permanent Rupture: The European-Russian Energy Relationship Has Ended with Nord Stream
Emily Holland
Escalation Management and Nuclear Employment in Russian Military Strategy
Michael Kofman
and
Anya Loukianova Fink
Walking the Talk in International Engagement and Security Cooperation
E. John Teichert
Hedging with Humility: Reassessing China’s Power Projection Capabilities Against Taiwan
Trevor Phillips-Levine
,
Kyle Cregge
, and
Collin Fox
The Grand Race for Techno-Security Leadership
Tai Ming Cheung
and
Thomas G. Mahnken
The United States Is Behind the Curve on Blockchain
Mike Knapp
Ending the Ideology of the Offense, Part II
David Johnson
New Winners, New Losers: Toward a New Energy Security
Morgan Bazilian
and
Cullen Hendrix
Reviving the Petroleum Administration for War: A Case for Government-Industry Partnership
Ryan P. Kellogg
and
David Brunnert
Kessel Run Shows How to Bridge the Gap Between Development and Operations
Brian Beachkofski
and
Dan Patt
South Korea Needs a Wake-Up Call On Its Reservist Crisis
Brendan Balestrieri
and
Won-geun Koo
Sabotage and War in Cyberspace
Joshua Rovner
How Sweden and Finland Can Bolster NATO
Gen. Michael Claesson
and
Zebulon Carlander
Don’t Delay Getting Serious About Cislunar Security
Jessy Kate Schingler
,
Victoria Samson
, and
Nivedita Raju
A Modern-Day Frederick the Great? The End of Short, Sharp Wars
David Johnson
Feedback Loops and Fundamental Flaws in Autonomous Warships
Jonathan Panter
and
Johnathan Falcone
A More United, Better-Armed Opposition Can Bring Democracy to Myanmar
Ye Myo Hein
and
Lucas Myers
What the Indian Military Won’t Learn from the War in Ukraine
Anit Mukherjee
The Bay of Bengal Could Be the Key to a Free and Open Indo-Pacific
Anu Anwar
Strange Debacle: Misadventures in Assessing Russian Military Power
Christopher Dougherty
The Army Risks Reasoning Backwards in Analyzing Ukraine
David Johnson
Can Russia Rebuild Its Tech Sector with China’s Help?
Maria Shagina
and
Emily Kilcrease
Protecting American Investments in AI
Brian Drake
How Strong Is al-Qaeda? A Debate
Daniel Byman
and
Asfandyar Mir
Helping India Replace Russia in the Value Arms Market
Vasabjit Banerjee
and
Benjamin Tkach
How to Get NATO Forces the Technology They Need
Cynthia R. Cook
and
Anna M. Dowd
Building a Cyber Force Is Even Harder Than You Thought
Max Smeets
What Would Finland Bring to the Table for NATO?
Heljä Ossa
and
Tommi Koivula
Too Fragile to Fight: Could the U.S. Military Withstand a War of Attrition?
Conrad Crane
Eight New Points on the Porcupine: More Ukrainian Lessons for Taiwan
Andrew Erickson
and
Gabriel Collins
After Ukraine, Where Will India Buy Its Weapons?
Vasabjit Banerjee
and
Benjamin Tkach
Project Sapphire: How to Keep 600 Kilograms of Kazakh Highly Enriched Uranium Safe
Togzhan Kassenova
Insights for Marine (and Beyond) Force Design from the Russo-Ukrainian War
Noel Williams
The Urgent Case for Energy Austerity
Emily Holland
and
Marco Giuli
In the Fourth Week, Is Russia Revising its War Aims Amidst Attrition?
Michael Kofman
and
Ryan Evans
How the Bundeswehr Should Spend Its Money
Michael Shurkin
The Power of Proper Security Cooperation
E. John Teichert
Are European Navies Ready for High-Intensity Warfare?
Pierre Morcos
and
Colin Wall
New Missiles, New Risks: The Escalatory Implications of Iran’s Precision-Strike Weapons
Jim Lamson
Winged Luddites: Aviators Are the Biggest Threat to Carrier Aviation
Noah Spataro
,
Trevor Phillips-Levine
, and
Andrew Tenbusch
Are New and Emerging Technologies Game-Changers for Smaller Powers?
Gen. Michael Claesson
and
Zebulon Carlander
The U.S. Navy’s Plans for Unmanned and Autonomous Systems Leave Too Much Unexplained
Gregory V. Cox
Is America Still Born to Rule the Seas?
