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“Aircraft Carrier”
China’s Newest Aircraft Carrier
Joseph Wehmeyer
U.S. Aircraft Carrier Strike Group Reaches Latin American Waters
Austin Cline
China’s Aircraft Carriers are Coming, But India Should Keep Calm and Carry On
Abhijit Singh
The Threat is Here, It’s Just Distributed Unevenly: A2/AD and the Aircraft Carrier
Steve Blank
Give the Empire Its Due: Can the Fate of the Death Star Tell Us Anything About Aircraft Carriers?
Noah Kanter
Not Every Flattop Is an Aircraft Carrier: McGrath at RCD
Bryan McGrath
The Enduring Relevance of the Aircraft Carrier
Congressman J. Randy Forbes
Doing It Wrong: The Value of an Aircraft Carrier
Elton C. Parker, III
Aircraft Carriers and What Comes Next
Elton C. Parker, III
What is an Italian Carrier Strike Group Doing in the Indo-Pacific?
Alessio Patalano
Carrier Strike Groups Should Be Ready to Go Dark in Conflict
Nick Danby
Turkey’s Future Drone Carriers
Olli Pekka Suorsa
and
Brendon J. Cannon
Necro-Aeronautics: Raising Undead Aircraft for War
Zachary Kallenborn
Winged Luddites: Aviators Are the Biggest Threat to Carrier Aviation
Noah Spataro
,
Trevor Phillips-Levine
, and
Andrew Tenbusch
‘Lightning Carriers’ Could Be Lightweights in an Asian War
Olli Pekka Suorsa
and
John F. Bradford
Why Is a British Carrier Strike Group Heading to the Indo-Pacific?
Alessio Patalano
Hellfires Wanted: It’s Time to Start Tasking Armed Drones as Combat Aircraft
Joe Ritter
Rethinking the U.S. Navy’s Carrier Fleet
Angus Ross
Airpower Orphans, Part II: Whatever Happened to Liaison Aircraft?
Mike Pietrucha
Samson the Carrier and Goliath the Amphib: Twin Giants of a Compromised Fleet Architecture
Noel Williams
Blurring the Lines, Part I: A Promising New Trainer Aircraft and Its Combat Variants
Mike Pietrucha
and
Jeremy Renken
The U.S. Navy’s Amphibious Assault Renaissance: It’s More Than Ships and Aircraft
George Galdorisi
and
Scott C. Truver
Who’s Responsible for the Navy’s Carrier Shortage?
Mark Cancian
How Congress and the Pentagon Joined Forces to Worsen the Navy’s Carrier Gap
Mackenzie Eaglen
and
Rick Berger
How Do We Make Our Carriers Deadlier With What We Already Have?
Jack Curtis
The Future of the Carrier Air Wing Looks Dim
Jerry Hendrix
The Pro-Carrier Argument the Navy Cannot Make
Bryan McGrath
Taking China’s Carrier Operations Seriously
Dean Cheng
Ignoring the Law on Carrier Numbers
Bryan McGrath
Carrier Calculus: How Many Do We Need?
John T. Kuehn
Gilded Capability: Overinvestment and the Survivability Paradox
Trevor Phillips-Levine
,
Andrew Tenbusch
, and
Walker D. Mills
Alliances Under Pressure
WOTR Staff
What’s Going On in Venezuela?
Joseph Wehmeyer
Why the U.S. Navy Doesn’t Build Battleships Anymore
Trent Hone
Latest Pentagon Report: China’s Military Advancing Amid Churn
Andrew Erickson
Shallow Waters, Big Lessons: What the Falklands War Reveals About Submarine Warfare
Liborio F. Palombella
A Changing World, a Constant Priority: China’s Homeland Defense
Shanshan Mei
and
Dennis J. Blasko
Trump’s Week in Asia: Gifts, Deals, and Submarines
Susannah Patton
,
Sheila Smith
,
Jenny Town
,
Zack Cooper
, and
Jacob Stokes
What the Military Does
Evan Slusser
Think Medium: The Case for “Minilateralism” to Boost Naval Shipbuilding
Nicolas Jouan
Data Centers on the 21st Century Battlefield
Alex Rough
A Skeptic’s View of the Hype Machine and Business Model of Neo-Defense Tech
Jonathan Panter
Why Russian-Indian Relations Have Been Steady in the Storm
Dmitry Gorenburg
,
Julian G. Waller
,
Jeffrey Edmonds
, and
Jeff Kucik
South Korea’s New Naval Base Throws a Jab, But Should Train for a Haymaker
Joshua NamTae Park
South Korea’s New Government and Defense Policy Is Taking Shape
Jenny Town
,
S. Paul Choi
,
Jung Jae Kwon
, and
Jaehan Park
Get Ready for the New Rules of War in the Indo-Pacific
James Kraska
and
Gavin Logan
How China Could Counter U.S. Intervention in War Over Taiwan
Joel Wuthnow
The Value of an Asian Tinder Box
Julian Spencer-Churchill
The Montreux Paradox: How a Ukraine Ceasefire Could Set the Stage for Escalation in the Black Sea
Aron Lund
Military Revolutions from the Spanish Tercio to First-Person View Drones
Antonio Salinas
and
Jason P. LeVay
The Special Sauce: How Hegseth’s Software Memo Can Start a Revolution
Lauren Dailey
and
David Rothzeid
Spectrum Supremacy: Reclaiming America’s Edge in a Contested Domain
Roslyn Layton
Rewind and Reconnoiter: Post-Brexit British Power on the Global Stage
James Rogers
and
Philip Shetler-Jones
Greenland’s Military Possibilities for the United States
Aaron Brady
An Early, Easy, and Essential Win for Trump on Defense Acquisitions Is Within Reach
Ryan Evans
Don’t Protect the U.S. Merchant Marine — Promote It
Emma Salisbury
Will Trump Focus on the Western Hemisphere?
Christopher Preble
,
Zack Cooper
, and
Melanie Marlowe
The Long Shadow of the Ladakh Crisis
Arzan Tarapore
Can Europe Fight for Taiwan?
Luis Simón
and
Toshi Yoshihara
The Cost of Sovereignty? The Future of Britain’s Defense Industrial Base
William Reynolds
What the Pentagon’s New Report on Chinese Military Power Reveals About Capabilities, Context, and Consequences
Andrew Erickson
Rethinking the Role of a Systems Integrator for Artificial Intelligence
Jim Rebesco
and
Anthony Manganiello
Beyond Fusion: Preparing for Systems Rivalry with China
Liza Tobin
,
Addis Goldman
, and
Katherine Kurata
The Adversarial
WOTR Staff
China’s New Info Warriors: The Information Support Force Emerges
Joel Wuthnow
Mare Nostrum Revisited: Maritime Competition in the Mediterranean
Jeremy Stöhs
and
Sebastian Bruns
Britain’s Strange Defeat: The 1941 Fall of Crete and Its Lessons for Taiwan
Iskander Rehman
Charting the Challenges in the Baltic Sea
Julian Pawlak
A Plan to Revitalize the Arsenal of Democracy
Michael Brown
German Atomwaffen and the Superweapon Trap
Gustav Meibauer
and
Christopher David LaRoche
It’s Still the Indian Ocean: Parsing Sino-Indian Naval Competition Where It Counts
Prashant Hosur Suhas
and
Christopher K. Colley
Give France Credit for Its Strategic Change
Gesine Weber
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
Managing a Managed Decline: The Future of Indian-Russian Relations
Chietigj Bajpaee
Understanding the Deterrence Gap in the Taiwan Strait
Jared M. McKinney
and
Peter Harris
The Tip of the American Spear? How the United Kingdom Could Pursue Military Specialization
Eliot Wilson
How Taiwan’s New President Should Respond to Chinese Coercion
Thomas J. Shattuck
and
Benjamin Lewis
Trends in Maritime Challenges Indicate Force Design 2030 Is the Proper Path
C. Travis Reese
,
Ian Brown
,
Zach Ota
,
Travis Hord
,
Leo Spaeder
, and
Brian Strom
A Very Nerdy Podcast Episode about the Navy
Russell Rumbaugh
and
Ryan Evans
Air Samurai: Is Naval Aviation Overtraining Pilots in the Age of Automation?
