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“Competition”
Lost in Translation: How A Premier Chinese Think Tank Views U.S.-Chinese Competition
Zenel Garcia
Forged in a Knife Fight: China’s Brutal Domestic AI Competition
David Lin
How the War with Iran Is Shaping U.S.-Chinese Competition
Zack Cooper
,
Yun Sun
,
Bonny Lin
,
Jacob Stokes
, and
Peter Harris
Ready for Regulation? A Check-in on AI Chips and Competition
Iraq’s Elections and U.S.-Iranian Competition
How Food Feeds Strategic Competition
Rosella Cappella Zielinski
and
Justin Gilpin
Small State, Big Stakes: The Maldives and Strategic Competition in the Indian Ocean
Andrea Malji
The Historic Origins of Sino-U.S. Competition
Madeline Field
With Friends Like These: World War II Advisory Efforts and the Origins of Sino-U.S. Competition
Tommy Jamison
What Cold War Competition in Guinea and Angola Can Teach Us About U.S. Influence in Western Africa
Erin O'Brien
Be Kennedy, Not Kissinger: What Cold War Competition in Guinea and Angola Can Teach Us About U.S. Influence in Western Africa
Nathan Heath
Sustainable Sustainment: Supplying War in the Age of Strategic Competition
Lt. Gen. Xavier Brunson
,
Christopher Boss
, and
Leo Blanken
Rewind and Reconnoiter: What is Europe’s Place in Sino-American Competition? with Luis Simón
Luis Simón
Mare Nostrum Revisited: Maritime Competition in the Mediterranean
Jeremy Stöhs
and
Sebastian Bruns
It’s Still the Indian Ocean: Parsing Sino-Indian Naval Competition Where It Counts
Prashant Hosur Suhas
and
Christopher K. Colley
Great Power Competition Will Drive Irregular Conflicts
Jacob Shapiro
and
Liam Collins
The Challenge of Tripolar Arms Competition: Lessons from the Washington Treaty
John D. Maurer
and
John H. Maurer
Paying the Costs of Competition
Christopher Preble
,
Zack Cooper
, and
Melanie Marlowe
Competition is Inevitable, War is Not: Using Games to Rethink the U.S.-Chinese Relationship
Benjamin Jensen
and
Mark Montgomery
Technology, Defense, And American-Chinese Competition
Christopher Preble
,
Zack Cooper
, and
Melanie Marlowe
Prescribing a New Paradigm for Cyber Competition
George Perkovich
Musings on Competition in the Pacific
Zack Cooper
,
Melanie Marlowe
, and
Christopher Preble
Great-Power Competition Comes for Latin America
Adam Isacson
Sources of the U.S.-Russian Competition
Shane Mason
What Old Mental Maps Reveal About Competition Today
Hal Brands
China’s Missile Silos and the Sino-Indian Nuclear Competition
Debak Das
Back to the Future: Getting Special Forces Ready for Great-Power Competition
Barnett S. Koven
and
Chris Mason
Metus Hostilis: Sallust, American Grand Strategy, and the Disciplining Effects of Peer Competition with China
Iskander Rehman
Economics, National Security, and the Competition with China
George Magnus
Thoughts on the Unfolding U.S.-Chinese Competition: Washington’s Policy Towards Beijing Enters Its Next Phase
Eric Sayers
What’s in a Name? Reimagining Irregular Warfare Activities for Competition
Kevin Bilms
Making Friends in Maker-Spaces: From Grassroots Innovation to Great-Power Competition
Leo Blanken
,
Romulo G. Dimayuga II
, and
Kristen Tsolis
The Modern Shetland Bus: The Lure of Covert Maritime Vessels for Great-Power Competition
Christopher D. Booth
Thinking in (Napoleonic) Times: Historical Warnings for an Era of Great-Power Competition
Alexandra Evans
Competition for the Generations: A Father and Daughter Reflect on U.S. Fights from Beirut to Baghdad
Jim Breckenridge
and
Katie Breckenridge Crombe
Intervention: Exploring Cyber Conflict and Competition
Robert Chesney
and
Max Smeets
Cyber Competition and Nonstate Actors in a Data-Rich World
Nina Kollars
COVID-19 and Economic Competition with China and Russia
Howard J. Shatz
The Measure of a Country: America’s Wonkiest Competition with China
William Morrissey
and
John Givens
The Great Fishing Competition
Lisa McKinnon Munde
The Pentagon Should Train for — and Not Just Talk About — Great-Power Competition
Tom Greenwood
and
Owen Daniels
Don’t Forget the Historical Context of Russo-Turkish Competition
Jeffrey Mankoff
Great Power, Great Responsibility: Global Competition in an Age of Uncertainty
Richard Fontaine
and
William Inboden
What Syria Ought to Teach America About Competition with Russia
Aaron Stein
Fear Not Technological Disengagement and Competition with China
Jack Bianchi
Community, Culture, and of course, Competition: What We Learned from What You Read in 2019
Rebecca Zimmerman
Geopolitics Redux: Explaining the Japan-Korea Dispute and Its Implications for Great Power Competition
Takuya Matsuda
and
Jaehan Park
Just Say No: The Pentagon Needs to Drop the Distractions and Move Great Power Competition Beyond Lip Service
Mackenzie Eaglen
Embrace Open-Source Military Research to Win the AI Competition
Jasmin Léveillé
WOTR Podcast: How is the Air Force Adapting to Great Power Competition?
Gen. David L. Goldfein
,
Stephen Bressett
,
Lynn Haack
, and
Ryan Evans
The Turkish Navy in an Era of Great Power Competition
Ryan Gingeras
From Athens to AI: The Return of History, the Revenge of Rivalry, and the Resurgence of Great Power Competition
C. Lee Shea
The Great Game Moves to Sea: Tripolar Competition in the Indian Ocean Region
Harry I. Hannah
What Is Europe’s Place in Sino-American Competition?
Luis Simón
Confusion in the Pivot: The Muddled Shift from Peripheral War to Great Power Competition
Benjamin Denison
Competition with China and the Future of the Asian International Order
David M. Edelstein
Sealift is America’s Achilles Heel in the Age of Great Power Competition
Elee Wakim
Horns of a Dilemma: Russia and the Great Power Competition
Phillip Breedlove
,
Evelyn Farkas
,
Daniel Fried
, and
Mary Neuburger
WOTR Podcast: Full Steam Ahead: Naval Competition with China
Jonathan Caverley
,
Fiona Cunningham
,
Michael O'Hara
,
Ketian Zhang
, and
Zack Cooper
Competition With China Isn’t a Strategy
Van Jackson
It is America’s Move in its Competition with China
Aaron Friedberg
Using Uncertainty as Leverage: India’s Security Competition with China
Arzan Tarapore
Raiding and International Brigandry: Russia’s Strategy for Great Power Competition
Michael Kofman
Cluster Munitions and Rearming for Great Power Competition
David Johnson
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
Searching for Strategy in Washington’s Competition with Russia
Michael Kofman
Saudi-Iranian Competition throughout the Middle East
Jason Fritz
Through a Periscope Darkly: The Nuclear Undersea Competition in Southern Asia Is Just Beginning
Diana Wueger
Managing Chaos in an Era of Great Power Competition
Austin Long
,
Linda Robinson
, and
Seth G. Jones
Southern Asia’s Escalating Strategic Competition
Sameer Lalwani
and
Travis Wheeler
Emergence: The Changing Character of Competition and Conflict
Benjamin Jensen
Welcome to the Competition
Nadia Schadlow
Let’s Talk About Great Power Competition with China
Van Jackson
The Second Coming of MIRVs: The Future of Strategic Arms Competition
Sameer Lalwani
and
Travis Wheeler
First World Problems: Defense Acquisition and the Competition for Ideas
Stephen Rodriguez
and
Don Mathis
History Isn’t a Playbook: Misguided Analogies and Great Power Competition
Ali Wyne
Where Does AI Escalation Come From? We Don’t Know. We Should Find Out.
Dustin League
and
William Dawson
Russia’s Road to El Dorado
Raphael Parens
European Resilience in Digital Infrastructure: The Changing Nature of State-Business Relations
Michiel Foulon
and
Ivan Zaccagnini
Why Are People Talking About a German Reset with Russia?
Ian Klinke
and
Jakub Eberle
The Educated Operator: Rethinking Lethality in Special Operations
Calvin Richards
The Divine Calculus of the Ukraine War’s End
Nicole Wiley
Stop Using AI. Start Commanding It
Cody Nichols
Pressure Points: Economic Strain, Allied Discord, and War Fatigue
WOTR Staff
War: Watt Is It Good For?
Harry Krejsa
and
Phoebe Benich
Managed Instability: Why the Wars Against Iran and Ukraine Can Go On and On and On…
Alex Kolbin
Proving the Negative: Three Warnings from Arms Control for the Age of AI
Mark Daley
AI and the Risks of Tearing Down an Old System
Jordan Kane
and
Hamza Chaudhry
Blanchard’s Lathe and the Long Arc of American Manufacturing
Aubry Eaton
The Commercial Space Race
Rebekah Reed
,
Kari A. Bingen
,
Katherine Melbourne
,
Lincoln Hines
, and
Jonathan Roll
Russia’s Blurry Line Between Science and Sabotage Beneath the Ocean’s Surface
Nurlan Aliyev
The Next School of War: Educating for Tomorrow’s Battlefield
Brig. Gen. Matthew Tracy
and
Benjamin Jensen
Putting Armageddon on Autopilot: How Artificial Intelligence Could Make Nuclear Threats More Effective
Joshua Schwartz
and
Michael Horowitz
Attacks, Deals, and Discontent
WOTR Staff
The Arsenal and the Statehouse: New Defense Firms, Venture Capital and State Industrial Policy
Joshua Alley
Why Trump’s Israel Normalization Demand May Kill the Saudi Nuclear Deal
H. A. Hellyer
How to Stop China from Freeriding on American AI
Ryan Fedasiuk
ASML’s Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography and the Limits of Reverse Engineering in China
Andrea Gilli
,
Mauro Gilli
,
Francesco Fimiani
, and
Nicolas Deriquehem
Key Areas Where Water Scarcity Intensifies Risks of Conflict
David Michel
,
Benjamin Gedan
,
Marcus King
, and
Beatrice Mosello
Zelensky’s Political Storm Starts to Clear
Nicole Wiley
Taiwan’s Tech Hurdles Threaten Military Capability and Potential Coalition Defense
Fanny Chao
and
Sam Bresnick
Why Norway and Finland Should Preserve Two of Europe’s Most Important Security Arrangements
Douglas Peifer
Learning from the ‘Voyage of the Damned’: The Making of a Russian Naval Disaster
Steven Wills
Before Q-Day: The Race to Quantum First
Mauritz Kop
and
Joe Federici
The Make-or-Buy Line has Moved
Jacob Green
Reading through the Lines of the FY2027 NDAA
Madeline Field
The Peace That Redistributes War: What Camp David Reveals About Lebanon and Iran
Ahmed Saber Abbas
Academia’s Critical Role in Developing an Economic Security Workforce
Jennifer Buss
Breaking America’s Promise to Pacific Island Veterans
Daniel Mandell
The Pentagon’s AI Strategy Has a Funding Problem
Adam Lackey
Sinews of War at Sea: The Armed Services Need a Common Watercraft Family
Peter Mitchell
and
John Curl
A Catholic Security Scholar’s Case for Responsible Military AI
Craig Douglas Albert
The Integrated Circuit and the Future of American AI Leadership
Sarah Kreps
The Ukrainian Push for Long-Term Strategic Planning
Nicole Wiley
The Defense Industrial Alliance Washington Is Throwing Away
Justin Massie
and
Srdjan Vucetic
The Art of Statecraft in an Age of Strategic Failure
Frank Hoffman
The U.S. Navy’s Subsea Rare Earth Vulnerability
Ryan Musto
Is There a Place in Ukrainian Media for War Skeptics?