Claude Berube
Unleashing the U.S. Military’s Thinking about Cyber Power
M.A. Thomas
Extending that ‘Loving Feeling’ to Undersea Warfare
Frank Hoffman
‘Lightning Carriers’ Could Be Lightweights in an Asian War
Olli Pekka Suorsa
and
John F. Bradford
Heritage, Not Hate? Decoding Confederate Nostalgia
Dewaine Farria
Reflections on 9/11 Twenty Years After
Philip Zelikow
A Weapons of Mass Destruction Strategy for the 21st Century
Al Mauroni
,
Zachary Kallenborn
,
Seth Carus
, and
Ron Fizer
Iran’s Bet on Autonomous Weapons
Evan Omeed Lisman
How an International Order Died: Lessons from the Interwar Era
Ian Johnson
A New Paradigm: Mutually Assured Security
Raymond Smith
To Build Joint Command and Control, First Break Joint Command and Control
Leland Cowie
,
Todd Graff
,
Craig Cude
, and
Brad DeWees
As Allies Design Fighter Aircraft, the United States Faces a Decision
Brian Burton
A State Department for the Digital Age
Ferial Ara Saeed
Remembering What I’ve Never Known
Doyle Hodges
Net Assessing American and Chinese Innovation
Walter M. Hudson
A Starcruiser for Space Force: Thinking Through the Imminent Transformation of Spacepower
Jeff Becker
Ending the Endless Wars: A Strategy for Selective Disengagement
Monica Duffy Toft
Trading One Dependency for Another
Nadia Schadlow
Metus Hostilis: Sallust, American Grand Strategy, and the Disciplining Effects of Peer Competition with China
Iskander Rehman
The Sino-American Race for Technology Leadership
Ferial Ara Saeed
China Does Not Have to Be America’s Enemy in the Middle East
Ashley Rhoades
and
Dalia Dassa Kaye
When It Comes to Strategy, People Are Everything
Morgan Plummer
Warfighting in Cyberspace
Joshua Rovner
Humility in American Grand Strategy
Mathew Burrows
and
Robert Manning
Economics, National Security, and the Competition with China
George Magnus
How to Asymmetrically Out-Compete Xi Jinping’s One Belt One Road Initiative
Patrick Cronin
Navigating the Shoals of Renewed American Naval Power: Imperatives for the Next Secretary of the Navy
Bryan Durkee
and
Chris Bassler
Kill the Drug War: Death, Decisions, and the Limits of Military Power
Collin Fox
Don’t Knock Yourself Out: How America Can Turn the Tables on China by Giving Up the Fight for Command of the Seas
Paul van Hooft
The Cyber Maritime Environment: A Shared Critical Infrastructure and Trump’s Maritime Cyber Security Plan
Nina Kollars
,
Sam J. Tangredi
, and
Chris C. Demchak
After Cienfuegos, Criminal Cross-Border Collaboration Continues; Governmental Collaboration Suffers
Cecilia Farfán-Méndez
A World Divided: The Conflict with Chinese Techno-Nationalism Isn’t Coming – It’s Already Here
James Mulvenon
It’s Time to Move the Army Ladder
Eric Wesley
and
Robert Simpson
The Faultline Between Futurists and Traditionalists in National Security
John Speed Meyers
and
David Jackson
Thinking in (Napoleonic) Times: Historical Warnings for an Era of Great-Power Competition
Alexandra Evans
Biden and Europe’s Dilemmas
Luis Simón
2020 War on the Rocks Holiday Reading List
WOTR Staff
Musing on Gender Integration in the Military with Simone de Beauvoir
Bill Bray
Winning the AI Revolution for American Diplomacy
Ryan Dukeman
History Shows U.S. Nuclear Restraint Is a One-Way Street
Michaela Dodge
What the Abraham Accords Reveal About the United Arab Emirates
Elham Fakhro
‘Maximum Pressure Brought Down the Soviet Union’ and Other Lies We Tell Ourselves
Philip H. Gordon
China’s Economic Statecraft in Europe During the Pandemic
John R. Deni
and
Jake Shatzer
Let the Generals Speak? Retired Officer Dissent and the June 2020 George Floyd Protests
Risa Brooks
and
Michael A. Robinson
The United States Can Only Achieve AI Dominance with Its Allies
James Ryseff
It’s Time for the Pentagon to Take Data Principles More Seriously
Robert Work
and
Tara Murphy Dougherty
Al-Shabaab’s Improvised Explosive Device Supply Chain Gambit in Somalia
Peter Kirechu
The Dangerous Myths About China’s Nuclear Weapons
David Logan
Offensive Strike in Asia: A New Era?
David Santoro
and
Brad Glosserman
Bending the Principle of Mass: Why That Approach No Longer Works for Airpower
David Alman
and
Heather Venable
Many Black World War II Veterans Were Denied Their GI Bill Benefits. Time to Fix That.