Walker D. Mills
and
Trevor Phillips-Levine
Turkey’s Response to the War in Gaza
Sinem Adar
Israel’s Strategic Challenge
Blaise Misztal
Don’t Rely on U.S. Law to Prevent Escalation in the Middle East
Brian Finucane
and
Michael Wahid Hanna
Getting Sporty in Russia’s Arctic
Katarzyna Zysk
and
Rebecca Pincus
Iran’s Support for Hamas and the Risk of Multi-Front Escalation
Raz Zimmt
Italy’s New Look
Leonardo Palma
You Go to War With the Industrial Base You Have, Not the Industrial Base You Want
John Barrett
Iran, Russia, and the Challenges of “Inter-Pariah Solidarity”
Mathieu Droin
and
Nicole Grajewski
It’s Time to Bring Back Conventional Deterrence Patrols
David Zikusoka
Prime Time for Software: Reimagining the Future of Defense Acquisition
Christine H. Fox
and
Akash Jain
Partnership, Not Threats: How to Deepen U.S.-Indian Naval Cooperation
Karambir Singh
and
Blake Herzinger
Dauntless Courage at Midway
Steven McGregor
NATO’s Maritime Vigilance: Optimizing the Standing Naval Force For The Future
Joshua Tallis
Strategic Outpost Brings You Santa’s 2022 National Security Gift List
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
How Can the Marines Learn From the Falklands War?
Nolan Vihlen
Invisible Blockades and Strategic Coercion
Scott Savitz
and
Scott C. Truver
Preventing Wars is as Important as Winning Them: Lessons From Past Naval Strategies
BJ Armstrong
Fixing Defense Innovation: Rewriting Acquisition and Security Regulations
Jules Hurst
Defeat China’s Navy, Defeat China’s War Plan
Robert Haddick
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
Strengthening the Black Sea Grain Agreement Short of War
Michael Petersen
and
James G. Foggo III
An Alliance Division of Labor in East Asia
Takuya Matsuda
and
Jaehan Park
Pushing Back Against China’s New Normal in the Taiwan Strait
Bonny Lin
and
Joel Wuthnow
A K-Arsenal of Democracy? South Korea and U.S. Allied Defense Procurement
Peter K. Lee
and
Tom Corben
Moving On After AUKUS: Working with France in the Indo-Pacific
Gesine Weber
and
Edgar Tam
At the Seam of Three Regions: The Case for More Basing and Access in Greece and Cyprus
Aaron Stein
India Is a Swing State — Cooperate with it Accordingly
Sharinee L. Jagtiani
and
Ameya Pratap Singh
The Strike Fighter Time Management Problem
Stephen Walsh
Too Fragile to Fight: Could the U.S. Military Withstand a War of Attrition?
Conrad Crane
How AI Would — and Wouldn’t — Factor Into a U.S.-Chinese War
Alex Stephenson
and
Ryan Fedasiuk
The Tank Is Dead: Long Live the Javelin, the Switchblade, the … ?
David Johnson
After Ukraine, Where Will India Buy Its Weapons?
Vasabjit Banerjee
and
Benjamin Tkach
Are European Navies Ready for High-Intensity Warfare?
Pierre Morcos
and
Colin Wall
Spiking the Problem: Developing a Resilient Posture in the Indo-Pacific with Passive Defenses
Stacie L. Pettyjohn
France’s Shifting Relations with China
Pierre Morcos
The Unplanned Costs of an Unmanned Fleet
Jonathan Panter
and
Johnathan Falcone
Embrace the Arms Race in Asia
Julian Spencer-Churchill
The U.S. Navy’s Plans for Unmanned and Autonomous Systems Leave Too Much Unexplained
Gregory V. Cox
‘Never Thought They Could Pull Off Such an Attack’: Prejudice and Pearl Harbor
Caesar Nafrada
and
Joseph Caddell
Richard Haass Is Here!
Zack Cooper
,
Richard Haass
,
Melanie Marlowe
, and
Christopher Preble
Credibility Controversies: The Implications of Afghanistan for the Indo-Pacific
Evan Montgomery
The Information Technology Counter-Revolution: Cheap, Disposable, and Decentralized
Jacquelyn Schneider
and
Julia Macdonald
Did Sino-American Relations Have to Deteriorate? A Better Way of Doing Counterfactual Thought Experiments
J. Peter Scoblic
,
Christopher Karvetski
, and
Philip E. Tetlock
Gradually and Then Suddenly: Explaining the Navy’s Strategic Bankruptcy
Christopher Dougherty
Europe Eyes the Indo-Pacific, But Now It’s Time to Act
Veerle Nouwens
and
Garima Mohan
Look to the 1980s to Inform the Fleet of Today
Rep. Elaine Luria
The Budget (and Fleet) That Might Have Been
Blake Herzinger
Sing, Missile Muse, of Gods and Heroes: America’s Most Fearsome Weapons Need Better Names
Tom Karako
The United States Considers Reinforcing Its ‘Pacific Sanctuary’
Wallace C. Gregson, Jr.
and
Jeffrey W. Hornung
What to Expect When You Don’t Want Your Adversaries to Know What to Expect
Jerry Meyerle
and
Amelia MacSleyne
A Future Chinese Indian Ocean Fleet?
Christopher K. Colley
The Longest Telegram: A Visionary Blueprint for the Comprehensive Grand Strategy Against China We Need
C. Lee Shea
A New Great Game Finds the South Atlantic
Ralph Espach
Showing Up is Half the Battle: U.S. Maritime Forces in the Indian Ocean
Darshana M. Baruah
The United States and Japan Still Benefit From Complementary Maritime Capabilities
Jim Hartman
Whispers from Wargames About the Gray Zone
Robert C. Rubel
Can the United States Prevent a War over Taiwan?
Robert D. Blackwill
and
Philip Zelikow
Strategic Tradeoffs in U.S. Naval Force Structure — Rule the Waves or Wave the Flag?