Nicole Wiley
Too Big To Break Again: India, Italy, and the Defense Partnership That Almost Wasn’t
Chiara Boldrini
and
Gaurav Kumar
The World Cup: Players Vie for Goals and Countries for Influence
Robert Kelley
,
César Jiménez-Martínez
, and
Stephanie Carvin
China’s Farm Drones: A Trojan Horse Washington Overlooks
Emilian Kavalski
and
Claris Diaz
Can Bankova Muster Political Will to Make Institutional Reforms During War?
Nicole Wiley
How Japan Could Co-Produce the Navy’s Future Fleet
Jeff Kucik
,
Noah Moyer
, and
Darlene Onuorah
South Korea Could Build Nuclear Submarines, But It Shouldn’t
Wilson Grossman-Trawick
The Gulf Arab States Need a Shield Built for Limited Trust
Mohammed Alotaibi
Strike, Counterstrike, Repeat
WOTR Staff
Wargaming for Improved Acquisition: What Does It Take?
C. Travis Reese
The Chain of Peace: Do Supply Chain Chokepoints Deter War?
Phuong Pham
and
Melle Scholten
Is Skepticism Ukraine’s Foreign Policy Playbook?
Nicole Wiley
The Pentagon’s AI Edge Is Being Distilled Away
Sebastian Elbaum
After the Invasion: China Considers the Problem of Ruling Taiwan
Jude Blanchette
and
Richard McGregor
Will China and the United States Pursue Strategic Stability?
Michael D. Swaine
Does the Quad Still Matter?
Lisa Curtis
,
Sameer Lalwani
,
Courtney Stewart
, and
William Chou
What Everyone is Missing About North Korea’s Reunification Strategy
Hyunseung Lee
The Road to Space Runs through the Poles
Rebecca Pincus
and
David Marsh
Leading in the Dark: How Submarine Commanders Think Under Uncertainty
Paulo Frade
Europe’s Dangerous Hunger Games for American Troops
Vytautas Leškevičius
Machine Overmatch: What Salt Typhoon Reveals About China’s Data-Centric Intelligence Strategy
Ashley Ruiz
The Recognition Question: Somaliland, Israeli Security Geometry, and the Red Sea Power Struggle
Iqra Salah
and
Halkano Boru
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
The Missing Navies: The Hormuz Crisis and the Limits of America’s Indo-Pacific Partnerships
Jean-Loup Samaan
Pakistan’s New Logic of Limited War May Not Keep War Limited
Muhammad Faisal
,
Sahar Khan
, and
Haleema Saadia
Does OPEC Still Matter?
Kristian Coates Ulrichsen
,
Kate Dourian
,
Giorgio Cafiero
, and
Rachel Ziemba
Closing the Gap? Italy Sets New Rules for Its First National Security Strategy Amidst Old Obstacles
Lorenzo Termine
,
Gabriele Natalizia
, and
Laura Donnini
What’s Going On In Iran?
WOTR Staff
The Pentagon Needs a Playbook for Munitions Surge Production
Bryce Loidolt
The Cop on the Corner Is Our First Line of Defense: Local Police and the Surveillance Detection Gap
Matt White
Acquisition Reform Needs Its Own Wargame
Stephen Bittner
Abandoned and Ungoverned: Lebanon’s Palestinian and Syrian Populations and the Emerging Radicalization Landscape
Jack Schwartz
Looking at Europe With a Sharper Eye
Nicole Wiley
Cheap Missiles, Not Drones, Will Win the Next Air War
Vitaliy Goncharuk
Rethinking Corporate Risk and Alignment in an Era of Economic Statecraft
Gen. (ret.) Timothy Ray
Western Withdrawal, Jihadist Expansion: How the Sahel Became Ground Zero for Global Terrorism
James Paterson
Beijing’s United Front and the Quiet Transfer of Western Technology
Cheryl Yu
Airwaves of Power: Why the Pentagon Should Shift to a Commercial-First Spectrum Model
Roslyn Layton
Presence or Capacity? The Coast Guard Can Have Both Through Small Boat Stations
Craig Johnson
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
Why Iran Metabolizes the Pressure that Broke Venezuela
Rashed M. Aba-namay
The United States Is Repeating Its Silicon Mistake with Gallium Nitride
Pradyot Yadav
When Identity Means Everything
Nicole Wiley
The End of Managed Escalation in the Gulf
Robert Mason
and
Rikard Jalkebro
Operationalizing Economic Statecraft: A New Imperative for the Pentagon
Anita Kellogg
Silent Killers, Not Signals: Why States Use Poison in Assassinations
Naomi Rio
and
Glenn Cross
Strategy Without Hubris: How China Rose by Managing America’s Reaction
Luis Simón
Bankova, Budapest, and Bunnies
Nicole Wiley
A Closed Strait of Hormuz Risks a Global Food Security Crisis
Morgan D. Bazilian
,
Gabriel Collins
, and
Jahara Matisek
What is Strategic Rivalry? Why Should We Care?
Antulio J. Echevarria
How NATO’s Air Defense Future Is Unfolding
Shaan Shaikh
The Age of Unlearning: How Democracies Lost Their Grip on Strategic Time
Beniamino Irdi
Sharpening Signals and Reducing Noise for Better Defense Budgets
Mark Mitchum
The Limits of Trump’s Regime Capture Strategy from Venezuela to Cuba
Charles Larratt-Smith
A 250-Year Arsenal of Innovation: A Call for Articles on American Defense Technologies
Cogs of War Staff
The Iran War and the Energy Lesson We Failed to Learn
Emily Holland
The Arsenal as the Battlefield: The War on Iran and the Return of Counter-Industrial Targeting
Tyler Hacker
,
Greg Malandrino
, and
Evan Braden Montgomery
Successes and Setbacks
Nicole Wiley
Every Soldier a Software Builder: Governing the Army’s New Digital Workforce
Anthony A. Joyce
A Torpedo in the Trade Lanes: Naval Warfare Returns to the Indo-Pacific
Jennifer Parker
Five Wargames Every Force Design Process Needs
Nathaniel Ambler
,
Maegen Nix
, and
Travis Reese
Follow the Money: Finance and the Future of Allied Economic Statecraft
Georgie Skipper
The Battlefield is the Next Betting Market
Jonathan Walberg
Trump’s Visit to China Won’t Fix Much, If It Even Happens
Daniel Rechtschaffen
Takeaways from China’s National People’s Congress Meeting
Ling Chen
,
Jaehwan Lim
,
Shanshan Mei
, and
Neil Thomas
How Does the Iran War Affect China’s Energy Security?
Yun Sun
The Danger of Vibe Patriotism in Defense Tech
Ben Buchheim-Jurisson
Southeast Asia’s Nuclear Blind Spot: Latent Pathways and Explicit Pressures
Hely Desai
Military Senior Service Colleges Require Reform, But There Sure Are Some Bad Ideas Out There
Bradford T. Duplessis
Testing Denial: The Philippine Alliance in America’s First Island Chain Strategy
Patrick Cronin
and
Nathaniel Uy
Gaza and the Logic of High-Intensity Urban Warfare
Danny Orbach
,
Jonathan Boxman
,
Yagil Henkin
, and
Jonathan Braverman
AI-Ready Biodata Is America’s Next Strategic Infrastructure
Michelle Holko
,
John Wilbanks
, and
Sam Howell
AI and the New Blueprint of Terrorism
Brian Fishman
As War With Iran Rages, the Axis of Resistance is in Survival Mode
Renad Mansour
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
Missed Signals and Middle East Shockwaves
Nicole Wiley
Washington Built the AI Infrastructure AUKUS Needs — Then Locked Allies Out
Javaid Iqbal Sofi
The Deluge, the Paper Cup, and Washington’s Lack of Urgency on Guam
Michael W. Cruz
Arctic Hot Takes Need a Cold Reality Check
Ryan Burke
The Transatlantic Defense Business Politics Can’t Break
Wendy R. Anderson
and
Julianne Smith
Using the 2026 Winter Olympics to Build Soft Power
Sim Sim Wissgott
,
Robert Kelley
, and
Susan Brownell
Economic Statecraft and the Federal Institutional Architecture
William Norris
Iran and the Gulf: Why Hedging Is No Longer Enough
Bader Al-Saif
and
Sanam Vakil
How Are Iran’s Proxies Doing Amidst a Weakened Regime?
Farzin Zandi
Recalibrating U.S. Intelligence Strategy for an Uncertain Global Order
Alexander Bick
and
Philip Potter
Panama’s Hidden Chokepoint: Tocumen and the Convergence of Mobility Power
Ron MacCammon
The Full Spectrum of Victory
Nicole Wiley
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
Will These Four Defense Innovation Reforms Improve Industry’s Lot?
Madeline Field
Gilded Capability: Overinvestment and the Survivability Paradox
Trevor Phillips-Levine
,
Andrew Tenbusch
, and
Walker Mills
Why Russia’s Export Failures Matter For India
Vasabjit Banerjee
and
Benjamin Tkach
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
The Middle East’s Westphalian Moment? From Chaos to Realism
Ali Murat Kursun
Iran After the Supreme Leader
Dokhi Fassihian
Risk, Order, and Power: The Saudi-Emirati Divergence
H. A. Hellyer
Turkey’s Drone Industry at a Strategic Crossroads
Doga Eralp
Is America’s Cyber Weakness Self-Inflicted?
Shaoyu Yuan
TikTok, Algorithmic Emotion, and the New Propaganda Battlefield
Michael Morgan
The Primes Aren’t the Real Bottleneck in U.S. Weapons Production
Menny Shalom
Indonesia’s One Million Soldiers Questions
Muhammad Fauzan Malufti
The Organic Industrial Base and the Risks of Competing Against Ourselves
Kevin Consedine
Trump, Uncertainty, and China’s Anti-Alliance Strategy
Olivia Cheung
,
Luis Simón
, and
Giulia Tercovich
Greenland Is Strategic. Annexation Is Not
Spenser A. Warren
The Front Door Problem in National Security Space
Isobel Porteous
What’s Going On in Venezuela?
Joseph Wehmeyer
The New Food Powers: How China and Russia Are Filling America’s Retreat
Fenja Tramsen
Can the 15th Five-Year Plan Fix the People’s Liberation Army’s Procurement Bottlenecks?