Robert Levinson
Yet Another Article about Information Technology and the Character of War
Justin Lynch
There’s No Containment Strategy for Climate Change
Sharon E. Burke
COVID-19 and Economic Competition with China and Russia
Howard J. Shatz
Spying on the Nazi and Soviet Bombs
Timothy McDonnell
Don’t Just Copy and Paste: A Better Model For Managing Military Technologists
Richard Kuzma
,
James Long
, and
Jim Perkins
The Measure of a Country: America’s Wonkiest Competition with China
William Morrissey
and
John Givens
The Great Fishing Competition
Lisa McKinnon Munde
A British Advanced Research Projects Agency?
Emma Salisbury
Ten Suggestions for a ‘Russia Strategy’ for the United Kingdom
Mark Galeotti
Strategic Outpost’s Fifth Annual Summer Vacation Reading List
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
“For Our Enemies, We Have Shotguns”: Explaining China’s New Assertiveness
Andrew Small
and
Dhruva Jaishankar
Read Before Pontificating on Quantum Technology
Michael J. Biercuk
What Should Come After Trump’s Failed China Policy?
Philip H. Gordon
The 100-Ship Navy
Jonathan Panter
,
Anand Jantzen
, and
Johnathan Falcone
Escalation Management and Nuclear Employment in Russian Military Strategy
Michael Kofman
and
Anya Loukianova Fink
Visions of War, West Point, and Waywardness
Luke J. Schumacher
The Chip Wars of the 21st Century
Steve Blank
Will More Syria Sanctions Hurt the Very Civilians They Aim to Protect?
Basma Alloush
and
Alex Simon
A Cautionary Tale on Ambitious Feats of AI: The Strategic Computing Program
Emma Salisbury
The Future of Warfare Will Continue to Be Human
Peter L. Hickman
The Pentagon Should Train for — and Not Just Talk About — Great-Power Competition
Tom Greenwood
and
Owen Daniels
Korean War Economic Mobilization Is More Relevant to the Current Pandemic than World War II
Douglas Bell
and
Conrad Crane
How is the Russian Military Responding to COVID-19?
Mathieu Boulegue
Preparing for War in the Fog of Peace: The Transatlantic Case
Jordan Becker
and
Robert Bell
This Franco-Italian Naval Deal is a Litmus Test for European Strategic Autonomy
Antonio Calcara
Affordable, Abundant, and Autonomous: The Future of Ground Warfare
Liam Collins
and
Harrison “Brandon” Morgan
Aftershocks: The Coronavirus Pandemic and the New World Disorder
Undersecretary Colin Kahl
and
Ariana Berengaut
When Systems Fail: What Pandemics and Cyberspace Tell Us About the Future of National Security
Benjamin Jensen
Technology-Enabled Mission Command
B. A. Friedman
and
Olivia Garard
Put Your Money Where Your Strategy Is: Using Machine Learning to Analyze the Pentagon Budget
Chad Peltier
Clearing the Air on 5G
Milo Medin
and
Gilman Louie
Public Opinion Is a Key to America’s Global AI Leadership
Merrill Wasser
Special Operations as an Innovation Laboratory
Leo Blanken
,
Philip Swintek
, and
Justin Davis
The Case for a Unified Future Warfare Command
Safi Bahcall
Washington’s F-35 Embargo Against Turkey — Success or Failure?
Ray Rounds
China Brought NATO Closer Together
Jens Ringsmose
and
Sten Rynning
Russian Demographics and Power: Does the Kremlin Have a Long Game?
Michael Kofman
The Three Elephants of European Security
Johanna Möhring
America Shouldn’t Abandon Its Allies in the Sahel
Olivier-Rémy Bel
Mosaic Warfare: Small and Scalable are Beautiful
Benjamin Jensen
and
John Paschkewitz
The Army’s New Approach to People
Maj. Gen. J.P. McGee
and
Ryan Evans
Why Russian Military Expenditure Is Much Higher Than Commonly Understood (As Is China’s)
Michael Kofman
and
Richard Connolly
AI for Peace
Patrick S. Roberts
Getting Out of the NATO Nuclear Task Would Not Increase Dutch Security
Michal Onderco
The Future of War Technology Whispers to Us From the Past, and We Must Listen Better
Alexander Kott
In Need of Direction: The Case for Moving Supply Chains Out of China
Derek Scissors
Afghanistan on the Edge? Elections, Elites, and Ethnic Tensions
Andrew Watkins
Are We Making Cyber Ransoms Worse?
William G. Rich
Make China Great Again: Xi’s Truly Grand Strategy
Andrew Erickson
Getting Back to Basics: How to Avoid a Naval Intelligence Jutland
Claude Berube
Can Macron’s European Intervention Initiative Make the Europeans Battle-Ready?