Erik Gartzke
and
Jon Lindsay
Desert Storm at 30: Aerospace Power and the U.S. Military
David Deptula
Navigating the Shoals of Renewed American Naval Power: Imperatives for the Next Secretary of the Navy
Bryan Durkee
and
Chris Bassler
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
There and Back Again: The Fall and Rise of Britain’s ‘East of Suez’ Basing Strategy
William James
Machine Learning and Life-and-Death Decisions on the Battlefield
Brad DeWees
,
Chris Umphres
, and
Maddy Tung
Convoy Escort: The Navy’s Forgotten (Purpose) Mission
David Alman
The New Great Game at Sea
Geoffrey F. Gresh
Myths or Moving Targets? Continuity and Change in China’s Nuclear Forces
Austin Long
How Biden Should Handle the South China Sea Disputes
Krista E. Wiegand
Lessons from the Roosevelt: A Call for Improving the U. S. Navy’s Preparedness for Biological Threats
Brian L. Pike
and
Gregory D. Koblentz
Putting Combatant Commanders on a Demand Signal Diet
Mackenzie Eaglen
Is Esper’s New Plan for the Navy Enough for the Indo-Pacific?
Mark Montgomery
Bringing Congress to the (Wargaming) Table for a Bigger and Better Navy
Rep. Mike Gallagher
Why the Pentagon Should Focus on Taiwan
Elbridge Colby
and
Jim Mitre
Arming Without Aiming? Challenges for Japan’s Amphibious Capability
Benjamin Schreer
Lawyers Trying Lawyers: How the Doolittle Raids Shaped Military Commissions
Michel Paradis
and
Aaron O'Connell
A New Look at Iran’s Complicated Relationship with the Taliban
Barnett Rubin
Making a U.S. Digital Service Academy Work
Harrison Schramm
and
Todd Lyons
Lessons for the Navy’s New Frigate From the Littoral Combat Ship
Thibaut Delloue
Lessons on Aging Gracefully
Josh Portzer
,
Arturo Trejo
, and
Tommy Shannon
Democracy’s Squad: India’s Change of Heart and the Future of the Quad
Jeff M. Smith
Smoke on the Water: The Global Challenge of Shipyard Fires
Matt Phillips
The U.S. Military Won’t Return to Business as Usual After the Pandemic
Rebecca Friedman Lissner
What Options are On the Table in the South China Sea?
Zack Cooper
and
Bonnie S. Glaser
“Cocaine Logistics” for the Marine Corps
Walker D. Mills
,
Dylan “Joose” Phillips-Levine
, and
Collin Fox
More Than Just a Fire: The Implications of the Bonhomme Richard Catastrophe
Bryan McGrath
Bring Back the Seaplane
David Alman
The 100-Ship Navy
Jonathan Panter
,
Anand Jantzen
, and
Johnathan Falcone
America Shouldn’t Restart Production of Weapons-Grade Uranium
Alan J. Kuperman
Crisis Response When the Status Quo Is a Crisis
Tellis Bethel
and
Ian Ralby
America’s Interest in Diego Garcia
Rear Adm. (Ret.) Michael McDevitt
Ships! Ships! All We Need is Ships!
Jeff W. Benson
and
Mark A. McDonnell
The Pentagon Should Train for — and Not Just Talk About — Great-Power Competition
Tom Greenwood
and
Owen Daniels
Discontinued: America’s Continuous Bomber Presence
Peter Layton
A Microdose of Lithium in the Water Could Reduce Military Suicides
Tyler Black
and
Edward H. Carpenter
Getting the Context of Marine Corps Reform Right
Jeff Cummings
,
Scott Cuomo
,
Noah Spataro
, and
Olivia Garard
Five Ways the U.S. Military Will Change After the Pandemic
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
COVID-19 and British Nuclear Deterrence
David Arceneaux
The Answer is to Empower, not Attack, the World Health Organization
Sen. Chris Murphy
From Stockdale to Crozier, History Has a Way of Avenging the Humbled and Humbling the Proud
Taylor Baldwin Kiland
and
Peter Fretwell
Stop Declaring War on a Virus
Mark Hannah
Aftershocks: The Coronavirus Pandemic and the New World Disorder
Undersecretary Colin Kahl
and
Ariana Berengaut
The Future of Tactical Airlift Is Here and It Is Vertical
Walker D. Mills
and
Dylan “Joose” Phillips-Levine
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
Australia’s Big Stake in India’s Military Reorganization
David Brewster
The Navy’s Crisis of Special Trust and Confidence
Doyle Hodges
Pandemics and the U.S. Military: Lessons from 1918
Michael Shurkin
Beyond “Conventional Wisdom”: Evaluating the PLA’s South China Sea Bases in Operational Context
J. Michael Dahm
The Case for a Pacific Deterrence Initiative
Eric Sayers
and
Randall G. Schriver
Does Might Make Right? Individuals, Ethics, and Exceptionalism
Francis J. Gavin
The Grim Reality of the Cruel Seas
Claude Berube
The Conventional Wisdom on China’s Island Bases Is Dangerously Wrong
Gregory Poling
Mosaic Warfare: Small and Scalable are Beautiful
Benjamin Jensen
and
John Paschkewitz
Artificial Intelligence, Foresight, and the Offense-Defense Balance
Ben Garfinkel
and
Allan Dafoe
Corbett offers more on Space than Mitchell
James W. E. Smith
Mobile Nuclear Power Will Enable a Logistics Revolution for the Army
Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Dan Christman
Hypersonic Weapons: Tactical Uses and Strategic Goals
Alan Cummings
Improve F/A-18 Super Hornet Training and Readiness with More Missiles and Fewer Missions
Graham Scarbro
Make China Great Again: Xi’s Truly Grand Strategy
Andrew Erickson
A Revolution at Sea: Old is New Again
James Lacey
The Devil You Know: Trust in Military Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Charles Clark
and
Connor S. McLemore
A Guide to Becoming an Admiral in the Russian Navy
Dmitry Gorenburg
and
Kasey Stricklin
Strategy or Straitjacket? Three Reasons Why People Are Still Arguing About the National Defense Strategy
Christopher Dougherty
Artificial Intelligence Meets Bureaucratic Politics
Andrew Imbrie
Countering Missiles with Missiles: U.S. Military Posture After the INF Treaty
Thomas G. Mahnken
Ten Rules for Defense Management Reform
Peter Levine
Addressing America’s Operational Shortfall in the Pacific
Mark Montgomery
and
Eric Sayers
The Problem with the Narrative of ‘Proxy War’ in Iraq
Douglas A. Ollivant
and
Erica Gaston
Muting the Hype over Hypersonics: The Offense-Defense Balance in Historical Perspective
Heather Venable
and
Clarence Abercrombie
An Open Letter to President Donald Trump on U.S. Tensions with Iran
WOTR Staff
‘Hard Choices’ and Strategic Insolvency: Where the National Defense Strategy Falls Short
Rick Berger
and
Mackenzie Eaglen
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 Turkish Navy in an Era of Great Power Competition
Ryan Gingeras
An Empire, If You Can Find It? American Hegemony and Imperial Control
Emma Ashford
The Dual-Track Approach: A Long-Term Strategy for a Post-INF Treaty World
John D. Maurer
America and Japan in a Post-INF World
Sugio Takahashi
and
Eric Sayers
Future War: Not Back to the Future
Mike Dana
Jaw-Jaw: China’s Great Power Disease
Edward Luttwak
and
Brad Carson
Drones of Mass Destruction: Drone Swarms and the Future of Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Weapons
Zachary Kallenborn
and
Philipp C. Bleek
In Defense of Best Practices
Michael Lortz
(Moral) Hazards to Navigation at Sea
Doyle Hodges
Technological Identity and Autonomous Systems: Lessons from the Battleship
Steven Hallgren
Angles and Dangles: Arihant and the Dilemma of India’s Undersea Nuclear Weapons
Yogesh Joshi
When the China Dream and the European Dream Collide
Theresa Fallon
Is Japan’s New Defense Plan Ambitious Enough?
