Grand Strategy

The United States is pursuing a backward Middle East strategy, one in which it seeks to avoid conflict by restraining its allies, rather than deterring its adversaries.  (Note, for example, Mr....

Joe Biden, in concert with American public opinion, soured on the long U.S. military disasters in Iraq and Afghanistan and finally withdrew U.S. forces from the two-decade disaster in Afghanistan,...

As the curtains fell on the UN’s annual high-level meetings last week, the world was left with an unsettling message: the international order is crumbling, and no one can agree...

From proclamations that “America is back” to promises of “relentless diplomacy,” President Joe Biden’s foreign policy framework sounds decisively Wilsonian. By centering his foreign policy on restoration—of treaty alliances, trade...

The United States has forgotten one of the basic principles of being a great country: have a strategic vision. Citizens at home and abroad could once point to Washington and...

“THE PROCESS of coming to grips with one’s limits is never easy,” Henry Kissinger once wrote about the American experience in the late 1960s. “It can end in despair or...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: In other words, a global maritime power like the United States must guard North America while preserving its command of the maritime commons that connects North America...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Fiction cannot predict the future any more than social science can. Setting intellectual ferment in motion is the point. Taken in that spirit, well-crafted storytelling...

Here’s What You Need to Know: Real strategies are born of hard choices. Strategy is the “guiding lifeline” for approaching monster challenges. To deliver a strategy that fits the challenges of...

Here’s What You Need to Know: Could-be history is a mode of inquiry that compels you to think. Sometimes academics say the darndest things. To wit: I recently got in an...

Here’s What You Need to Know: Japanese strategists had long been avid consumers of Mahan’s writings. Americans have Alfred Thayer Mahan to blame for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. They...

In early March, the Biden administration released the Interim National Security Strategic Guidance 2021, its first official statement of how it understands the United States’ national interests, the threats to...