Olivier-Rémy Bel
Under the Radar, Iran’s Cruise Missile Capabilities Advance
Shahryar Pasandideh
Light Touch, Tight Grip: China’s Influence and the Corrosion of Serbian Democracy
Vuk Vuksanovic
A Speech for the Next SECAF to Launch a New Era of Spacepower
Peter Garretson
A Historic National Vision for Spacepower
Peter Garretson
Doors of Perception
Thomas Brady
and
Jim Perkins
Export Controls in the Age of AI
Jade Leung
,
Sophie-Charlotte Fischer
, and
Allan Dafoe
The Real Stakes in the New Space Race
Lt. Gen. Steve Kwast
A Guide to Not Killing or Mutilating Artificial Intelligence Research
Eric Lofgren
The Myth of American Military Dominance
Justin Lynch
Shapes, Part II: The Shape of Strategy
Mike Pietrucha
East Asia First, Europe Second: Picking Regions in U.S. Grand Strategy
Linde Desmaele
and
Luis Simón
Beyond Grunts and Pilots: Senior Leader Talent Management in the Marine Corps
Leo Spaeder
Don’t Call It a Comeback: Foreign Interference in U.S. Elections Has Been Here for Years
Evan Wilson
No, President George W. Bush Did Not Undermine American Power and International Order
Peter Feaver
and
William Inboden
America Can’t Beat Beijing’s Tech Theft with Racial Profiling
Peter Mattis
and
Matt Schrader
The Tale of Turkey and the Patriots
Jim Townsend
and
Rachel Ellehuus
Space Force’s Jupiter-Sized Culture Problem
Peter Garretson
Assessing the Risks of a Nuclear ‘No First Use’ Policy
John R. Harvey
Shapes, Part I: The Shape of Airpower
Mike Pietrucha
Is the Air Force Serious about Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance?
Robert Stiegel
Blessed Be Thy Nuclear Weapons: The Rise of Russian Nuclear Orthodoxy
Michael Kofman
Explaining the Poverty of Germany’s Strategic Debate
Walter Haynes
Jaw-Jaw: A Look at the PLA’s History of Planning for War with Taylor Fravel
M. Taylor Fravel
and
Brad Carson
Finding the Way (Again): Building the Air Force’s New Century Series
Mike Pietrucha
Have Strategists Drunk the “AI Race” Kool-Aid?
Zac Rogers
China’s Multifaceted Arctic Strategy
David Auerswald
The Day After S-400: The Turkish-American Relationship Will Get Worse
Aaron Stein
Hope as a Method: Maxwell Taylor and America’s Cold War
Gregory Daddis
and
Jesse A. Faugstad
Oil and the Future of U.S. Strategy in the Persian Gulf
Anand Toprani
Countering WMD in the Digital Age: Breaking Down Bureaucratic Silos in a Brave New World
Natasha E. Bajema
The Case for Arms Embargoes Against Uncooperative Partners
Andrew Miller
and
Seth Binder
Charting a New Course for the Navy-Marine Corps-Coast Guard Team
Jeff Cummings
,
Scott Cuomo
,
Kathleen R. Dagher
,
Austin Duncan
,
Gordon Emmanuel
,
James George
,
Benjamin Jensen
,
Shawn Lansing
,
Torey McMurdo
,
Ryan Pallas
, and
Noah Spataro
The Role of the Personnel System in the Air Force Leadership and Retention Crisis
Adam Chitwood
A Close Look at France’s New Military Cyber Strategy
François Delerue
,
Alix Desforges
, and
Aude Géry
From Belarus with Love: The Limits of Lukashenko’s Dalliance with the West
Benno Zogg
Jaw-Jaw: Aaron Friedberg on Asking the Right Questions About Chinese Ambitions
Aaron Friedberg
and
Brad Carson
Future War: Not Back to the Future
Mike Dana
Jaw-Jaw: The Geo-Economic Challenge of China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Nadège Rolland
and
Brad Carson
Why Did It All Go So Wrong? An Arab Veteran of the Anti-Soviet Jihad Speaks
Myra MacDonald
Jaw-Jaw: China’s Great Power Disease
Edward Luttwak
and
Brad Carson
How the Deep State Came to America: A History
Ryan Gingeras
A Silver Lining in Abe’s Unrequited Bromance with Putin
Hidetoshi Azuma
and
Joshua Walker
Welcome to Fight Club: Wargaming the Future
Benjamin Jensen
For Landpower, Picking the Right Battles is More and More Essential
Conrad Crane
Garrison vs. Wilson: The Cabinet Resignation that Shook a Nation on the Brink of Crisis
Michael Neiberg
An Army Caught in the Middle Between Luddites, Luminaries, and the Occasional Looney
David Johnson
The New U.S. Strategy to Tackle WMD Terrorism is New Wine in Old Wineskins
Al Mauroni
The U.S. Navy’s Amphibious Assault Renaissance: It’s More Than Ships and Aircraft
George Galdorisi
and
Scott C. Truver
What Would You Say You Do Here? Redefining the Role of Intelligence in the Information Age
Zachery Tyson Brown
Securing America’s Connected Infrastructure Can’t Wait
Justin Sherman
and
Deb Crawford
Jaw-Jaw: Will Xi’s Third Revolution Last?