Jeffrey W. Hornung
and
Michael J. Green
Climate Change as a National Security Threat and What to Do About It
Caitlin Werrell
and
Francesco Femia
Assessing America’s Indo-Pacific Budget Shortfall
Eric Sayers
Jaw-Jaw: China is a Funny Sort of Revisionist Power — A Conversation with Dean Cheng
Dean Cheng
and
Brad Carson
The Case for a Permanent U.S. Military Presence in Poland
Michael A. Hunzeker
and
Alexander Lanoszka
How Long Can the U.S. Military’s Golden Hour Last?
Tanisha M. Fazal
,
Todd Rasmussen
,
Paul Nelson
, and
P.K. Carlton
Applying America’s Superpowers: How the U.S. Should Respond to China’s Informatization Strategy
Charles Rybeck
,
Lanny Cornwell
, and
Philip Sagan
Call for Articles: The Military Roles and Missions Analysis that America Deserves
Ryan Evans
Denmark in NATO: Paying for Protection, Bleeding for Prestige
Gary Schaub, Jr.
and
André Ken Jakobsson
Modern Solution, Ancient Problem: Measuring Military Effectiveness in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Brad DeWees
Don’t Fear the Audit! Calculated Risk and Agile Accountability in the Sea Services
Under Secretary of the Navy Thomas B. Modly
Searching for a High Note in the U.S.-India Maritime Partnership
Abhijit Singh
Countering China’s Militarization of the Indo-Pacific
Michael J. Green
and
Andrew Shearer
The U.S. Military’s Dangerous Embedded Assumptions
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Forecasting the Future of Warfare
Robert H. Scales
15 Big Ideas to Operationalize America’s Indo-Pacific Strategy
Eric Sayers
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
Entry 66: About That Armada…
Van Jackson
America is Well Within Range of a Big Surprise, So Why Can’t It See?
T.X. Hammes
What If Kim Jong Un Decides to Bloody America’s Nose First?
Michael P. Dempsey
Righting the Listing Ship of Navy Readiness — Without Sinking the Pentagon
Mackenzie Eaglen
China’s ‘Three Warfares’ in Perspective
Peter Mattis
Britain’s Nuclear Deterrent Isn’t a Military Asset, and Shouldn’t Be Funded as One
Mark Galeotti
Stripping the Altars of Long-Term Defense Planning
Thomas-Durell Young
Marines, Algorithms, and Ammo: Taking ‘Team of Teams’ to the Contested Littorals
Jeff Cummings
,
Scott Cuomo
,
Olivia Garard
, and
Noah Spataro
Quad 2.0’s Challenges for India: A Delicate Balancing Act
Prateek Joshi
The False Promise of the OA-X
Adam Chitwood
Buggy Whips and Segways: Historical Misinnovation in National Security and Intelligence Technology
Joseph Caddell
and
Robert Stiegel
Ambition Meets Reality for Global Britain
William James
Why the Navy Needs a Fighting Connector: Distributed Maritime Operations and the Modern Littoral Environment
Douglas King
and
Brett Friedman
A Forgotten Part of Fleets
B.J. Armstrong
Chasing Grandeur? What You Need to Know About the 2017 French Strategic Review
Guillaume Lasconjarias
and
Florent de Saint-Victor
The Royal Navy Has a Problem
James Goldrick
Towards Total Defense Manufacturing Visibility
Rep. Mike Gallagher
A Fleet to Do What?
Phillip Pournelle
Killing Sanctuary: The Coming Era of Small, Smart, Pervasive Lethality
J. Noel Williams
How Surprising Is North Korea’s Nuclear Success? Picking Up Where Proliferation Theories Leave Off
Michael Horowitz
A Business Approach to America’s Warfighting Model
Benjamin Jensen
,
Neil Hollenbeck
, and
Arnel David
Is Boris Johnson Steaming to the South China Sea? If So, Only Slowly
Euan Graham
Is the Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons Immoral?
Charles Dunlap
Strategic Outpost’s Second Annual Summer Vacation Reading List
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
The Future of Military Robotics Looks Like a Nature Documentary
Gregory C. Allen
The Path to Prototype Warfare
Robert Kozloski
Seapower, Seablindness, and National Security: A German Perspective
Moritz Brake
North Korea’s ICBM: A New Missile and a New Era
Ankit Panda
and
Vipin Narang
How Could This Happen? The Fitzgerald, the U.S. Navy, and Collisions at Sea
Bryan McGrath
With Washington in Chaos, China Runs the Table in Asia
Euan Graham
The Ten Main Defense Challenges Facing Macron’s France
Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer
Signaling Resolve or Capability? The Difference Matters on the Korean Peninsula
Kyle Haynes
It’s Much Bigger Than Afghanistan: U.S. Strategy for a Transformed Region
Barnett Rubin
Why Mattis versus Kim Jong-Un Will End Badly for Us All
Van Jackson
Russia: A Land Power Hungry for the Sea
Tom Fedyszyn
Unpacking the Fallacy that China Tests New Presidents
Steven Stashwick
Maritime Power and U.S. Strategic Influence in Asia
Patrick Cronin
Forget the Subs: What Taipei Can Learn from Tehran About Asymmetric Defense
Colin Carroll
and
Rebecca Friedman Lissner
Trumpeting the Alliance: How Much Will the United States and Japan Lean on Each Other?
Michael Auslin
Penny Wise, Pound Foolish: Trump’s Misguided Views of European Defense Spending
Richard Sokolsky
and
Gordon Adams
America’s Pacific Posture: Staying the Course
Brian Harding
and
Lindsey Ford
A Guide to the Fleet the United States Needs
Bryan Clark
and
Bryan McGrath
Has China Been Practicing Preemptive Missile Strikes Against U.S. Bases?