Jessica C. Liao
and
Joshua Arostegui
Why the U.S. Navy Doesn’t Build Battleships Anymore
Trent Hone
Containing the Threat of Containerized Missiles
Zane Tremmel
The Burn and the Choke: Why Semiconductor Controls Will Outlast China’s Rare Earth Weapon
Alvin Camba
The Indispensable Adversary: India’s Approach to China
Shantanu Roy-Chaudhury
The Last Gasp of Peace: The Christmas Truce of 1914 and the Modern Profession of Arms
Joseph D. Eanett
An Industry Guide to the FY2026 NDAA
Madeline Field
At a Glance: American Rockets
Cogs of War Staff
The Genesis Mission and Quantum Technologies
Prineha Narang
and
Joshua Levine
Anchoring Intelligence: Ground Truth in an Age of Synthetic Deception
Nicholas Krohley
Pros and Cons in the National Security Strategy
Kori Schake
,
Daniel DePetris
,
Rebecca Lissner
, and
Frank Hoffman
Hybrid Manufacturing: The Case for Agile Factories
John Borrego
Chasing True AI Autonomy: From Legacy Mindsets to Battlefield Dominance
Vitaliy Goncharuk
Decline of Operational Art: The Story of A Strategic China Wargame
Marco Lyons
Grounded by Red Ink: The Hidden Chokepoint in U.S. Air Force Readiness
Austin A. Gruber
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
America First, Europe Fourth
Leonard A. Schütte
The Mighty Middle Powers
Tim Sweijs
Operating AI in the Gray Zone: Drawing Clear Lines Before They Blur
Morgan Plummer
The Soldier in the Illiberal State is a Professional Dead End
Carrie Lee
The 2025 War on the Rocks Holiday Reading List
WOTR Staff
Thinking the Thinkable on an AI Market Correction
Joseph Webster
Washington’s Risky Bet on Pakistan and the F-16
Sajjan M. Gohel
How Washington Is Losing the AI Race No One Is Tracking
Javaid Iqbal Sofi
The Case for An Allied Competitive Strategy
Arjun Akwei
and
Jinwan Park
The White House Risks Squandering Its Own AI Leadership
Ryan Fedasiuk
How the Frontier Spirit and the Outback Temperament Collide in AUKUS
Ryan Shaw
Ghosts of the Road: What the Failed War on IEDs Means for Drones
Andrew Tenbusch
and
Trevor Phillips-Levine
How South Korea Can Help the U.S. Navy Stay Afloat in the Pacific
Jeff Kucik
A Bletchley Park for the Quantum Age
Mauritz Kop
Racing Against Time: Realizing a True Defense Industrial Enterprise
Gen. (ret.) CQ Brown, Jr.
Warfighters, Not Engineers, Decide What AI Can Be Trusted
Morgan Plummer
The Coming Wave: Chinese Doctrine on the Tabletop?
Cornell Fuka
A Clean Sheet Redesign of the Small Business Innovation Research Program
John Ferry
and
Joel Graley
Could Beijing’s Security Strategy in Africa Backfire?
Jonathan Ping
and
Joel Odota
Will Israel’s Algorithmic Counter-Insurgency Proliferate to the West?
Muhanad Seloom
The Global Reach of the War in Ukraine
Sergey Radchenko
,
Jonathan Corrado
,
Hanna Notte
,
Eric Watkins
, and
Christopher Hernandez-Roy
Strategy or Spectacle in South America?
J. William DeMarco
The Leak That Targeted the Leakers
Andrew Horton
The Things that Bedevil U.S. Cyber Power
Jeffrey Edwards
Two Dangerous Assumptions in U.S. Defense Planning and How to Fix Them
Noel Williams
America’s Quantum Manufacturing Moment
Prineha Narang
and
Joshua Levine
Blinding First, Striking Fast: Why the Marine Corps Needs Information Groups
Benjamin Jensen
and
Ian Fletcher
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
When Ideology Writes the Check: Washington’s Risky Bet on Argentina
Benjamin Gedan
Resilience in American Strategy Is More Important Than Ever
Erica Lonergan
Silicon Statecraft: How U.S.-Gulf AI Deals Project Power
Kody McKinley
Sequencing Over Simultaneity: How to Avert a Two-Front War
Nick Danby
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
South Korea Should Build Out a Reconnaissance Satellite Ecosystem
Chang-young Lee
Rockets, Politics, and Power: A Conversation with Tory Bruno of ULA
Tory Bruno
and
Ryan Evans
Washington’s Ironclad Commitments Are Rusting in the Indo-Pacific
Gregory H. Winger
,
Miguel Alberto Gomez
, and
Lauren Sukin
Fort Drum Shows How States Can Push Back on China’s Maritime Aggression
Ron J. Lienhardt
The Limits of Rapprochement Between India and China
Chiara Boldrini
Ghost Fleet, Ten Years Later: An Interview with P.W. Singer and August Cole
Peter W. Singer
and
August Cole
Ports, Politics, and Power: The Messy Reality of China’s Overseas Port Investments
Zenel Garcia
and
Alexandra Meise
Iraq’s 2025 Election: A Recalibration of Power, Not a Rupture of the Status Quo
Yasir Kuoti
and
Ali Taher al-Hamoud
Think Medium: The Case for “Minilateralism” to Boost Naval Shipbuilding
Nicolas Jouan
The Geopolitics of Drone Exports
Pinar Tank
,
Matthew P. Funaiole
,
Stacie Pettyjohn
, and
Nir Reuven
Data Centers on the 21st Century Battlefield
Alex Rough
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
Tanks, Tech, and Tungsten: The Strategic Mineral Alliance the West Needs
Fabian E. Villalobos
,
Khrystyna Holynska
, and
Peter Handley
Swap Around and Find Out: The New Rules of International Digital Economic Warfare
Adam Zarazinski
and
Bruno Faviero
China’s Soft Power Tools and Whether They Work
Owen Daniels
,
Maria Repnikova
,
Jonathan Sullivan
,
Yun Sun
, and
Gary Rawnsley
Ukraine Isn’t the Model for Winning the Innovation War
Vitaliy Goncharuk
The Marine Corps Americans Want Can’t Be Derailed by a Fake Crisis
Ryan Evans
High-Risk AI Models Need Military-Grade Security
Jason Ross Arnold
Is Warfare Becoming More Performative?
Jordan Spector
Spain’s Huawei Deal Is a Wake-Up Call for U.S. Federal Procurement Reform
Daria Bahrami
Sprinters, Marathoners & Skeptics on the Future of AI & Power
Joseph Webster
The Indo-Pacific Chooses Options, Not Sides
Vu Lam
The United States Should Act Now to Mitigate Conflict Escalation on the Moon
Mariel Borowitz
,
Lincoln Hines
, and
Lawrence Rubin
Eastern Stars Rising: The Rise of China’s Commercial Space Industry
Ryan Nelson
,
Taylor Rhoten
, and
Brian MacCarthy
Titans, Trailblazers, and Translators: Forging a Unified Defense Industrial Paradigm
Austin Gray
and
Stephen Rodriguez
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
South Korea’s New Naval Base Throws a Jab, But Should Train for a Haymaker
Joshua NamTae Park
The State of Russian Influence in the Middle East
Anna Borshchevskaya
,
Yevgeniya Gaber
,
Nicole Grajewski
,
Giorgio Cafiero
, and
Daniel Rakov
The Fragility of U.S. Spacepower in a Multipolar World
Nazmelis Zengin
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
Beijing’s Push for a Sino-Centric Asia is Cracking Southeast Asia’s Hedging Game
Jessica C. Liao
and
Lucas Myers
Marine Force Design Is Four Decades in the Making
Ryan Pallas
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
We Need a Marine Corps, Part III: A Corps Recentered
Ben Connable
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
We Need a Marine Corps, Part II: A Corps Confounded
Ben Connable
Making Professional Military Education More Agile in the Air Force
Lt. Gen. Andrea Tullos
and
Ryan Evans
Steps Toward Golden Dome
Kari A. Bingen
,
Stephanie Stapleton
,
Michael O’Hanlon
, and
Shaan Shaikh
How the Army Is Putting the Commander Back in Command and Control
Maj. Gen. Patrick Ellis
Too Much Tech Can Ruin Wargames
Jonathan Compton
,
Joseph Mroszczyk
, and
Matthew Tattar
We Need a Marine Corps, Part I: A Corps in Crisis
Ben Connable
Does America’s Indo-Pacific Strategy Still Run Through Ukraine?
Luis Simón
If America Abandons Europe, Will the Continent Fragment or Unify?
Ali Mammadov
Coding Defense Solutions on the Fly with AI
Sean Lavelle
Will China Force a Rethink of Biological Warfare?
Al Mauroni
and
Glenn Cross
Notes from History for Surviving the Trade War
Francine McKenzie
Giants and the Myth of America’s New Defense Consolidation
Dustin Walker
The Future of Africa Command
Michael Rubin
,
Maureen Farrell
,
Jennifer Kavanagh
, and
Benjamin Friedman
AUKUS Pillar II Is Failing in Its Mission
Peter Dean
and
Alice Nason
Women in the Ranks, but Not in the Clear
M. Alejandra Parra-Orlandoni
The Value of an Asian Tinder Box
Julian Spencer-Churchill
Russia Can Afford to Take a Beating in Ukraine
Collin Meisel
and
Mathew Burrows
How America’s Special Operators are Preparing for a High-Tech Future
Gen. Frank Donovan
and
Ryan Evans
Russia and China in Central Asia
Janko Šćepanović
Rethinking Rome’s “Most Reluctant” Emperor
Lindsay Powell
Combatant Commands as Customers?
Justin Johnson
Crucibles, Not Comfort, Shape Future Military Leaders
J. William DeMarco
The Army’s Upcoming Transformation, with Secretary Driscoll and Gen. George
Secretary of the Army Daniel Driscoll
,
Gen. Randy George
, and
Ryan Evans
Print, Crash, and Reprint: How the Air Force Should Rethink Small Drones
Dustin Thomas
,
Jordan Atkins
, and
Peter Dyrud
Another Last Supper and a New Era of Defense Giants
Nicholas Hooper
Deep Rivalry or Elite Obsession? Washington’s Search for Dominance Over China
Sam Roggeveen
The Ides of November: Navigating the Shifting Sands of Iraq’s 2025 Electoral Landscape
Inna Rudolf
and
Douglas A. Ollivant
Deals, Schemes, and Plots
WOTR Staff
Rewind and Reconnoiter: The Bay of Bengal as a Test Case for a Multi-Polar World
Anu Anwar
Modernization as Readiness in the U.S. Marine Corps
Keenan Chirhart
and
Scott Humr
Realizing America’s Drone Revolution
Nathan Ecelbarger
The Middle East’s AI Warfare Laboratory
Frederic Wehrey
and
Andrew Bonney
Agentic Warfare Is Here. Will America Be the First Mover?
