by Manpreet Sethi, Radm Sudarshan Shrikhande, Arun Sahgal Proposals to deploy front-line tactical nuclear weapons, on the basis that India will not respond to their usage,…
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Gripped by a false sense of morality enveloped in hubris and Machiavellian calculations, Washington risks taking the world over the precipice of the abyss. This…
by Scott B. MacDonald Last month’s summit in Brasilia was intended to help push along South American political and economic integration and reduce American influence…
Beijing’s efforts to swing U.S. elections have gone relatively under-noticed in Washington. That must change. By Seth D. Kaplan Russian efforts to manipulate American elections…
by Shingo Nagata The release of the Japan-UK Accord means that defense and security cooperation has extended to the entire society of both countries. Since…
by Ahmed Charai How can America continue to lead the world without leaders who can combine high theory and grounded pragmatism, as Kissinger does?…
by Paul Heer George Kennan’s idea of “serious diplomacy” in pursuit of peaceful coexistence merits even greater consideration and urgency now than it did…
by David Schenker Egypt has been described as “too big to fail.” However, a further deterioration is possible. The late February reception of the…
By Paul Coyer Religion, and the interplay between religious and national identities, has played and continues to play a major role in shaping Central and…
By Roy Mathews What happens when the U.S. military needs emergency access to satellites? With China and Russia having developed anti-satellite weapons and other nations…
By Roy Mathews A Chinese moon base sounds like the punchline of a bad conspiracy theory. But Yang Mengfei—a member of the China Aerospace and…
By Todd Royal Aside from environmental concerns, there is no other realistic way to scale up energy supply to meet expected future demand. The U.S.…
By Scott B. MacDonald Bolivia’s economy is running aground, squeezed by higher global interest rates and policy missteps. Its foreign exchange reserves, which stood at…
By Paul Pillar The United States has an interest in lessening, not perpetuating or increasing, tensions in the Persian Gulf region. Improved Saudi-Israeli relations…
by Jacob Heilbrunn Two experts discuss whether the war in Ukraine can escalate into a global conflict between Russia and the United States. With tensions…
By Alex Hollings Posted: 31 January 2021 If you think this story is crazy, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. In 2019, the U.S. Navy’s…
Blog Brand: The Buzz The ammunition shortage, which dates back to last year, has been attributed to several factors. Pandemic restrictions on other activities pushed some…
How would it work? (Washington, D.C.) The Army Research Laboratory is exploring new applications of AI designed to better enable forward operating robot “tanks”…