Thomas Shugart
A Quick Review of the Navy’s New Force Structure Assessment
Bryan McGrath
Australia and President Trump: Four Risks and Twelve Opportunities
Richard Fontaine
Think Bigger: The Third Offset and Extending the Battlefield
Benjamin Jensen
Political Airpower, Part I: Say No to the No-Fly Zone
Mike Benitez
and
Mike Pietrucha
China’s Artificial Islands Are Bigger (And a Bigger Deal) Than You Think
Thomas Shugart
Defense Reform in the Next Administration
Brad Carson
and
Morgan Plummer
Britain is Committed to Defeating ISIL and Staying Robust on Defense
Deputy Ambassador Patrick Davies
Asia’s Looming Subsurface Challenge
John Schaus
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Lauren Dickey
, and
Andrew Metrick
Generals and Political Interventions in American History
James Joyner
China Signals Resolve with Bomber Flights Over the South China Sea
Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga
,
Cristina Garafola
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Astrid Cevallos
, and
Arthur Chan
All Cards on the Table: First-Use of Nuclear Weapons
Al Mauroni
and
David Jonas
We Already Have an Arsenal Plane: It’s Called the B-52
T.J. May
and
Mike Pietrucha
A Guide to Stepping it Up in the South China Sea
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
War and Survivability of U.S. Naval Forces
Bryan McGrath
The Choice for Asia in the 21st Century
Sen. John McCain
The Battle of Midway: The Complete Intelligence Story
Mark Munson
Do Not Give Up on Stealth Technology
Robert Spalding
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Adam Lowther
History Isn’t a Playbook: Misguided Analogies and Great Power Competition
Ali Wyne
Militarizing Musk
Jeffrey Becker
Reviving the Anglo-Franco-American Tripartite in the Middle East
Simond de Galbert
What China’s New Military Rap Video Teaches Us About the People’s Liberation Army
Lauren Dickey
Top Gun at 30: A Retrospective from Two Naval Aviators
Greg Malandrino
and
Jeff McLean
The “Bow Wave” and the Military Balance
Matthew Fay
This Debate Over a New Cruise Missile Has Gone Nuclear
Kingston Reif
Competitive Mobilization: How Would We Fare Against China?
Robert Haddick
Sustaining the Third Offset Strategy in the Next Administration
Shawn Brimley
and
Loren DeJonge Schulman
“You’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat”: Principles for Getting the U.S Navy Right
Bryan McGrath
The Weight of the Punch: British Ambition and Power
Patrick Porter
Building a Force to Fail
Peter McAleer
Rethinking the Apocalypse: Time for Bold Thinking About the Second Nuclear Age
Andrew Krepinevich
and
Jacob Cohn
America and China: It’s Complicated
Dean Cheng
How China’s New Russian Air Defense System Could Change Asia
Timothy R. Heath
Reestablishing Deterrence: A Guide for Taiwan’s New President
Lauren Dickey
Is the U.S. Military’s Plan to Keep its Edge Fatally Flawed?
Robert Haddick
The Cost of Credible Deterrence in Taiwan
Jennifer M. Turner
China’s Bomber Flight into the Central Pacific: Wake-Up Call for the United States
Dean Cheng
Revitalizing Wargaming is Necessary to Be Prepared for Future Wars
Robert Work
and
Gen. Paul Selva
The Decline and Fall of British Sea Power May Not Be Over
John T. Kuehn
This is How Europe Needs to Stand up to Terrorism
Martin Michelot
and
Benjamin Haddad
The Maritime Dimension of Britain’s New Strategy
Matt Schnappauf
12 Other Clashes and Close Calls with the Russians
Mark Stout
and
B.J. Armstrong
Britain Released a New Strategy Document: What Does it Say?
Patrick Bury
Three Offsets for American Landpower Dominance
Paul Norwood
and
Benjamin Jensen
The Xi–Ma Handshake: What it Does and Doesn’t Mean for Cross-Strait Relations
Patrick Cronin
and
Harry Krejsa
Marco Rubio’s Plan to Rebuild and Modernize the Military is the Right One
Bryan McGrath
5 Questions with Rep. Randy Forbes on Freedom of Navigation and the South China Sea
Ryan Evans
Trump’s Plan for Vets and the Politics of Boots on the Ground
John Amble
The U.S. Navy’s Self-Imposed Blockade
Noel Williams
Great Power Rivalry: Anti-Access and the Threat to the Liberal Order
Iskander Rehman
The Emperor’s New Clothes: The Self-Delusions of American Naval Power
Robert C. Rubel
How the U.S. Army Remains the Master of Landpower
Paul Norwood
and
Benjamin Jensen
Can America Compete with China’s Great Military Leap Forward?
Peter Dombrowski
What Should We Do If the Bomber Can’t Get Through?
E. John Teichert
What Do Lean Startups Have to Teach the Department of Defense?
Jeff McLean
Good, Bad, and Ugly Options for Congress After the Iran Agreement
Ilan Goldenberg
and
Nicholas A. Heras
A Bigger Navy and the Spirit of 2007
Bryan McGrath
The Inter-Service Wars Are Looking Like Calvinball
James Joyner
Putin’s Plan to Deter Hawks in Washington
Michael Kofman
Political Scientists and the Military
Paula Thornhill
and
Rachel Whitlark
Ghost Fleet: The Best Techno-thriller since Red Storm Rising.
Claude Berube
5 Questions with Sen. John McCain on Defense Acquisition Reform and Drinking with Deng
Ryan Evans
The Great National Destiny: Lessons from Andrew Jackson’s Navy
Claude Berube
Independent Long-Range Strike: A Failed Theory
T.X. Hammes
(W)Archives: The Battle of Midway and What Defeat Looks Like
Mark Stout
The A-10, the F-35, and the Future of Close Air Support
Derek O'Malley
and
Andrew Hill
Short Legs Can’t Win Arms Races: Range Issues and New Threats to Aerial Refueling put U.S. Strategy at Risk
Greg Knepper
and
Peter W. Singer
How China’s Land Reclamation Fits in its Regional Strategy for Dominance
Patrick Cronin
Time for a Private-Sector Pivot on Military Technology
Ben FitzGerald
and
Katrina Timlin
An Epic Congressional Failure on Defense
Dakota L. Wood
Parsimonious Albion: Is the UK Going Wobbly?
Frank Hoffman
The Navy’s New Museum Drone and Strategic Malpractice
Robert Martinage
and
Shawn Brimley
Weekend Reading: April 10-12 Edition
Lauren Katzenberg
Distributed Maritime Operations: Back to the Future?
Benjamin Jensen
A “Better” Maritime Strategy
Frank Hoffman
China’s Menacing Sandcastles in the South China Sea
Andrew Erickson
,
Austin Strange
,
Dean Cheng
,
Ely Ratner
,
Shawn Brimley
,
Robert Haddick
,
Mira Rapp-Hooper
, and
Zack Cooper
No, the Russian Navy Isn’t Going to Collapse
Dmitry Gorenburg
When the U.S. Navy Enters the next Super Bowl, Will It Play like the Denver Broncos?
Phillip Pournelle
A Deepening Defense Relationship on India’s Republic Day
Stephen Tankel
Advice for France in its “War on Terror”
Thomas Lynch
,
Cindy Storer
,
Mark Stout
,
Stephen Tankel
, and
Clint Watts
A Cold War Legacy: The Decline of Stealth
Andrew Metrick
Naval Leadership in the Age of Superdeployments
Jimmy Drennan
Needed Now: A Realistic Strategy Force Structure for the 21st Century
Harlan Ullman
The South China Sea: Navigating the Most Dangerous Place in the World
Michael McDevitt
Weekend Reading: October 24-26
Juliana Shafroth
To Save Money, Go Unmanned
Paul Scharre
and
Daniel Burg
Offset Strategies & Warfighting Regimes
Shawn Brimley
Chaos and Tragedy in a “Post-War” Zone: Last Days in Vietnam
David Mattingly
What China Should Learn from Russia’s Ukraine Adventure
Ali Wyne
A Master Plan to Counter China’s Growing Military Might?