Benjamin Jensen
,
Dan Tadross
, and
Matthew Strohmeyer
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
Thinking Through Deception on the Electromagnetic Spectrum
Michael Posey
and
David Zesinger
Mozambique’s Quiet Threat to Regional Stability and U.S. Interests
Emilia Columbo
and
Mike Brodo
In Brief: Balancing Speed and Security in Defense Communications
Mackenzie Eaglen
,
Emerson T. Brooking
, and
Erik Schuh
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
Beyond Comparisons: India’s Strategic Reckoning amid China’s Military Modernization
Hely Desai
I Loved Being a Soldier
Gen. Charles Jacoby
Greenland’s Military Possibilities for the United States
Aaron Brady
Peering into the Future of Artificial Intelligence in the Military Classroom
James Lacey
A Skills Shortage Plagues British Defense
Calvin Bailey, MP
Rewind and Reconnoiter: A Continent-Wide Blind Spot Revisited
Joe Bruhl
The South Pacific Is the New Frontline in the Rivalry with China
Christopher K. Colley
How the Trump Administration Can Limit China’s Arms Exports
Grant Rumley
Europe, Deterrence, and Long-Range Strike
Lotje Boswinkel
Amplifiers and Dampeners of Cyber Escalation
Jason Healey
and
Virpratap Vikram Singh
Rewind & Reconnoiter: Re-Examining the Sino-Russian Relationship
Yun Sun
Exposing China’s Legal Preparations for a Taiwan Invasion
Cheng Deng Feng
and
Tim Boyle
Below-the-Threshold Deterrence, Philippine Style
Kurtis H. Simpson
,
Raphael Racicot
, and
Jacob Benjamin
What Makes Air Force Reconnaissance “Special”?
John Long
and
Leandros Fugate
From Strategy to Action: Rethinking How the State Department Works
Peter Lohman
and
Dan Spokojny
China’s Ties with North Korea Are in a Ditch, and Therein Lies Opportunity
Choong-Koo Lee
How to Get the Most Out of the U.S.-Indian Defense Partnership
Sameer Lalwani
and
Vikram J. Singh
Trump Needs a Plan on Ukraine’s Buried Treasure
J.C. Ellis
With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: How to Make Big Tech Accountable for its Global Influence
Joseph Jarnecki
and
Gareth Mott
In Brief: Trump Executive Orders and What They Mean for National Security
Ankit Panda
,
Emma Ashford
,
Whitney McNamara
, and
Melanie Marlowe
In Brief: Is China or the United States Winning the Race in AI Innovation?
Vivek Chilukuri
,
Zach Beecher
,
Melanie Sisson
, and
Jeffrey Ding
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
How Iran Lost Before It Lost: The Roll Back of Its Gray Zone Strategy
Farzin Zandi
Why Britain Should Scupper the Chagos Islands Deal
Marcus Solarz Hendriks
In Brief: How Key European States Will Approach Ukraine in 2025
Emma Salisbury
,
Gesine Weber
,
Roderick Parkes
, and
Monika Sus
Trump’s Panamanian Aspirations Are a Canal to Nowhere
Richard Sanders
U.S. Officials Need to Explain the Stakes in Taiwan
Jake Yeager
The Long Shadow of the Ladakh Crisis
Arzan Tarapore
A Blueprint for Digital Transformation at the Department of Defense
Radha Iyengar Plumb
The Battle for Brilliant Minds: From the Nuclear Age to AI
Iskander Rehman
In Brief: How Long Until Defense Tech Limited Partners See Returns?
Lauren Bedula
,
Jeff Crusey
, and
Stephen Rodriguez
The Mayhem of Russia’s “Research” Fleet
Nurlan Aliyev
The Cost of Sovereignty? The Future of Britain’s Defense Industrial Base
William Reynolds
Rewind and Reconnoiter: Civic Education and Military Cohesion
Walter Haynes
Dual-Use Is a Strategy, Not a Category (Nor a Trap)
Gene Keselman
and
Fiona Murray
The Last Gasp of Peace: The Christmas Truce of 1914 and the Modern Profession of Arms
Joseph D. Eanett
What the Pentagon’s New Report on Chinese Military Power Reveals About Capabilities, Context, and Consequences
Andrew Erickson
Stealth and Scale: Quality, Quantity, and Modern Military Power
Michael Horowitz
and
Joshua Schwartz
Alliance Networking in Europe and the Indo-Pacific
Lotje Boswinkel
,
Luis Simón
,
Alexander Lanoszka
, and
Hugo Meijer
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
In Brief: A Thaw in Icy Relations Between India and China?
Akriti Vasudeva
,
Yun Sun
, and
Sameer Lalwani
Archipelago of Resistance: The Philippines Is Rising to Meet the China Threat, But It Has a Crucial Year Ahead
Haroro J. Ingram
Empowering the Combatant Commands Is Critical for the Future Fight
Maj. Gen. Peter Andrysiak
and
Bryan Quinn
Rewind and Reconnoiter: Underestimating the Enemy
Caesar Nafrada
and
Joseph Caddell
Seizing the Moment: Armenia and Azerbaijan at a Crossroads
Nigar Göksel
and
Philip Gamaghelyan
America is Not Prepared for a Protracted War
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Understanding the Syrian Civil War: A Guide From War on the Rocks
Abigail Taylor
The Adversarial
WOTR Staff
In Brief: Biden’s Last Chance at Foreign Policy Moves
Robert Manning
,
Yun Sun
,
Jeremy Shapiro
, and
Zaha Hassan
This is Not the Status Quo You’re Looking For
Lauren Dickey
and
Matthew Kent
The Implications of a Second Trump Presidency for Europe’s Defense-Industrial Efforts
Lucas F. Hellemeier
Beyond TikTok — The National Security Risks of Chinese Agricultural Drones
Claris Diaz
and
Emilian Kavalski
How to Stop the United States and China from Sliding into War
Michael D. Swaine
China Is Off the Fence in Myanmar
Lucas Myers
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
A New National Security Strategy for the Trump Administration
Christopher Preble
,
Zack Cooper
, and
Melanie Marlowe
Turkey, Greece, and Trump
Ryan Gingeras
American Defense Planning in the Shadow of Protracted War
Evan Braden Montgomery
and
Julian Ouellet
The Adversarial: Maximum Pressure
WOTR Staff
I Blame the Navy’s Strategic Woes on the Chiefs of Naval Operations
Bruce Stubbs
Balancing Risk: Ensuring the Safety of U.S. Peacekeepers in U.N. Missions
Christian Werner
Rewind and Reconnoiter: Washington’s Role in Fighting Terrorism in Africa
Michael Shurkin
and
Aneliese Bernard
Can the United Kingdom and France Team Up in the Third Nuclear Age?
Paul Cormarie
Attrition’s Apostle? Reading Vegetius in an Age of Protracted Warfare
Iskander Rehman
Lousy Deterrence Options on the Korean Peninsula
Ian Bowers
and
Henrik Stålhane Hiim
Will China Intervene Directly to Protect its Investments in Africa?
Jonathan Ping
and
Joel Odota
Rewind and Reconnoiter: The Arctic Threat That Must Not be Named
Sharon E Burke
How Australia and South Korea Are Recrafting Their Relationship and Fortifying the Indo-Pacific
Arius M. Derr
and
Hannah Cho
Do We Need a Hero? Building Heritage and Culture in the U.S. Space Force
Nicholas Mahanic
In Brief: The Rise of “Non-Traditional” Defense Companies
Jacqueline Tame
,
Shyam Sankar
,
Justin Johnson
,
Doug Berenson
,
Stephen Rodriguez
, and
Matt Byington
Harnessing the Power of the E.U.-NATO Partnership
Monika Sus
and
Dominik Jankowski
Human Geography Is Mission-Critical
Judd Devermont
Cyber Transparency and the Restoration of U.S.-Russian Strategic Stability
Hunter Behrens
After Prigozhin, the Wagner Group’s Enduring Impact
Jack Margolin
Overcoming Goliath: How the Defense Establishment Can Maximize Allied Innovation
Nick Iorio
and
Scott DeWitt
China, Clean Technologies, and National Security
Joshua Busby
,
Morgan Bazilian
, and
Emily Holland
Reflections on Software Lock-In at the Defense Department
Shyam Sankar
and
Bryon Kroger
Rewind and Reconnoiter: China’s Palace Diplomacy in Africa with Joshua Meservey
Joshua Meservey
Is Germany Ready to Take Space Seriously? Requirements for Germany’s First Space Security Strategy
Andrea Rotter
Rewind and Reconnoiter: Does America Need an Africa Strategy? with Sam Wilkins
Sam Wilkins
In Brief: Is the United States Preparing for War with China?
Gregory Poling
,
Kristen Gunness
,
Collin Meisel
, and
Eric Robinson
From World Champions to State Assets: The Outsized Impact of a Few Chinese Hackers
Eugenio Benincasa
China’s Defense Spending: The $700 Billion Distraction
M. Taylor Fravel
,
George Gilboy
, and
Eric Heginbotham
What is an Italian Carrier Strike Group Doing in the Indo-Pacific?
Alessio Patalano
How to Boil a Frog: The Dangers of Downsizing in the U.S. Military
Ryan Pallas
In Brief: The Ukrainian Operation Into Kursk
Oxana Shevel
,
Mark Galeotti
,
Olga Oliker
,
Michael A. Reynolds
,
Sam Bendett
, and
Vera Mironova
South Korea’s Growing Role as a Major Arms Exporter: Future Prospects in Latin America
Hoshik Nam
and
Wilder Alejandro Sánchez
Rethinking the Role of a Systems Integrator for Artificial Intelligence
Jim Rebesco
and
Anthony Manganiello
Mid-Afternoon Map: Playing 3D Backgammon with Putin
Nick Danforth
In Brief: Japan’s Defense Posture
Zack Cooper
,
Sheila Smith
,
Ryan Ashley
, and
Kei Koga
China’s Global Public Opinion War with the United States and the West
Heidi Holz
Without Talent Agility, America May Lose
Jim Perkins
and
Mike McGinley
Beyond Fusion: Preparing for Systems Rivalry with China
Liza Tobin
,
Addis Goldman
, and
Katherine Kurata
Introducing our new editor-in-chief, Sheena Chestnut Greitens
Sheena Chestnut Greitens
and
Ryan Evans
“Shadow Reserves”: China’s Key to Parry U.S. Financial Sanctions
Christopher Vassallo
Rewind and Reconnoiter: What the History of Modern Conquest Tells Us About China and India’s Border Crisis with Dan Altman
Dan Altman
NATO Missed a Chance to Transform Itself
Max Bergmann
What Body Composition Policies Show — and Hide — About Obesity in the Military
Courtney Manning
Keeping the “Best and Brightest” Junior Officers in the U.S. Military
Everett S. P. Spain
Turbulence Ahead: The Maintenance Workforce Dilemma Threatening the Future of Airpower
Joshua Morales
The Puzzle of Chinese Escalation vs Restraint in the South China Sea
Andrew Taffer
Strategic Outpost’s 2024 Summer Vacation Reading List
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Integrating Maritime Statecraft and Strategy
BJ Armstrong
In Brief: NATO at 75
Anna Dowd
,
Franz-Stefan Gady
,
Michal Onderco
, and
Minna Ålander
The Adversarial
WOTR Staff
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
Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in the Marine Corps
Will McGee
Iraq and America at Sudani’s Midpoint
Douglas A. Ollivant
China’s New Info Warriors: The Information Support Force Emerges
Joel Wuthnow
Batteries as a Military Enabler
Joseph Webster
The South China Sea Dog that Hasn’t Barked … Yet
Zack Cooper
and
Gregory Poling
Iran’s Election Circus Has Just Begun
Saeid Golkar
and
Kasra Aarabi
The Adversarial
WOTR Staff
On the Record with Saddam
Michael P. Brill
Power and Tension: The Cyber Security Problems of Military Electrification
Kristen Csenkey
and
Alexis Rapin
Why Washington Failed in Niger
Nathaniel Powell
Why Is the North Korea Problem So Hard to Solve?
