Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year came as no surprise to the West. But the Kremlin’s recent ability to escalate without pushback is surprising. Last month Russian jet fighters in Syria harassed U ...
On Monday, the Pentagon announced the US will soon begin training the Ukrainian military in using howitzer artillery in an unnamed country. Presumably this will be in a NATO member state. If Russian ...
Kerry M. Kartchner and Michael S. Gerson, “Escalation to Limited Nuclear War,” in On Limited Nuclear War in the 21 st Century, eds., Jeffrey A. Larson and Kerry M. Kartchner (Stanford: Stanford ...
Guam missile defense site: The Missile Defense Agency is taking first steps for a facility in Guam as part of a long-term missile defense plan in the Indo-Pacific region, Defense One’s Lauren Williams ...
Anytime a Secretary of Defense returns from Hawaii, one braces for tough talk and the “coming war with China.” Thankfully, Lloyd Austin took a different approach. Last week he gave a speech ...
complex and difficult than traditional deterrence theory might suggest. This essay lays out some of the unique characteristics of the China challenge before considering how minilaterals can best ...
Deterrence is based on psychology rather than specific tools and seeks to change adversaries’ cost-benefit calculations to convince them not to engage in aggression. Because gray-zone aggression ...
The United States is “furiously” writing a new nuclear deterrence theory that simultaneously faces Russia and China, said the top commander of America’s nuclear arsenal—and needs more Americans ...
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