Liz Economy
and
Brad Carson
Jaw-Jaw: China is a Funny Sort of Revisionist Power — A Conversation with Dean Cheng
Dean Cheng
and
Brad Carson
Imagining War With Musang: What a Wargame Explains About Indonesia’s Foreign Policy
Caleb Slayton
At the Latest Inter-Korean Summit, Kim Jong-un Created a Diplomatic Minefield for the United States
David Maxwell
and
Mathew Ha
The Ripple Effects of the China Chip Hacking Story
Samm Sacks
Permanently Stationing U.S. Forces in Poland is a Bad Idea, But One Worth Debating
Michael Kofman
Return to Gettysburg: The Fifth Epochal Shift in the Course of War
Robert H. Scales
Trump’s Arms Exports Policy: Debunking Key Assumptions
Shimon Arad
Applying America’s Superpowers: How the U.S. Should Respond to China’s Informatization Strategy
Charles Rybeck
,
Lanny Cornwell
, and
Philip Sagan
Who is the Admiral Rickover of Naval Artificial Intelligence?
Connor S. McLemore
and
Eric Jimenez
The Coming Swarm Might Be Dead on Arrival
Shmuel Shmuel
Synthetic Biology: The Promise and Peril of a New Dual-Use Technology
Al Mauroni
Crisis and Conviction: U.S. Grand Strategy in Trump’s Second Term
Patrick Porter
To Engage China, or Balance It? Lessons From a Failed Grand Strategic Exercise
Peter Layton
The Puzzle of Russian Behavior in Deir al-Zour
Kimberly Marten
Intellectual Preparation for Future War: How Artificial Intelligence Will Change Professional Military Education
Mick Ryan
It is America’s Move in its Competition with China
Aaron Friedberg
Raiding and International Brigandry: Russia’s Strategy for Great Power Competition
Michael Kofman
The Dangerous Rise of Kinetic Diplomacy
Monica Duffy Toft
A Solution to the U.S. Military’s Scalability Problem: Software Flexibility
Sean Lavelle
Washington Should Help Europe Achieve ‘Strategic Autonomy,’ Not Fight It
Ronja Kempin
and
Barbara Kunz
Forecasting the Future of Warfare
Robert H. Scales
With Its New ‘White Book,’ France Looks to Become a World-Class Player in Cyber Space
Boris Toucas
The Navy and Marine Corps Need to Prepare for the Swarm of the Future
David Pinion
Notes of Caution on the Navy’s Forthcoming Force Structure Assessment
Bryan McGrath
Russia’s Chemical Romance: Don’t Call It a WMD Attack
Al Mauroni
Why America Must Modernize Its Nuclear Forces
Peter Huessy
America is Well Within Range of a Big Surprise, So Why Can’t It See?
T.X. Hammes
Air Force in Crisis, Part II: How Did We Get Here?
Mike Benitez
How Australia Can Foster a ‘Free and Open Indo-Pacific’
David Brewster
Beyond the ‘Broken Veteran’: A History of America’s Relationship With Its Ex-Soldiers
Rebecca Burgess
The Military Needs Reform, Not a Raise
Jim Perkins
#NoImpunity: Will the Newest International Effort to Stop Chemical Attacks in Syria Succeed?
Gregory D. Koblentz
Xi Looks to China’s Private Sector as He Pursues a Slimmer, Smarter PLA
Meia Nouwens
and
Lucie Béraud-Sudreau
Lessons Learned from the Air War Against the Islamic State
Ryan Fishel
and
Aaron Stein
America Has High Expectations for India. Can New Delhi Deliver?
Paul Staniland
Less Whole, Less Free, Less at Peace: Whither America’s Strategy for a Post-Cold War Europe?