Jonathan Corrado
and
Rachel Minyoung Lee
Britain’s Strange Defeat: The 1941 Fall of Crete and Its Lessons for Taiwan
Iskander Rehman
Developing an Economic Security Agenda for NATO
Anna M. Dowd
and
Dominik Jankowski
The Inevitable Role of Clans in Post-Conflict Stabilization in Gaza
Yaniv Voller
On China: To Win or Not To Win
Christopher Preble
,
Zack Cooper
, and
Melanie Marlowe
A Conversation with Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall
Frank Kendall
and
Ryan Evans
The Case for a Prospective U.S. Cyber Force
Erica Lonergan
,
Todd Arnold
, and
Nick Starck
What Exactly Are We Doing?
Francis J. Gavin
Gulf of Guinea Maritime Security: Lessons, Latency, and Law Enforcement
Max Williams
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
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
In Brief: The U.S.-Chinese Relationship
Collin Meisel
,
Mike Studeman
,
Yun Sun
, and
Rorry Daniels
German Atomwaffen and the Superweapon Trap
Gustav Meibauer
and
Christopher David LaRoche
The Drone Dilemma and the U.S. Air Force
Clifford Lucas
Give France Credit for Its Strategic Change
Gesine Weber
Small Ocean, Big Hype: Arctic Myths and Realities
Rebecca Pincus
Why Increasing the Value of Defense Primes Is Good for the Country
Shyam Sankar
Uncrewed but Confident: Forging New Rules of the Road to Avoid Accidental Escalation
Thomas Shugart
Haiti: A Best-Case Scenario
Haleigh Bartos
,
John Chin
, and
Tyler Ashner
The Forgotten Part of the Contest: Army Logistics in the Pacific
Carmelia Scott-Skillern
and
Peter Singer
Forging the Force: A Joint Task Force in the Indo-Pacific
Zach Ota
Rewind and Reconnoiter: “Recalculating Route”: A Realistic Risk Assessment for GPS with Brandon Davenport and Rich Ganske
Brandon Davenport
and
Rich Ganske
A More Comprehensive Plan to Push Back Against China’s Fishing Practices
Michael E. Clark
Solving the Houthi Threat to Freedom of Navigation
Allison Minor
China Is Battening Down for the Gathering Storm over Taiwan
Mike Studeman
The Rising Ransomware Tide, Chinese Spy Cranes, and the Biden Executive Order on Maritime Cyber Security
Nina Kollars
,
Blake Benson
, and
Austin Reid
Houthi Attacks in the Red Sea: A New Twist on the Jeune École?
Kevin McCranie
Call in the Coast Guard: How Maritime Law Enforcement Can Combat China’s Gray-Zone Aggression
Eric Cooper
Lessons From Gaza’s Most Vulnerable: Understanding Civilian Protection in Wartime
Austin Knuppe
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
America’s Report Card in Southeast Asia
Christopher Preble
,
Zack Cooper
, and
Melanie Marlowe
Don’t Count on Us: Canada’s Military Unreadiness
Philippe Lagassé
and
Justin Massie
Leadership, Culture, and the Military Cyber Workforce
Nicholas Romanow
Russian Threat Perception and Nuclear Strategy in its Plans for War with China
John Stanko
and
Spenser Warren
From ‘War on the Rocks’ to ‘AI on the Rocks’: A New Chapter for an Ambitious Project
WOTR Staff
STEMming the Crisis: Immigration and the U.S. National Security Talent Base
Rachel Hoff
and
Reed Kessler
Rewind and Reconnoiter: Niger and the Risk Versus Reward of Remote Operations with Brian Petit
Brian Petit
America Needs a Dead Hand More than Ever
Adam Lowther
and
Curtis McGiffin
It’s Time for a Comprehensive National Maritime Strategy
Mark Kennedy
and
Jeff Kucik
Mismanaging of the Unmanageable: China Tries to Play All Sides in Myanmar’s Metastasizing Civil War
Lucas Myers
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once? Cyberspace Operations and Chinese Strategy
Joshua Rovner
Professionalism is the Foundation of the Army and We Will Strengthen It
Gen. Gary Brito
Admiral Raoul Castex: The Naval Strategist for Non-Hegemons
Michael Shurkin
Win-Wind: How a Bipartisan SHIPS Act Could Meet China and Climate Challenges
Joseph Webster
The Adversarial: March 7
WOTR Staff
U.S. Troops in Syria Are Critical For Multiple Missions: Keep Them On
James F. Jeffrey
Drones, the Air Littoral, and the Looming Irrelevance of the U.S. Air Force
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Outgunned in the Drone Fight: The U.S. Military Is Failing to Adopt the Next Machine Gun
Trevor Phillips-Levine
and
Walker Mills
Mid-Afternoon Map: The Temple of Time
Nick Danforth
How to Respond to China’s Global Security Initiative
John S. Van Oudenaren
Why Washington Should Side with Argentina’s Milei Against Beijing
Benjamin Gedan
Africa’s Coup Calamity: What Happened to Deterrence?
Claude Lambert
The Adversarial: February 22
WOTR Staff
In Brief: Changes to the U.S. Air Force and Space Force
Jennifer McArdle
,
Heather Penney
, and
Stacie L. Pettyjohn
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
The Adversarial: February 8
WOTR Staff
Special Operations Force Structure: Strategic Calculus or Organizational Power?
Cole Livieratos
and
Ken Gleiman
History Has No Lessons for You: A Warning for Policymakers
Joseph Stieb
Europe’s Marines in the Future European Littoral Operating Environment
Sidharth Kaushal
A “Plan Ecuador” is Needed: U.S. Assistance Should Draw Lessons from the Past
Paul J. Angelo
In Brief: The Rise in Gang Violence in Latin America
Ryan Berg
,
Vanda Felbab-Brown
, and
John Walsh
A Port Deal Puts the Horn of Africa on the Brink
Caleb Weiss
and
James Barnett
The Military’s Insistence on Owning Commercial Intellectual Property is Limiting Innovation
Shyam Sankar
,
Caitlin Dohrman
, and
Madeline Zimmerman
Networking to Win: Mission Prioritization for Wartime Command and Control
Thane C. Clare
Why U.S. Naval Power Needs Asian Allies
Choi Kang
and
Peter K. Lee
Rewind and Reconnoiter: China’s Response to the War in Gaza with Mike Singh
Michael Singh
Cutting Army Special Operations Will Erode the Military’s Ability to Influence the Modern Battlefield
Cole Livieratos
A Better Cyber Service
Michael Kreuzer
Strengthen the Military-Rhetorical Complex
Andrew Bary
The Last Gasp of Peace: The Christmas Truce of 1914 and the Modern Profession of Arms
Joseph D. Eanett
In Brief: Elections in Taiwan
Yun Sun
,
Zack Cooper
, and
Rorry Daniels
The Strategic Posture Commission’s Amazing Trip Back to the Future
Al Mauroni
Counter-Terrorism and U.S. Foreign Policy Priorities
Christine Abizaid
and
Paul Pope
Rewind and Reconnoiter: China’s Slowing Economy with Collin Meisel
Collin Meisel
The 2023 War on the Rocks Holiday Reading List
WOTR Staff
In Brief: China’s Struggling Economy
Yun Sun
,
Jude Blanchette
,
Collin Meisel
, and
Derek Scissors
Resolute Dragon: Reassurance, Deterrence, and a Call for Coordination
Bill Matory
and
Benjamin Van Horrick
Cancelling the New Sea-Launched Nuclear Cruise Missile Is the Right Move
David Kearn
The Many Faces of the Monroe Doctrine
Jay Sexton
Chinese Private Security Companies: Neither Blackwater Nor the Wagner Group
Alessandro Arduino
The United Kingdom’s Indo-Pacific Engagement
Peter Chalk
Air Samurai: Is Naval Aviation Overtraining Pilots in the Age of Automation?
Walker Mills
and
Trevor Phillips-Levine
However Difficult, The United States Should Still Pursue Israeli-Palestinian Peace
Galen Jackson
and
Andrew Leber
Rewind and Reconnoiter: The U.S.-Japanese-Korean Relationship with Takuya Matsuda
Takuya Matsuda
and
Jaehan Park
The True Military Assistance Tradeoff Is Between Israel and Taiwan
Jennifer Kavanagh
and
Jordan Cohen
U.S. Special Operations and the Shadowy Promise of Irregular Campaigns
Brian Petit
A Misleading Metaphor: The Nuclear “Arms Race”
Matthew Costlow
,
Robert Peters
, and
Kyle Balzer
Seeds of Division Between Russia and China
David A. Merkel
One Size Fits None: The United States Needs a Grand Defense Industrial Strategy
Jonathan Caverley
,
Ethan Kapstein
, and
Jennifer Kavanagh
Citizen Sailors: The Missing Link in Maritime Force Structure
Joshua P. Taylor
and
Scott Humphrey
Information Resilience: Countering Disinformation and Its Threat to the U.S. Alliance System
Jill Goldenziel
and
Daniel Grant
Rewind and Reconnoiter: Israel’s Urban Warfare with David Betz
David Betz
In Brief: China Rams Philippine Ships in the South China Sea
Zack Cooper
,
Harrison Pretat
,
Sarah Kirchberger
, and
Isaac Kardon
In Brief: New Controls on Chips
Sarah Bauerle Danzman
,
Stephen Ezell
,
Emily Kilcrease
, and
Chris Miller
Operational Art for the Replicator Initiative: Confessions of a Swarming Addict
Benjamin Jensen
The Adversarial: October 12
WOTR Experts
Old Lessons for New Maritime Statecraft
BJ Armstrong
A Tale of Two Systems: The Search for Relevant Military Health Care
Philip Flatau
Testing the Trajectory of Turkish Militarism
Ryan Gingeras
The U.S. Government Should Stockpile More Critical Minerals
Gregory Wischer
and
Jack Little
Welcome to Cyber Realism: Parsing the 2023 Department of Defense Cyber Strategy
Emerson T. Brooking
and
Erica Lonergan
Where the Wargames Weren’t: Assessing 10 Years of U.S.-Chinese Military Assessments
Matthew Tetreau
Proliferate, Don’t Obliterate: How Responsive Launch Marginalizes Anti-Satellite Capabilities
Ritwik Gupta
and
Andrew W. Reddie
In Brief: The North Korean-Russian Threat
Jenny Town
,
Ankit Panda
, and
Jonathan Corrado
Scaling the Future: How Replicator Aims to Fast-Track U.S. Defense Capabilities
Lauren Kahn
Balancing Space Superiority and Space Services to Better Sustain the Joint Force
Dennis Rice
The Biodefense Posture Review Needs Focus to Succeed
Al Mauroni
North Korea’s Coming Breakout
Jonathan Corrado
Mid-Afternoon Map: Occupied America
Nick Danforth
Revisiting the Hedge Strategy with Renewed Urgency
Michael Brown
and
Rear Adm. Lorin Selby
In Brief: BRICS Expands
Zack Cooper
,
Tanvi Madan
, and
Anya Prusa
It’s Not About Where U.S. Space Command Goes But Whether It Should Exist At All
Mackenzie Eaglen
and
Todd Harrison
Supporting Fires: A Call for Articles on Talent Management
WOTR Staff
How To Enhance South Korea’s Conventional Deterrent
Jung Jae Kwon
To Promote Defense Innovation, Fund the Defense Innovation Unit
Ben McNally
Mid-Afternoon Map: Occupied America
Nick Danforth
Embrace the Nerd: Dungeons & Dragons and Military Intelligence
Ian Strebel
and
Matt McKenzie
Italy’s New Look
Leonardo Palma
Getting Serious About Security Cooperation
Douglas A. Ollivant
Many Arms and Little Influence in the Middle East
Jordan Cohen
and
Jon Hoffman
France’s Policy Shift on Ukraine’s NATO Membership
David Cadier
and
Martin Quencez
Delivering the Army of 2030
Gen. James Rainey
and
Lt. Gen. Laura Potter
Lessons Learned or Lessons Observed: The U.S. Navy’s Relationship with Mine Warfare
Tom Wester
and
Joe Mancini
Beijing’s Wagner Wariness
Yun Sun
Implications of China’s Nuclear Expansion for Strategic Stability
Aaron Miles
A World of Blocs?