Harry Kazianis
Scotland’s Referendum: To Great Michael or Calum’s Road?
Claude Berube
Weekend Reading: 22 August
Usha Sahay
The Paradox of American Naval Power
Bryan McGrath
National Defense Panel: Budget Can’t Support 2014 QDR
John Amble
The Shadow Wars of the 21st Century
David Barno
Beyond UCLASS: Preparing the Navy for Next Generation Warfare
Samuel Brannen
and
Michael Horowitz
Getting Unmanned Naval Aviation Right
Shawn Brimley
and
Bryan McGrath
Sinking the Next-13-Navies Fallacy
James Holmes
China’s Most Dangerous Missile (So Far)
Robert Haddick
(W)Archives: Size Isn’t Everything
Mark Stout
Reviewing Hayao Miyazaki’s “The Wind Rises,” or: Why You Should Start Watching Cartoons (Seriously)
Kathleen J. McInnis
Can China Win the Contest of the Century?
Robert Haddick
China: Engagement vs. Estrangement
Elton C. Parker, III
Ball in China’s Court: Obama’s Asia Trip
Robert Haddick
A Rational Approach to Nuclear Weapons Policy
Al Mauroni
Inevitable Conflict in the South China Sea?
Claude Berube
Is the DoD Innovating? How the New Budget Stacks Up
Paul Scharre
Navy and Marine Power from the Sea: The Nation’s “Perfect Blend”
Robert Holzer
Why America Needs an Independent Air Force
Colonel Scott D. Campbell
,
Captain Charles L. Cashin III
,
Captain William J. Parker III
,
Robert Spalding
, and
Charles E. Berger
America Has No Answer to China’s Salami-slicing
Robert Haddick
Hagel’s Remarks at the the Munich Security Conference
Secretary Chuck Hagel
Future Platforms: Unmanned Naval Operations
Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus
Top 25 from our first year
Ryan Evans
,
John Amble
,
Usha Sahay
, and
Lauren Katzenberg
Getting to the Army’s Better Argument
Robert Killebrew
Weekend Reading: Friday the 13th Edition
Usha Sahay
The “Shrink Wrap” Strategy
Bryan McGrath
Crisis Management Needs a Makeover
Robert Haddick
Thoughts on the All-Volunteer Force from Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery
Admiral John C. Harvey Jr.
The Hudson Center for American Sea Power: An Interview with Bryan McGrath
Ryan Evans
Replacing the Boomers & Naval Soul-Searching: II
Robert Haddick
The Pentagon is Not Adapting
Robert Haddick
5 Questions on Future War in the Pacific
Frank Hoffman
The Importance of the Battle of Midway
Tom Hone
It’s All About the Narrative, Stupid
Elton C. Parker, III
Weekend Reading: August 16
Usha Sahay
Weekend Reading, August 9
Lauren Katzenberg
You May Not Be Interested in Cyber War, but It’s Interested in You
Frank Hoffman
Admiral Xiao’s Influence and Beyond
Dean Cheng
On Rue’s Modernization and Readiness
Frank Hoffman
Force Modernization and Readiness: A Zero Sum Game?
W. Jonathan Rue
Five Myths about AirSea Battle
Bryan McGrath
Why Russia’s Export Failures Matter For India
Vasabjit Banerjee
and
Benjamin Tkach
Beyond the Missile: A Cost-Per-Effect Blueprint for the Future Force
Erik Schuh
Deep Learning From Operation Sindoor: Five Takeaways From a Four-Day War
Sameer Lalwani
,
Shailender Arya
, and
David Brostoff
Containing the Threat of Containerized Missiles
Zane Tremmel
A New Way of Warfare Requires More Than New Tech
Gen (ret.) Nick Carter
The Affordable Mass the Air Force Is Looking For Is Hiding in Plain Sight
Ben McNally
The Hidden Cost of a Missile: Why the Headlines Get Cost Wrong
Erik Schuh
How South Korea Can Help the U.S. Navy Stay Afloat in the Pacific
Jeff Kucik
How Actors Within Venezuela Are Responding to U.S. Pressure
John Polga-Hecimovich
,
Laura Cristina Dib
,
Dorothy Kronick
,
Julia Buxton
, and
David Smilde
Beyond Decision Superiority: The Role of Intelligence in Innovation & Adaptation
Michael Borja
Lots of Royal Soft Power but Any Concrete Outcomes?
Andrew Mumford
,
Matthew Savill
,
Emma Salisbury
,
Jacob Parakilas
, and
Hillary Briffa
The Future of Criminal Drone Use in Latin America
Henry Ziemer
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
Why Recent Surprise Attacks Against Russia and Iran Should Worry Taiwan
Michael A. Hunzeker
and
Yuster Yu
Marching to Different Drums: The Army’s Birthday Parade as Seen from China
J. William DeMarco
We Need a Marine Corps, Part I: A Corps in Crisis
Ben Connable
Modernization as Readiness in the U.S. Marine Corps
Keenan Chirhart
and
Scott Humr
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
Force de l’Europe: How Realistic is a French Nuclear Umbrella?
Alexander Sorg
Deciphering French Strategy in the Indo-Pacific
Léonie Allard
Finding Adversaries Hiding in the Defense Department’s Supply Chains
Christine Michienzi
South Korea Should Lean into Nuclear-Powered Submarines
Jihoon Yu
Trump’s Panamanian Aspirations Are a Canal to Nowhere
Richard Sanders
Moving Toward Defense as a Service
Jake Chapman
This is Not the Status Quo You’re Looking For
Lauren Dickey
and
Matthew Kent
I Blame the Navy’s Strategic Woes on the Chiefs of Naval Operations
Bruce Stubbs
Can the United Kingdom and France Team Up in the Third Nuclear Age?
Paul Cormarie
Don’t Ever Invade China: Xi Jinping Prioritizes Border, Coastal, and Air Defense
Shanshan Mei
and
Dennis J. Blasko
The Calm Before the Swarm: Drone Warfare at Sea in the Age of the Missile
Joshua Tallis
Rewind and Reconnoiter: The Future of Tactical Airlift is Here and it is Vertical with Walker D. Mills and Dylan “Joose” Phillips-Levine
Walker Mills
and
Dylan “Joose” Phillips-Levine
Strategic Outpost’s 2024 Summer Vacation Reading List
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Deep Strikes into Russia: A Partner’s Decision for Ukraine’s Strategic Success
Serhii Kuzan
Quality Has a Quality All Its Own: The Virtual Attrition Value of Superior-Performance Weapons
Evan Montgomery
,
Travis Sharp
, and
Tyler Hacker
Rewind and Reconnoiter: “Recalculating Route”: A Realistic Risk Assessment for GPS with Brandon Davenport and Rich Ganske
Brandon Davenport
and
Rich Ganske
Revisiting the Tanker War
Stephen Phillips
Outgunned in the Drone Fight: The U.S. Military Is Failing to Adopt the Next Machine Gun
Trevor Phillips-Levine
and
Walker D. Mills
Is Italy Needed in the Indo-Pacific?