James Goldgeier
Scraping Rust From the Iron Triangle: Why the Pentagon Should Invest in Capability
Frank Hoffman
Geostrategic Nuclear Exports: The Competition for Influence in Saudi Arabia
Nicholas L. Miller
and
Tristan A. Volpe
An Army Trying to Shake Itself from Intellectual Slumber, Part II: From 9/11 to Great Power Competition
David Johnson
The 2018 State of the Digital Union: The Seven Deadly Sins of Cyber Security We Must Face
Peter W. Singer
When Dauntless Isn’t Enough: The Moral and Strategic Imperative to Fix America’s Close Combat Units
Robert H. Scales
,
Scott Cuomo
, and
Jeff Cummings
The Next New Military Specialty Should Be Software Developers
Jim Perkins
From the Battle of Britain to Waze: Envisioning an Advanced Battle Management System
Nicholas Sigler
Why Americans Aren’t Really Worried About War With North Korea
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
India and the United States Should Revisit Their Opposition to China-Led Connectivity
Arif Rafiq
A Tale of Two Hegemons: The Anglo-American Roots of the Postwar International System
Kori Schake
Quad 2.0’s Challenges for India: A Delicate Balancing Act
Prateek Joshi
Bridge to Fiasco: How Language Imprisons American Strategy
Tim Feist
The 2017 War on the Rocks Holiday Reading List
WOTR Staff
The Futures Problem: Why Big Organizations Have Problems Making Long-Term Forecasts and What to Do About It
Benjamin Jensen
and
Neil Hollenbeck
America’s Vital Interests in Georgia: The Case for Engagement
Batu Kutelia
,
Shota Gvineria
, and
David H. Ucko
Hard Constraints on China’s Nuclear Forces
David Logan
Through a Periscope Darkly: The Nuclear Undersea Competition in Southern Asia Is Just Beginning
Diana Wueger
Open Your Eyes and See the 21st Century MAGTF
Scott Cuomo
,
Jeff Cummings
,
Olivia Garard
, and
Noah Spataro
The French Turn to Armed Drones
Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer
What a 1963 Novel Tells Us About the French Army, Mission Command, and the Romance of the Indochina War
Michael Shurkin
The 350-Ship Fantasy: It’s Time for the Navy to Think Radically About a Smaller Fleet
Steven Stashwick
A Fleet to Do What?
Phillip Pournelle
Until He Ran Out of Fight: How Gorbachev’s Convictions Shaped the End of the Cold War
James Graham Wilson
Cyber-Operations and the Misunderstood Doomsday Machine: A Rebuttal
Ben Buchanan
Long Ignored: The Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons Against Insurgents
Glenn Cross
How the Enemy Could Hit the U.S. Army at Home
Patrick Duggan
Strategic Outpost’s Second Annual Summer Vacation Reading List
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
The Best Thing America Built In Iraq: Iraq’s Counter-Terrorism Service and the Long War Against Militancy
Michael Knights
and
Alex Mello
The Path to Prototype Warfare
Robert Kozloski
Israel’s Forthcoming Security Dilemma
Nadav Pollak
The Cyber Workforce Gap: A National Security Liability?
Laura Bate
Is American Internationalism Dead? Reading the National Mood in the Age of Trump
Hal Brands
Repeating the Miracle of ’42: Fixing Army Mobilization
Ken S. Gilliam
Reclaiming the Air Attack Mission: A Radical Return to a Proven Success
Mike Pietrucha
Charting the Future of the Modern Caliphate
Colin Clarke
and
Craig Whiteside
How the IED Won: Dispelling the Myth of Tactical Success and Innovation
Jason Shell
Playing Moneyball: The Scouting Report on Light Attack Aircraft
Joel Bier
Maritime Power and U.S. Strategic Influence in Asia
Patrick Cronin
Maladjusted, Part II: How the U.S. Air Force Went from Eagle to Chicken
Mike Pietrucha
Maladjusted, Part I: 21st-Century Attack
Mike Pietrucha
A Guide to the Fleet the United States Needs
Bryan Clark
and
Bryan McGrath
Political Airpower, Part III: Boots Off the Ground
Mike Benitez
and
Mike Pietrucha
Hard Men in a Hard Environment: Indian Special Operators Along the Border with China
Iskander Rehman
Predicting Corporate Intelligence Agencies in the 1960s
Brian Nussbaum
We Need a Two-Ocean Secretary of the Navy
Paul Giarra
The Future of Air Superiority, Part IV: Autonomy, Survivability, and Getting to 2030