Aaron Friedberg
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
In Brief: The U.S.-Indian Relationship
Tanvi Madan
,
Arzan Tarapore
,
Vasabjit Banerjee
, and
Sharinee L. Jagtiani
Iran, Russia, and the Challenges of “Inter-Pariah Solidarity”
Mathieu Droin
and
Nicole Grajewski
Anarchy Is a Bridge: Russia and China Are Pushing NATO and Japan Together
Matthew Brummer
and
Wrenn Yennie Lindgren
It’s Not the Plane, It’s the Pilot
Francis J. Gavin
Ukraine Doesn’t Need U.S. Contractors
Rudy Weisz
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
The 2023 War On The Rocks Summer Fiction Reading List
WOTR Staff
Jihadi Blowback: The Wagner Group’s Hidden Downside
Raphael Parens
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
In the Dark: How the Pentagon’s Limited Supplier Visibility Risks U.S. National Security
Nicholas Jordan
and
Jennifer Mapp
In Brief: The Chinese Space Program
WOTR Staff
Why Norms Matter More than Ever for Space Deterrence and Defense
Robin Dickey
Qualified to Compete: A New Approach to Credentials
Alexandra Seymour
A Sanctuary No Longer? Examining the Defense Department’s Prioritization of the Homeland
Brennan Deveraux
Mid-Afternoon Map: Trains in Towns
Nick Danforth
The Ebb and Flow of Russian Military Power
Michael Kofman
and
William Wohlforth
In Brief: The Fentanyl Crisis
WOTR Staff
The Art of Supply Chain Interdiction: To Win Without Fighting
Trevor Phillips-Levine
Tempting Turmoil in Sudan: How Chadian Rebels in Sudan’s Conflict Would Further Regional Instability
Alexandre Bish
In Brief: After Elections, What’s Next For Thailand?
WOTR Staff
A Pirouette, Not A Pivot
Aaron Stein
Europe Should Not Try to Go It Alone on Defense
Brian Burton
Full-Spectrum Integrated Lethality? On the Promise and Peril of Buzzwords
Elena Wicker
How to Save French Credibility from Macron
Gesine Weber
Negotiating Saudi Arabia’s Defeat and the Houthi Victory in Yemen
Thomas Juneau
Disappearing Act: Integrated Training with Air and Ground Forces
Andrew Tenbusch
and
Trevor Phillips-Levine
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
Are We Asking Too Much of Cyber?
Erica Lonergan
and
Michael Poznansky
U.S. Security Cooperation Deserves a Fair Evaluation
Bilal Y. Saab
Xi Jinping’s Worst Nightmare: A Potemkin People’s Liberation Army
Andrew Scobell
AI At War
Anthony King
Multipolarity: What Is It Good For?
Christopher Preble
,
Zack Cooper
, and
Melanie Marlowe
In Brief: What’s Happening in the Middle East?
WOTR Staff
Money Isn’t Enough: Getting Serious About Precision Munitions
Tyler Hacker
Sustaining Distributed Forces in a Conflict with China
John Sattely
and
Jesse Johnson
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
More than a Hobby: Informal Security Assistance to Ukraine
Jahara Matisek
,
William Reno
, and
Sam Rosenberg
How Large-Language Models Can Revolutionize Military Planning
Benjamin Jensen
and
Dan Tadross
AI’s Inhuman Advantage
Paul Scharre
How the Anti-Woke Campaign Against the U.S. Military Damages National Security
Risa Brooks
Why The Marines Matter
Joslyn Fleming
,
Katherine Guthrie
, and
Colin Smith
Mind the Middle Powers
Tim Sweijs
and
Michael J. Mazarr
In Defense of Denial: Why Deterring China Requires New Airpower Thinking
Maximilian K. Bremer
and
Kelly A. Grieco
Building A New American Arsenal
Julia van der Colff
Better Burden Sharing With Allies
Christopher Preble
,
Zack Cooper
, and
Melanie Marlowe
How the Ukraine War Accelerates the Defense Strategy
Jim Mitre
Fighting Autocracy Means Fighting Corruption
Daniel J. Henderson
and
Kelly McFarland
For the Sake of Ceremony: Should the U.S. Navy Continue its Airborne Forward Air Controller Program?
Trevor Phillips-Levine
and
Andrew Tenbusch
Munitions Return to a Place of Prominence in National Security
Vasabjit Banerjee
and
Benjamin Tkach
The Liberal Cyber Order
Joshua Rovner
Pipeline as a Product: How Project Linchpin Plans to Deliver Artificial Intelligence for the Army
Nick Bono
and
Bharat Patel
Miscalibration of Trust in Human Machine Teaming
John Christianson
,
Di Cooke
, and
Courtney Stiles Herdt
Army at 250: Beyond a Slogan, the Army Needs a New Narrative Strategy
Dan Vallone
The Hard Politics of Soft Power
Daniel Runde
Turkey’s More Independent Foreign Policy
Christopher Preble
,
Melanie Marlowe
, and
Aaron Stein
The Russian Bear Returns
Nick Danforth
U.S.-Russian Relations Can Still Get Worse
Hanna Notte
Managing Risk for Special Operations Forces in Large-Scale Combat Operations
Tim Ball
It’s Time to Recognize Sustainment as a Strategic Imperative
Antulio J. Echevarria
The Case for Japanese Land Power in the First Island Chain
Yusuke Kawachi
What Happens if the Balloon Goes Up With China?
Hal Brands
and
William Inboden
Recalibrating Special Operations Risk Tolerance for the Future Fight
Spencer Reed
The Triumphs and Tribulations of Peter the Great: What Putin’s View of 18th-Century Warfare Can Tell Us About Ukraine
Alexander Burns
Deterrence Through Doctrine: The Case for a Joint Counter-Landing Doctrine
Dylan Buck
and
Zach Ota
A New Path For Syria’s Kurds
Asli Aydintasbas
and
Julien Barnes-Dacey
The Real Reasons for Taiwan’s Arms Backlog — and How to Help Fill It
Jennifer Kavanagh
and
Jordan Cohen
Don’t Drive Away Smart Students
Ryan P. Kellogg
and
Anita R. Kellogg
How to Win Friends and Choke China’s Chip Supply
Emily Kilcrease
Ukraine and the New Two War Construct
Raphael S. Cohen
American Defense Priorities After Ukraine
Frank Hoffman
Toward a More Dynamic Italian Military
Federico Borsari
Psychological Capabilities for Resilience
Shannon Houck
The Last Gasp of Peace: The Christmas Truce of 1914 and the Modern Profession of Arms
Joseph D. Eanett
The Ghost of Missiles Past
Susan Colbourn
How to Win Friends and Influence Autocrats: Toward a Democratic Security Initiative
Kerry Buck
and
Michael W. Manulak
Cognition and Curiosity: A Conversation with Lt. Gen. Brian Robinson
Lt. Gen. Brian Robinson
and
Ryan Evans
The 2022 War On The Rocks Holiday Reading List
WOTR Staff
A Plan to Push Back Against China’s Fishing Practices
Aaron Delano-Johnson
and
Chris Bernotavicius
The Pentagon Can’t Count: It’s Time to Reinvent the Audit
Steve Blank
COSCO’s Hamburg Terminal Acquisition: Lessons For Europe
Francesca Ghiretti
and
Jacob Gunter
How Can the Marines Learn From the Falklands War?
Nolan Vihlen
Don’t Let Zeitenwende Get Derailed
Sophia Besch
and
Liana Fix
The Bias For Capability Over Capacity Has Created a Brittle Force
Mackenzie Eaglen
The F-16 and Nuclear Security: The Fault Lines in the U.S.-Pakistani Relationship
Sajjan M. Gohel
and
Marcus Andreopoulos
Why Wait to Promote Potential? Because It Will Make the Air Force Better
Reagan Mullin
Byte, With, and Through: How Special Operations and Cyber Command Can Support Each Other
Josh Golding
Wargaming Climate Change: Who Plays for the Red Team?
Andrea H. Cameron
and
Sharon E. Burke
Why Dictators are Afraid of Girls: Rethinking Gender and National Security
Kathleen J. McInnis
,
Benjamin Jensen
, and
Jaron Wharton
Mending the “Broken Arrow”: Confidence Building Measures at the AI-Nuclear Nexus
Lauren Kahn
The Case for Getting Rid of the National Security Strategy
Justin Logan
and
Benjamin H. Friedman
Don’t Expect Any More Russian Help on the Iran Nuclear Deal
Hanna Notte
Preventing Wars is as Important as Winning Them: Lessons From Past Naval Strategies
BJ Armstrong
Assessing the National Security Strategy
Christopher Preble
,
Melanie Marlowe
, and
Zack Cooper
Ukraine’s Dream Could Be Taiwan’s Nightmare
Michael Spirtas
Fixing Defense Innovation: Rewriting Acquisition and Security Regulations
Jules Hurst
A Chat With Lt. Gen. Andrea Tullos of Air University
Lt. Gen. Andrea Tullos
and
Ryan Evans
As Russia Reels, Eurasia Roils
Jeffrey Mankoff
In Search of an Air Force Meritocracy
Kevin Rossillon
More Than a Bicycle Brake on a Missile: AI Ethics in Defense
Jorrit Kamminga
Keep MQ-9 Pilots Flying
Tyler Jackson
Walking the Talk in International Engagement and Security Cooperation
E. John Teichert
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
Reliance on Dual-Use Technology Is a Trap
Jake Chapman
To Support and Defend: Principles of Civilian Control and Best Practices of Civil-Military Relations
Open Letter
Funding the Indo-Pacific Pivot
Rep. Rob Wittman
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
Reduce Friction in Space by Amending the 1967 Outer Space Treaty
Douglas Ligor
France, Egypt, and India Can Help to Spread Security from Mediterranean to the Indo-Pacific
Mohammed Soliman
,
Pierre Morcos
, and
C. Raja Mohan
The Fourth Taiwan Strait Crisis Is Just Starting
Christopher P. Twomey
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
Is U.S. Support to Taiwan Substantive or Symbolic?