Matteo Mazziotti di Celso
Beating the Ossification Trap: Why Reform, Not Spending, Will Salvage American Power
Michael J Mazarr
Europe’s Marines in the Future European Littoral Operating Environment
Sidharth Kaushal
Getting “Left-of-Launch” in the Counter-Drone Fight
Paul Lushenko
and
Caitlin Lee
Written in Black and Red: Asymmetric Threats and Affordable Unmanned Surface Vessels
Mike Knickerbocker
The United Kingdom’s Indo-Pacific Engagement
Peter Chalk
Al-Aqsa Storm Heralds the Rise of Non-state Special Operations
Leo Blanken
,
Ian Rice
, and
Craig Whiteside
America’s Failing Iran Nuclear Policy: Time for a Course Adjustment
Michael Eisenstadt
Cocaine Codfish: How the War on Drugs Can Inform the Fight against Illegal Fishing
Aaron Delano-Johnson
Plus ça change: A French Approach to Naval Warfare in the 21st Century
Michael Shurkin
Alliance Assignments: Defense Priorities for Key NATO States
Stephen Flanagan
and
Anna M. Dowd
Logistics Interdiction for Taiwan Unification Campaigns
Jacob Maywald
,
Benjamin Hazen
,
Edward Salo
, and
Michael Hugos
Lessons Learned or Lessons Observed: The U.S. Navy’s Relationship with Mine Warfare
Tom Wester
and
Joe Mancini
Iran’s Proxy Fleets-in-Being
Shawn Bunting
What Allies Want: Delivering the U.S. National Defense Strategy’s Ambition on Allies and Partners
Sean Monaghan
and
Deborah Cheverton
Disappearing Act: Integrated Training with Air and Ground Forces
Andrew Tenbusch
and
Trevor Phillips-Levine
The Need to Invest in Long-Range Fires
Josh Portzer
and
Jonathan Gosselin
Money Isn’t Enough: Getting Serious About Precision Munitions
Tyler Hacker
Sustaining Distributed Forces in a Conflict with China
John Sattely
and
Jesse Johnson
In Defense of Denial: Why Deterring China Requires New Airpower Thinking
Maximilian K. Bremer
and
Kelly A. Grieco
How the Ukraine War Accelerates the Defense Strategy
Jim Mitre
For the Sake of Ceremony: Should the U.S. Navy Continue its Airborne Forward Air Controller Program?
Trevor Phillips-Levine
and
Andrew Tenbusch
Miscalibration of Trust in Human Machine Teaming
John Christianson
,
Di Cooke
, and
Courtney Stiles Herdt
The Case for Japanese Land Power in the First Island Chain
Yusuke Kawachi
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
Toward a More Dynamic Italian Military
Federico Borsari
Ukraine Needs Air Defense Assistance to Protect Hard-Won Victories on the Ground
Justin Bronk
Mending the “Broken Arrow”: Confidence Building Measures at the AI-Nuclear Nexus
Lauren Kahn
Sustainable Aviation Fuel: Investing in the Future
David Alman
Sustainment of the Stand-In Force
John Sattely
and
Jason A. Paredes
Not So Fast: Insights from a 1944 War Plan Help Explain Why Invading Taiwan Is a Costly Gamble
Benjamin Jensen
Beating the Authoritarian Legacy: Upgrading Conscription in Greece and Taiwan
Antonis Kamaras
The Fourth Taiwan Strait Crisis Is Just Starting
Christopher P. Twomey
Helping India Replace Russia in the Value Arms Market
Vasabjit Banerjee
and
Benjamin Tkach
Amateur Hour Part I: The Chinese Invasion of Taiwan
Mike Pietrucha
Eight New Points on the Porcupine: More Ukrainian Lessons for Taiwan
Andrew Erickson
and
Gabriel Collins
Insights for Marine (and Beyond) Force Design from the Russo-Ukrainian War
Noel Williams
The U.S. Military’s Force-Management Tug-of-War
Caitlin Lee
How Japan Can Help Save Taiwan: Securing the First Island Chain
Nozomu Yoshitomi
From Waterloo to Pearl Harbor: How We Understand National Security Events
Joseph Caddell
The War We Dread
Justin Lynch
and
Emma Morrison
Turn On the Light, Extinguish the Fire: Israel’s New Way of War
Eran Ortal
The Problems of Politics and Posture Are Baked into the System
Bryan McGrath
The Unmet Promise of the Global Posture Review
Becca Wasser
Is America Still Born to Rule the Seas?
Claude Berube
The Malacca Dilemma: Growing Chinese Military Power
Thomas Shugart
A Japanese Seaplane Could Be the Difference-Maker for the U.S. Military
David Alman
In Post-American Central Asia, Russia and China are Tightening Their Grip
Bradley Jardine
and
Edward Lemon
Zapad-2021: What to Expect From Russia’s Strategic Military Exercise
Michael Kofman
Crowded Skies and Turbulent Seas: Assessing the Full Scope of NATO-Russian Military Incidents
Ralph Clem
and
Ray Finch
Mind the Gap: How China’s Civilian Shipping Could Enable a Taiwan Invasion
Thomas Shugart
Sailors, Sailors Everywhere and not a Berth to Sleep: The Illusion of Forward Posture in the Western Pacific
Graham Jenkins
Death Without Deterrence, or Why Tripwire Forces Are Not Enough
Paul Poast
and
Dan Reiter
The Phantom of Arctic Misgovernance
Joshua Tallis
The White House Should Show Its Cards Earlier: Reveal the Defense Budget Passback Guidance
Mackenzie Eaglen
and
Dov S. Zakheim
The U.S. Navy in the Indian Ocean: India’s ‘Goldilocks’ Dilemma
Abhijit Singh
Mutual Suspicion, Mutual Threats: Getting Japan and South Korea to Work Together
Andrew Park
and
Elliot Silverberg
Getting the Defense Department Off the Hamster Wheel: Reducing Operating Costs to Invest in the Future of the Force
Doug Berenson
Steering in the Right Direction in the Military-Technical Revolution
Robert Work
,
James A. Winnefeld, Jr.
, and
Stephanie O’Sullivan
The State of (Deterrence by) Denial
Elbridge Colby
and
Walter Slocombe
Predictable Unpredictability? U.S. Arctic Strategy and Ways of Doing Business in the Region
Katarzyna Zysk
Trust and Tech: AI Education in The Military
Joe Chapa
Defense Strategy and the Empire State of Mind: How Preparing for the Best Can Leave Washington Vulnerable to the Rest
Evan Montgomery
To Rule the Invisible Battlefield: The Electromagnetic Spectrum and Chinese Military Power
Shanshan Mei
Focusing the Military Services’ Arctic Strategies
Joshua Tallis
The Faultline Between Futurists and Traditionalists in National Security
John Speed Meyers
and
David Jackson
The Six Blind Men and the Elephant: Differing Views on the U.S. Defense Budget
Thomas Spoehr
Profiteers, Vultures, and the Defeat of the U.N. Embargo on Libya
Peter Kirechu
Elf Confidential: Santa’s 2020 National Security Gift List
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Lessons from Operation Ke for the Marine Corps
Ben Ho
More Space Wargames, Please
Shane Bilsborough
The Air Force Pilot Retention Crisis Is Not Over
Tobias Switzer
The Second Nagorno-Karabakh War, Two Weeks In
Michael Kofman
and
Leonid Nersisyan
The Great Fishing Competition
Lisa McKinnon Munde
Has Trump Driven China and Iran Together?