Brig. Gen. Alex Grynkewich
The Future of Air Superiority Part II: The 2030 Problem
Brig. Gen. Alex Grynkewich
The War on the Rocks 2016 Holiday Reading List
WOTR Staff
A Quick Review of the Navy’s New Force Structure Assessment
Bryan McGrath
Pacific Power: America’s Asian Alliances Beyond Burden-Sharing
Zack Cooper
Drone Proliferation Matters, But Not For the Reasons You Think
Michael Horowitz
,
Sarah E. Kreps
, and
Matthew Fuhrmann
This Isn’t About Me: A Personnel Story
Jim Perkins
The Perils of Conventional Deterrence by Punishment
Michael Petersen
The Best Strategy for Cyber-Conflict May Not Be a Cyber-Strategy
Benjamin Runkle
Offsetting Air Superiority with Air Force Special Operations
Mike Benitez
and
Peter Garretson
Elusive Victories: How Counterterrorism Campaigns Can Link Back Up with Strategy
Walter Haynes
This is How Turkey’s Incursion into Syria Could Get Bogged Down
Aaron Stein
Six Ways to Fix the Army’s Culture
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Capturing Flying Insects: A Machine Learning Approach to Targeting
Charlie Lewis
Happy Anniversary, Kazakhstan: 25 Years of Reducing WMD Threats
Andy Weber
and
Christine Parthemore
Bridging America’s Foreign Policy Elite-Main Street Divide
Sean Kay
and
Patrick Cronin
How Congress and the Pentagon Joined Forces to Worsen the Navy’s Carrier Gap
Mackenzie Eaglen
and
Rick Berger
The End of Globalization? The International Security Implications
T.X. Hammes
Dark Days: Trump, Christianity, and a Low Dishonest Decade
William Inboden
A Close Air Support Flyoff Is a Distraction
Robert Preston
and
Don Kang
A Trade Strategy for United Kingdom Inc: Foreign Policy Pragmatism and Post-Brexit Britain
David Martin Jones
and
M.L.R. Smith
If I Were President…
Tim Kane
Why Does the United States Oppose Brexit? I Can’t Say
David Betz
The Biggest Hurdles to the Future Army We Need
Conrad Crane
The Other Legacy of Robert McNamara
Abhijnan Rej
Sowing the Wind: The First Soviet-German Military Pact and the Origins of World War II
Ian Johnson
Militarizing Musk
Jeffrey Becker
A Netflix Assessment of China’s Rise and America’s Advantage
ML Cavanaugh
The End of the American Empire
Chas W. Freeman, Jr.
Turkish Foreign Policy is Waking Up from the Liberal Dream
Selim Koru
Soju Soldiers: KATUSAs, GIs, and the Search for the Bottom of the Bottle
ML Cavanaugh
Competitive Mobilization: How Would We Fare Against China?
Robert Haddick
The Rise of the Hybrid Warriors: From Ukraine to the Middle East
Douglas A. Ollivant
The Ghosts of Soviets Past: Two Army Intelligence Officers Explore an Abandoned Cold War Military City in Latvia
Adam Maisel
and
Will DuVal
7 Issues the Future of the Army Commission Should Have Spent More Time On
Conrad Crane
Carnage and Connectivity: How Our Pursuit of Fun Wars Brought the Wars Home
David Betz
Ending the Curse of Oil: Is it Possible?
Emma Ashford
2016: The Year of the Great Middle East Cyberwar?
Benjamin Runkle
Is the U.S. Military’s Plan to Keep its Edge Fatally Flawed?
Robert Haddick
From Carbon Paper to the Cloud: Fixing the Pentagon’s Back Office
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Don’t Leave Jointness to the Services: Preserving Joint Officer Development amid Goldwater-Nichols Reform
Ryan Shaw
and
Miriam Krieger
Ash Carter’s 2015 Letter to Santa
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
First Steps Towards the Force of the Future
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
The Maritime Dimension of Britain’s New Strategy
Matt Schnappauf
Radioactive in Riga: The Latvian Nuclear Standoff of 2018, Part I
Iskander Rehman
Tokyo is Showing the Way for Washington in Central Asia
Joshua Walker
Lingering Questions over the U.S.–China Cyber Affirmation
Peter Mattis
How the U.S. Army Remains the Master of Landpower
Paul Norwood
and
Benjamin Jensen
Fighting Joe Dunford’s World
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Can America Compete with China’s Great Military Leap Forward?
Peter Dombrowski
How the Iran Deal Could Complicate U.S. Efforts to Prevent a Nuclear Breakout
Michael Eisenstadt
Is America an Empire?