Zack Cooper
,
Melanie Marlowe
, and
Michael J. Mazarr
Strategic Outpost’s Seventh Annual Summer Vacation Reading List
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Ending the Ideology of the Offense, Part I
David Johnson
A K-Arsenal of Democracy? South Korea and U.S. Allied Defense Procurement
Peter K. Lee
and
Tom Corben
Breadbasket Diplomacy: Preserving Wheat as a Tool of American Statecraft
Rosella Cappella Zielinski
and
Justin Gilpin
Doctrine for Diplomacy: To Remain Relevant, the U.S. State Department Needs a New Statecraft
Dan Spokojny
An Alternative History of AirLand Battle, Part II
David Johnson
and
Zach Alessi-Friedlander
Moving On After AUKUS: Working with France in the Indo-Pacific
Gesine Weber
and
Edgar Tam
Despite Rhetoric, Biden is Continuing Trump’s Weapons Sales
Lauren Woods
Is NATO’s Vision for Its Future Right?
Zack Cooper
,
Christopher Preble
, and
Melanie Marlowe
Aim Higher: The U.S.-Philippine Alliance Can Do More
Gregory H. Winger
and
Julio S. Amador III
“Win the War Before the War?”: A French Perspective on Cognitive Warfare
David Pappalardo
At the Seam of Three Regions: The Case for More Basing and Access in Greece and Cyprus
Aaron Stein
AI, Autonomy, and the Risk of Nuclear War
James Johnson
You Go to War with the Watercraft You Have
Chris Bernotavicius
,
Michelle Macander
,
Danielle Ngo
, and
John Schaus
South Korea Needs a Wake-Up Call On Its Reservist Crisis
Brendan Balestrieri
and
Won-geun Koo
The Case Against Security Cooperation in Fragile States
Barbara Salera
For Richer or for Poorer: Security Cooperation with Developing Countries
Fabiana Sofia Perera
India Is a Swing State — Cooperate with it Accordingly
Sharinee L. Jagtiani
and
Ameya Pratap Singh
Seeing, Knowing, and Deciding: The Technological Command Dream That Never Dies?
Ian Reynolds
On-the-Ground Truth and Force Design 2030 Reconciliation: A Way Forward
Scott Cuomo
A Modern-Day Frederick the Great? The End of Short, Sharp Wars
David Johnson
Driving the Dark Road to the Future: A Guide to Revitalizing Defense Planning and Strategic Analysis
Benjamin Jensen
and
Michael Rountree
Don’t Let Russia Dominate the Strategic Concept
Jordan Becker
,
Douglas Lute
, and
Simon Smith
Priors and Prejudice: Planning the U.S. Navy’s Future
Emma Salisbury
What the Indian Military Won’t Learn from the War in Ukraine
Anit Mukherjee
Let the Commandant Lead the Marine Corps
Nicholas Hanson
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
America Ignores Africa at Its Own Peril
Joe Bruhl
The Army Risks Reasoning Backwards in Analyzing Ukraine
David Johnson
Sanctions and Satellites: The Space Industry After the Russo-Ukrainian War
Jeremy Grunert
The 2022 War on the Rocks Summer Fiction Reading List
WOTR Staff
Rebooting the Arsenal of Democracy
Trae Stephens
Would We Do Better? Hubris and Validation in Ukraine
David Johnson
Will Finland and Sweden Joining NATO Deepen the Alliance’s Problems?
Zachary Selden
Are the Marines Inventing the Edsel or the Mustang?
Owen West
Recovering a Balance-of-Power Principle for the 21st Century
Andrew Ehrhardt
The Future of Western-Russian Civil-Space Cooperation
Jeremy Grunert
The Changing Character of Combined Arms
Benjamin Jensen
and
Matthew Strohmeyer
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
Threats From Out of This World
Zack Cooper
,
Melanie Marlowe
, and
Christopher Preble
Building a Cyber Force Is Even Harder Than You Thought
Max Smeets
Flying Dirty: Unmanned Casualty Evacuation on the Contaminated Battlefield
Mike Hicks
and
John Stoodley
Too Fragile to Fight: Could the U.S. Military Withstand a War of Attrition?
Conrad Crane
The Psychology of Stickiness: What America Can Learn From Its Annexation of the Philippines in 1898
Aroop Mukharji
How AI Would — and Wouldn’t — Factor Into a U.S.-Chinese War
Alex Stephenson
and
Ryan Fedasiuk
Sweeter Carrots and Harder Sticks: Rethinking U.S. Security Assistance
Jeremy Gwinn
The Tank Is Dead: Long Live the Javelin, the Switchblade, the … ?
David Johnson
Eight New Points on the Porcupine: More Ukrainian Lessons for Taiwan
Andrew Erickson
and
Gabriel Collins
As Silicon Valley Tries to Enlist, the Pentagon Strangles Innovation
Steve Blank
Time to Shelve Denuclearization and Negotiate a Halt to North Korea’s ICBM Program
Mayumi Fukushima
The Marine Corps and the Naval Campaign: The Necessary Context of Debate
Joseph Mozzi
Reboot the Defense Innovation Ecosystem
Shands Pickett
Budget Reform Can’t Succeed Without Congress
Matt Vallone
The Lessons of Reagan’s Pipeline Crisis for Competing with China
Nicholas Romanow
and
William Inboden
Insights for Marine (and Beyond) Force Design from the Russo-Ukrainian War
Noel Williams
We Need Senior Cyber Leaders. Service War Colleges Can Train Them
Alfredo Rodriguez
Will Western-Russian Confrontation Shake the Middle East?
Hanna Notte
A Proxy War in Ukraine Is the Worst Possible Outcome — Except For All the Others
Sam Winter-Levy
Oft Forgotten But Critical Elements of Ukrainian Resistance
Walter Haynes
China’s Plan for Digital Dominance
David Dorman
The Hard Power of Security Cooperation
E. John Teichert
The Urgent Case for Energy Austerity
Emily Holland
and
Marco Giuli
Duty Bound to Disaster: Beware the Imperative in Foreign Policymaking
Michael J. Mazarr
How the Bundeswehr Should Spend Its Money
Michael Shurkin
The Power of Proper Security Cooperation
E. John Teichert
Why Russian Cyber Dogs Have Mostly Failed to Bark
Jelena Vićić
and
Rupal N. Mehta
Maintaining America’s Nuclear Deterrent
John D. Maurer
Preventing Cyber Escalation in Ukraine and After
Jason Healey
China’s Strategic Assessment of Russia: More Complicated Than You Think
Yun Sun
From Pledges to Action? Europe’s Move Away from Russian Fossil Fuels
Gregory Brew
Putin Loses No Matter How This Plays Out, But We Might Too
Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer
The Wargame Before the War: Russia Attacks Ukraine
James Lacey
,
Tim Barrick
, and
Nathan Barrick
Intelligence Disclosures in the Ukraine Crisis and Beyond
Jake Harrington
Understanding the Russo-Ukrainian War: A Guide From War on the Rocks
Ryan Evans
The Full Potential of a Military Metaverse
Jennifer McArdle
and
Caitlin Dohrman
What Would Russia’s Break With the West Mean for Nuclear Arms Control?
Hanna Notte
and
Sarah Bidgood
Renew Space Dialogue with China
Craig Kafura
The Light Fighter Is the Air Force’s Manned-Unmanned Team Solution
Alex Biegalski
Closing the Civil-Military Trust Gap
Paula Thornhill
Signaling America’s New Middle East Foreign Policy
Morgan L. Kaplan
How a Russian-Led Alliance Keeps a Lid on Central Asia
Polina Beliakova
South Korea’s ‘Doves’ Seek Peace Through Strength
Jongsuk Jeong
Are European Navies Ready for High-Intensity Warfare?
Pierre Morcos
and
Colin Wall
Being a Better Partner in the Pacific
Alan Tidwell
The Pentagon Is in Desperate Need of an Intervention From the Top
Dustin Walker
How Long Can Biden Muddle Through on China?
Joshua Rovner
Reviving the Victory Garden: The Military Benefits of Sustainable Farming
Leo Blanken
and
Ben Cohen
Preparing for Inevitable Cyber Surprise
Jason Healey
Spiking the Problem: Developing a Resilient Posture in the Indo-Pacific with Passive Defenses
Stacie L. Pettyjohn
The Problems of Politics and Posture Are Baked into the System
Bryan McGrath
France’s Shifting Relations with China
Pierre Morcos
Gen. David H. Berger on the Marine Corps of the Future
Gen. David H. Berger
and
Ryan Evans
Startups and the Defense Department’s Compliance Labyrinth
Daniel K. Lim
The Unmet Promise of the Global Posture Review
Becca Wasser
The Unplanned Costs of an Unmanned Fleet
Jonathan Panter
and
Johnathan Falcone
What’s Behind the Arms Buildup in the Balkans
Vuk Vuksanovic
and
Marija Ignjatijevic
Doing Less to Do Better: Why the Military Can’t Solve Its Overwork Problem
J. Alexander Thew
Iranian President Raisi’s Renewed Emphasis on Space Is Likely to Create New Tensions
Jim Lamson
and
Jeffrey Lewis
Cyber Challenges for the New National Defense Strategy
Erica Lonergan
and
Jacquelyn Schneider
More than Math: Toward a Better Strategy for Advanced Analytics
James “Mike” Blue
,
Anthony Smith
, and
Colleen McCue
Changing My Mind About AUKUS
Sam Roggeveen
The Space Force’s Critical Lesson for the Rest of the Military
Reagan Mullin
We’re Not in Kissinger’s Middle East Anymore
Abe Silberstein
AUKUS: A Cautionary Tale for French-American Relations
Célia Belin
Talent Management for a Modern Military
Zack Cooper
,
Melanie Marlowe
, and
Christopher Preble
Embrace the Arms Race in Asia
Julian Spencer-Churchill
Why Restraint in the Real World Encourages Digital Espionage
Joshua Rovner
‘Never Thought They Could Pull Off Such an Attack’: Prejudice and Pearl Harbor
Caesar Nafrada
and
Joseph Caddell
Is America Still Born to Rule the Seas?
