Deterrence

Former Secretary of Defense and former Director of Central Intelligence Robert Gates recently observed in the pages of Foreign Affairs that, “The United States now confronts graver threats to its security than...

To date, the formula for the United States’ strategic interaction with most allies has been fairly direct:  It revolved around the idea that allies need to defend themselves from attack...

The recent ASPI report by Marcus Hellyer and Andrew Nicolls is a welcome addition to the B-21 debate in Australia. In the report, Hellyer and Nicolls cite Michael Mazarr, a...

The dawn of the nuclear age changed every aspect of military calculations except for, unfortunately, the Pentagon’s counting skills. The United States continues to bear the consequences of this failure...

The twenty-first century will challenge the concept of deterrence in new ways. Some are already apparent. There are at least nine important components of the new metaverse for deterrence (or...

President Joe Biden might be right that the use of tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine will lead to “Armageddon.” Since NATO is outmatched 250 to 2,000 in the category of...

Here’s What to Remember: RAND urged the Norwegian defense ministry to use the F-35s in new ways. Norway’s got a new military strategy. To deter and, in the event of war, defeat Russian...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: A more dispersed, multi-domain force able to successfully network with allies can exponentially increase the size and speed of its striking power. Longer ranges can also help...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The integration focus of the strategy is clearly invested in the need for multi-domain operations and joint U.S.-allied war preparation exercises. If the U.S. military truly...

HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA – “Not today” was the term used by the Pentagon’s highest-ranking military officer to describe the thought process of potential enemies contemplating an attack on the U.S.  The...

During the Cold War, no concept was more central to U.S. national security strategy and to the relationship between the superpowers than deterrence.  The concept long predates the Cold War,...

According to a new Gallup poll 18 percent of Americans view Russia as the top threat to the United States. This indicates that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aggressiveness in Ukraine has begun...