Tyrone Groh
and
James Lockhart
The Danger of Historical Analogies: The South China Sea and the Maginot Line
Dean Cheng
Airpower May Not Win Wars, But it Sure Doesn’t Lose Them
Mike Pietrucha
and
Jeremy Renken
A Guide to Chinese Intelligence Operations
Peter Mattis
Measuring Fleet Strength: Size Matters, But So Does Readiness To Use It
Matthew Hipple
8 Big Ideas to Turbo-Charge the U.S.–Australian Alliance
Ross Babbage
China’s New Intelligence War Against the United States
Peter Mattis
Keeping ICBMs “On Alert” Enhances Presidential Decision-Making
Hunter Hustus
Should the United States Buy the Long Range Strike Bomber? Yes
Andrew Hunter
5 Questions with Rep. Randy Forbes on Subs and Nukes
Ryan Evans
The Future of Close Air Support is Not What the Air Force Thinks
Benjamin Fernandes
Was Paul Kennedy Right? American Decline 30 Years On
Patrick Porter
The Great National Destiny: Lessons from Andrew Jackson’s Navy
Claude Berube
The Fall of Heaven, Episode 1: Red Guard
Stephen Armitage
Independent Long-Range Strike: A Failed Theory
T.X. Hammes
A Farewell to Sobriety, Part Two: Drinking During World War II
Jake Hall
Close Air Support in 2030: Moving Beyond the A-10/F-35 Debate
Derek O'Malley
and
Andrew Hill
Why do the Chinese Hack? Fear
Enrique Oti
History and America’s Atomic Future: Four Questions on Nuclear Statecraft
Francis J. Gavin
Focusing Like a Laser Beam on Directed Energy
Jason Ellis
Why An “Economic” Approach to Foreign Policy Fails
Adam Elkus
Groundhog Day in U.S.-Pakistan Relations
C. Christine Fair
Project Vulcan: Special Ops and the Tech Innovation End Game
Anthony Davis
,
James Geurts
,
Adam Jay Harrison
,
Jawad Rachami
, and
Christopher Zember
Harry Potter and the Five-Sided Labyrinth
Anonymous
The New Maritime Strategy: It’s Tricky to Balance Ends, Ways, and Means
Bryan McGrath
and
Bryan Clark
The National Security Marketplace Must Become Stronger
Chris Taylor
Could Pakistan’s Energy Crisis Bring Down the Government?
Michael Kugelman
U.S. Social Science and International Relations
Stephen Van Evera
Resetting the U.S.-Israel Alliance
Michael Eisenstadt
Video: The Third U.S. Offset Strategy and its Implications for Partners and Allies
Robert Work
A Fresh Take on the Military Pay and Benefits Debate
Miriam Krieger
and
Kevin Kenney
Reappraising the West’s Approach Toward Russia
John R. Deni
The War on the Rocks 2014 Holiday Reading List
WOTR Staff
From Dotcom to Dotmil: A Matter of Hearts and Minds
Adam Elkus
A Game-Changing Third Offset Strategy
Secretary Chuck Hagel
Innovation Warfare: Technology Domain Awareness and America’s Military Edge
Adam Jay Harrison
,
Christopher Zember
, and
Jawad Rachami
Cyber Espionage and the Digital Redistribution of Wealth
Matthew Carin
Be Careful What you Wish For: Commerce and Security in the U.S.-China Relationship
David Chmiel
A Successful NATO Summit? Proof Will Be in the Pudding
Stanley R. Sloan
Plucking and Promotion: Military Talent Management Lessons from the Past
BJ Armstrong
Israel and the Demise of “Mowing the Grass”
T.X. Hammes
The Future of Warfare: Small, Many, Smart vs. Few & Exquisite?
T.X. Hammes
Climbing the Cellar Stairs or How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love the Status Quo
Peter Munson
Military intervention, Iranian-style
Farzan Sabet
A New Look at an Old Maritime Strategy
Bryan McGrath
Realpolitik and the Misuse of History
John Bew
Can China Win the Contest of the Century?
Robert Haddick
THE GREAT GREEN SEA CONTROL FLEET
David Wise
A Rational Approach to Nuclear Weapons Policy
Al Mauroni
Hope as a Moral Hazard
Anna Simons
Gardening in a “Barren” Officer Corps
BJ Armstrong
Carlito’s Way: Resolve and the Narcissism of Great Powers
Patrick Porter
Feed the Banker, Starve the Warrior
David C. Fuquea
War Is A Video Game, And We’re Losing
Adam Elkus
Ukraine and the Art of Crisis Management
Lawrence Freedman
Ain’t No Party Like a Clausewitz Party: Part 2
Christopher Mewett
Artificial Intelligence: War’s New Grammar
Adam Elkus
Intervention in Syria and the Myth of the “Exit Strategy”
Thomas M. Nichols
Pax Britannica: A Nautical Chart for Pax Americana?
Bryan McGrath
A Reasonable Hope? Just Intervention in Syria Requires More than Good Intentions
Peter Munson
North Korea’s Theater of the Absurd and the New Number Two’s
Robert Collins
Front Row Seat: Watching COIN Fail in Afghanistan
Evan Munsing
Failure to Learn: Reflections on a Career in the Post-Vietnam Army
David Johnson
Dawn or Dusk for Unmanned Systems?
Samuel Brannen
Getting to the Army’s Better Argument
Robert Killebrew
Replacing the Boomers & Naval Soul-Searching: I
Robert Haddick
Getting Our Money’s Worth: LCS vs Iver Huitfeldt-Class
T.X. Hammes
On Rue’s Modernization and Readiness
Frank Hoffman
Submissions
Ryan Evans