Philip H. Gordon
Revelations and Opportunities: What the United States Can Learn from the Sino-Indian Crisis
Sameer Lalwani
The Pandemic and America’s Response to Future Bioweapons
Andrea Howard
What Can Military and Civilian Leaders Do to Prevent the Military’s Politicization?
Risa Brooks
COVID-19 and the Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918-19
Howard Phillips
Germany, Wilsonianism, and the Return of Realpolitik
Dominik Wullers
The Conventional Wisdom Still Stands: America Can Deal with China’s Artificial Island Bases
Olli Pekka Suorsa
To Deter China, the Naval Services Must Integrate
Rep. Mike Gallagher
Slaying the Unicorn: The Army and Fixed-Wing Attack
Mike Pietrucha
Avoiding the Charge of the Light Brigade Against China
Mike Pietrucha
Climbing the Escalation Ladder: India and the Balakot Crisis
Rohan Mukherjee
A Striking New Vision for the Marines, and a Wakeup Call for the Other Services
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Airpower Orphans, Part I: Putting the “Operational Support” Back in Operational Support Airlift
Mike Pietrucha
and
Jeremy Renken
Roll for Initiative: NATO’s Navies Need a Wargaming Series
Jared Samuelson
Shapes, Part II: The Shape of Strategy
Mike Pietrucha
Mauritius Scores a Pyrrhic Victory in the Indian Ocean
Robert Thorpe
The Reaganesque Approach to Iran? Embrace the Moderates
Marik von Rennenkampff
F-15EX: The Strategic Blind Spot in the Air Force’s Fighter Debate
Mike Benitez
The Case for a Narrower View of ‘Empire’ in the Study of U.S. Foreign Relations
Joseph Stieb
Oil and the Future of U.S. Strategy in the Persian Gulf
Anand Toprani
The Marine Corps’ Evolving Character and Enduring Purpose
Gordon Emmanuel
and
Justin Gray
Bringing the Air Division Back to the Future
Mike Pietrucha
and
Jeremy Renken
Reassuring Allies and Strengthening Strategic Stability: An Approach to Nuclear Modernization for Democrats
Frank A. Rose
and
Benjamin Bahney
Discarding the Ptolemaic Model of the Marine Corps
Mark Nostro
A Vicious Cycle: The U.S. Military’s Maintenance and Modernization Problem
Brendan Stickles
Sealift is America’s Achilles Heel in the Age of Great Power Competition
Elee Wakim
In the Era of Electronic Warfare, Bring Back Pigeons
Frank Blazich
Welcome to Fight Club: Wargaming the Future
Benjamin Jensen
How the Marines will Help the U.S. Navy and America’s Allies Win the Great Indo-Pacific War of 2025
Scott Cuomo
,
Olivia Garard
,
Noah Spataro
, and
Jeff Cummings
Who is the Admiral Rickover of Naval Artificial Intelligence?
Connor S. McLemore
and
Eric Jimenez
The August War, Ten Years On: A Retrospective on the Russo-Georgian War
Michael Kofman
Is a New Russian Black Sea Fleet Coming? Or Is It Here?
Dmitry Gorenburg
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
The Dangers of Allowing U.S.-Philippine Defense Cooperation to Languish
Gregory Poling
and
Conor Cronin
When India’s Strategic Backyard Meets China’s Strategic Periphery: The View From Beijing
Yang Xiaoping
Trust, Troops, and Reapers: Getting ‘Drone’ Research Right
Cory T. Anderson
,
Dave Blair
,
Mike Byrnes
,
Joe Chapa
,
Amanda Collazzo
,
Scott Cuomo
,
Olivia Garard
,
Ariel M. Schuetz
, and
Scott VanOort
Air Force in Crisis, Part II: How Did We Get Here?
Mike Benitez
This Isn’t the Surprise You Were Expecting
Mark Cancian
Loyal Wingman, Flocking, and Swarming: New Models of Distributed Airpower
Daniel Wassmuth
and
Dave Blair
Defending the Mekong Delta: Tet and the Legacy of the Brown-Water Navy
John Sherwood
The Next New Military Specialty Should Be Software Developers
Jim Perkins
In Search of Accountability at Sea: The Precedents for the Navy’s Case Against Benson and Sanchez
Michael Junge
Why the Army Needs a Futures Command
Neil Hollenbeck
and
Benjamin Jensen
The Futures Problem: Why Big Organizations Have Problems Making Long-Term Forecasts and What to Do About It
Benjamin Jensen
and
Neil Hollenbeck
The 350-Ship Fantasy: It’s Time for the Navy to Think Radically About a Smaller Fleet
Steven Stashwick
Chinese Bomber Flights Around Taiwan: For What Purpose?
Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga
,
Derek Grossman
, and
Logan Ma
Five Facts About a Controversial Nuclear Weapon
Will Saetren
Five Lessons from Israel’s Wars in Gaza
Raphael S. Cohen
Getting the Pentagon’s Next National Defense Strategy Right
Shawn Brimley
Trump’s Next Task: Learning the Limits of Military Power
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
The Debate Over Indian Nuclear Strategy is Heating Up
Sameer Lalwani
and
Hannah Haegeland
A Comparative Guide to Russia’s Use of Force: Measure Twice, Invade Once
Michael Kofman
I Got a Story to Tell: Who Does What in National Security Policy?
Van Jackson
Re-Thinking the High-Low Mix, Part I: Origins Story
Scott Bledsoe
and
Mike Benitez
The Future of Air Superiority, Part IV: Autonomy, Survivability, and Getting to 2030
Brig. Gen. Alex Grynkewich
The Future of Air Superiority, Part III: Defeating A2/AD
Brig. Gen. Alex Grynkewich
Congress and the Navy: Forty Years of Dysfunction
Bryan McGrath
The Stage is Set for an Escalation: The Meaning of Syria’s Attack on Turkish Forces
Can Kasapoglu
Amphibious Operations in a Brave New World
Bryan Clark
and
Jesse Sloman
Five Reasons Washington Should Rethink Selling Warplanes to Nigeria
Matthew Page
The Chickens Are Ready to Eat: The Fatal Ambiguity of “Readiness”
Brad Carson
and
Morgan Plummer
U.S. Naval Forces Before and Beyond Battle
Janine Davidson
Restrained Strategy, Lower Military Budgets
Benjamin H. Friedman
West of Suez for the United Arab Emirates
Alex Mello
and
Michael Knights
After Brexit, a Bold Britain: A Game Plan for Remaking British Power
James Rogers
and
Philip Shetler-Jones
Beyond the Power of the Coin: The Three Currencies of Military Innovation
Brad DeWees
and
Enrique Oti
Avoiding the Charge of the Light Brigade Against China
Mike Pietrucha
How Good Are They? The Latest Insights into China’s Military Tech
Andrew Erickson
Successful Signaling at Scarborough Shoal?
Zack Cooper
and
Jake Douglas
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THE GREAT GREEN SEA CONTROL FLEET
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