Claude Berube
Why the West Won’t Do More in the Balkans
Gorana Grgić
The 2021 War on the Rocks Holiday Reading List
WOTR Staff
The Uncomfortable Reality of the U.S. Army’s Role in a War Over Taiwan
Jacquelyn Schneider
Biden’s Conventional Arms Transfer Policy Review Could Be a Turning Point
Jordan Cohen
America and the Arctic: A Song of Fire and Ice
Zack Cooper
,
Melanie Marlowe
, and
Christopher Preble
War by Timeframe: Responding to China’s Pacing Challenge
Michael Horowitz
Taiwan’s Defense Plans Are Going Off the Rails
Michael A. Hunzeker
Why Cyber War Is Subversive, and How that Limits its Strategic Value
Lennart Maschmeyer
Lessons from the Littoral Combat Ship
Emma Salisbury
How Technology Changes Arms Control
Jane Vaynman
and
Doyle Hodges
The Ambivalent Supplier: U.S. Arms Transfer Policy Under Biden
Shimon Arad
Biological Weapons in the ‘Shadow War’
Glenn Cross
How to Avoid Nuclear War
Michael Krepon
A Japanese Seaplane Could Be the Difference-Maker for the U.S. Military
David Alman
Unleashing the U.S. Military’s Thinking about Cyber Power
M.A. Thomas
Extending that ‘Loving Feeling’ to Undersea Warfare
Frank Hoffman
The Shared Genius of Mahan and Corbett
BJ Armstrong
Should Biden Be Pro-Democracy or Anti-Autocracy?
Zack Cooper
,
Melanie Marlowe
, and
Christopher Preble
The United States Left Afghanistan to Prepare for a War It Will Probably Never Fight
Jacob Ware
India Is Not Sitting on the Geopolitical Fence
Tanvi Madan
There Was Once a Dream That Was the Turkish Republic
Selim Koru
A Strategy of Denial
Elbridge Colby
Chinese Views of the Changing Nuclear Balance
Brian Radzinsky
China Flaunts Its Offensive Cyber Power
J.D. Work
Richard Haass Is Unhappy
Zack Cooper
,
Melanie Marlowe
, and
Christopher Preble
Can’t Sail Away from Cyber Attacks: ‘Sea-Hacking’ from Land
Chris C. Demchak
and
Michael L. Thomas
The Taliban Can’t Take on the Islamic State Alone
Amira Jadoon
and
Andrew Mines
Killing Terrorist Leaders Is No Silver Bullet
Colin Clarke
Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff: Getting Force Design Right in the Next National Defense Strategy
Stacie L. Pettyjohn
and
Becca Wasser
Cyber Security is Only Partly Cloudy
Christina Morillo
In Post-American Central Asia, Russia and China are Tightening Their Grip
Bradley Jardine
and
Edward Lemon
Much Ado About AUKUS
Zack Cooper
,
Melanie Marlowe
, and
Adam Mount
Adapting Intelligence to the New Afghanistan
Thomas Spahr
The U.S.-Australian Alliance Needs a Strategy to Deter China’s Gray-Zone Coercion
Ashley Townshend
,
Thomas Lonergan
, and
Toby Warden
Don’t Count Your Submarines Before They’re Built
Erik Sand
Succeeding Xi Jinping
Nan Li
What to Expect When You’re Expecting a National Defense Strategy
Thomas Spoehr
,
Bradley Bowman
,
Bryan Clark
, and
Mackenzie Eaglen
Senate Commission to Fix Defense Budgeting Is Right on the Mark
John Whitley
and
Gregory Pejic
The Biden Administration Needs to Act Fast to Reset Relations with France
Max Bergmann
A Tale of Two Biden Doctrines
Zack Cooper
,
Melanie Marlowe
, and
Christopher Preble
The Subprime Strategy Crisis: Failed Strategic Assessment in Afghanistan
Cole Livieratos
Beyond Biological Defense: Maintaining the U.S. Biotechnology Advantage
Rob Carlson
,
Chad Sbragia
, and
Kate Sixt
What Tigray Portends: The Future of Peace and Security in Africa
Sam Wilkins
Avoiding a Collision Course With India
Sameer Lalwani
and
Tyler Sagerstrom
Confronting Chaos: A New Concept for Information Advantage
Chris Dougherty
A Weapons of Mass Destruction Strategy for the 21st Century
Al Mauroni
,
Zachary Kallenborn
,
Seth Carus
, and
Ron Fizer
Credibility Controversies: The Implications of Afghanistan for the Indo-Pacific
Evan Braden Montgomery
The Return of Great-Power Proxy Wars
Frank Hoffman
and
Andrew Orner
The Evolving Geography of the U.S. Defense Industrial Base
Doug Berenson
Iran’s Bet on Autonomous Weapons
Evan Omeed Lisman
A Better Approach to Organizing Combatant Commands
Margaux Hoar
,
Jeremy Sepinsky
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Peter M. Swartz
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Stacie L. Pettyjohn
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René Balletta
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Nancy Ezzeddine
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Erwin van Veen
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Philip Potter
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George W. Foresman
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Michael Horowitz
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Twitter Will Not Steward the Profession
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Women, Peace, and Security: Moving Implementation Forward
Joan Johnson-Freese
The Information Technology Counter-Revolution: Cheap, Disposable, and Decentralized
Jacquelyn Schneider
and
Julia Macdonald
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and
Alan Tidwell
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Christopher Karvetski
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Philip E. Tetlock
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Myra MacDonald
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Zack Cooper
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Melanie Marlowe
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Christopher Preble
An American Force Structure for the 21st Century
Bruce Held
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Brad Martin
New Tools to Create Time and Information: “Building the Bike While We Ride It”
Gen. Glen D. VanHerck
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Trevor Prouty
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Christopher Dougherty
Economics and U.S. National Security
Francis J. Gavin
As Allies Design Fighter Aircraft, the United States Faces a Decision
Brian Burton
The Challenge of Educating the Military on Cyber Strategy
Erica Borghard
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Mark Montgomery
, and
Brandon Valeriano
Hellfires Wanted: It’s Time to Start Tasking Armed Drones as Combat Aircraft
Joe Ritter
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Veerle Nouwens
and
Garima Mohan
Don’t Base U.S. Forces in Central Asia
Cyrus Newlin
and
Jeffrey Mankoff
China’s Atomic Pessimism and the Future of Arms Control
Henrik Stålhane Hiim
and
Magnus Langset Trøan
A State Department for the Digital Age
Ferial Ara Saeed
The Cold Comfort of Mutually Assured Destruction
Jasen Castillo
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David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
‘Bombing to Win’ at 25
Heather Venable
and
Sebastian Lukasik
Look to the 1980s to Inform the Fleet of Today
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Matthew Rojansky
The Budget (and Fleet) That Might Have Been
Blake Herzinger
Make European Defense European
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The Way Ahead for the Next Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness
Katherine Kuzminski
and
Nathalie Grogan
The Political Economy of Ransomware
Jenny Jun
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Dominic Tierney
Net Assessing American and Chinese Innovation
Walter M. Hudson
A U.S. Security Strategy for the Arctic
David Auerswald
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Joe Devanny
and
Tim Stevens
Talking the Talk: Language Capabilities for U.S. Army Special Forces
Tim Ball
More Than a Buzzword: Diversity Can Help Defeat Disinformation
Maggie Smith
Military Sexual Assault Is a Moral Injury
Jessica Wolfendale
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John Lechner
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Jeff Becker
A Millennial Considers the New German Problem After 30 Years of Peace
Ulrike Franke
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Bryce Loidolt
Cyber Security as Counter-Terrorism: Seeking a Better Debate
Simon Handler
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Emma Schroeder
, and
Trey Herr
Bring Back the Air Force Battle Lab
Mike Benitez
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Samuel Charap
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Jeffrey D. Bean
and
Stephen Ezell
How China Views the U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan
Yun Sun
A Five-Ring Circus in China: The Proposed Boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics
Nicholas Evan Sarantakes
The U.S. Navy in the Indian Ocean: India’s ‘Goldilocks’ Dilemma
Abhijit Singh
Conflicts in Wargames: Leveraging Disagreements to Build Value
Thomas Nagle
Seeking Serenity: A New American Influence Strategy for Southeast Asia and Beyond
Austin S. Matthews
and
Collin Meisel
The Department of Defense’s Looming AI Winter
Marc Losito
and
John Anderson
Strategic Predictability: Landpower in the Indo-Pacific
Lt. Gen. Charles Flynn
and
Lt. Gen. Laura Potter
The Eagle and the Dragon in Africa: Comparing Data on Chinese and American Influence
George Ward
,
Eric Kiss
, and
Pat Savage
Leaving Afghanistan Will Make America Less Safe
Bruce Hoffman
and
Jacob Ware
Why the United States Needs an Independent Cyber Force
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Rethinking the Past
Francis J. Gavin
Biden and the Western Balkans
Vuk Vuksanovic
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Anu Anwar
The Sino-American Race for Technology Leadership
Ferial Ara Saeed
New Normal in Sino-Indian Ties
Chietigj Bajpaee
U.S. Defense Strategy After the Pandemic
Frank Hoffman
China Does Not Have to Be America’s Enemy in the Middle East
Ashley Rhoades
and
Dalia Dassa Kaye
Britain’s New Strategic Outlook: The View from Washington
Ryan Evans
Democracy and Grand Strategy
Zack Cooper
,
Melanie Marlowe
, and
Christopher Preble
Restoring Nuclear Bipartisanship: Force Modernization and Arms Control
John D. Maurer
Gaining Temporary Protected Status and Losing Hope: Venezuelans In and Outside the Country
Fabiana Sofia Perera
What Napoleon Can Teach Us About the South China Sea
Matthew Flynn
Afghan Cities Become Key Battlegrounds
Ashley Jackson
and
Antônio Sampaio
What to Expect When You Don’t Want Your Adversaries to Know What to Expect
Jerry Meyerle
and
Amelia MacSleyne
China’s Shifting Attitude on the Indo-Pacific Quad
Joel Wuthnow
U.K. Nuclear Weapons: Beyond the Numbers
Heather Williams
Mutual Suspicion, Mutual Threats: Getting Japan and South Korea to Work Together
Andrew Park
and
Elliot Silverberg
How Franco-Australian Cooperation Can Help Stabilize the Indo-Pacific
Pierre Morcos
The Longest Telegram: A Visionary Blueprint for the Comprehensive Grand Strategy Against China We Need
C. Lee Shea
National Security Needs Both Futurists and Traditionalists
Zachary Kallenborn
Listen to America’s Top Commander in the Indo-Pacific and Fund the Pacific Deterrence Initiative
Mark Montgomery
and
Bradley Bowman
Storm Clouds Ahead: Musings About the 2022 Defense Budget
Robert Work
Counter-Terrorism Hangover or Legal Obligation? The Requirement to Protect Civilians in War
Sahr Muhammedally
What to Expect When You’re Expecting NATO in Iraq
Paolo Napolitano
Reconsidering Arms Control Orthodoxy
Naomi Egel
and
Jane Vaynman
All About EVE: What Virtual Forever Wars Can Teach Us About the Future of Combat
Thomas Shugart
The Secret to Space Force Success Isn’t Complicated
Justin T. Johnson
When It Comes to Strategy, People Are Everything
Morgan Plummer
Steering in the Right Direction in the Military-Technical Revolution
Robert Work
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James A. Winnefeld, Jr.
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Stephanie O’Sullivan
Covert Action, Espionage, and the Intelligence Contest in Cyberspace
Michael Poznansky
The State of (Deterrence by) Denial
Elbridge Colby
and
Walter Slocombe
A New Great Game Finds the South Atlantic
Ralph Espach
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Evan S. Medeiros
and
Jude Blanchette
An Irregular Upgrade to Operational Design
Brian Petit
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Steve Ferenzi
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Kevin Bilms
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