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Although nuclear talks with the Iranians will resume today, there are already major disputes as to what's been agreed to so far. Beyond these disputes, two additional major issues--the need for ...

Executive Summary: General Secretary Xi Jinping's reforms to the nomenklatura system has built a selectocracy that is best understood as a realignment with Leninist party-building norms after ...

A Call for Decisive Transformation in Military Medical Readiness Last month, more than 2,600 military health professionals gathered in Dallas for the annual Military Health System Worldwide ...

I served 27 years in the United States Navy, including during the 1996 Taiwan Strait Crisis aboard the Japan-based aircraft carrier USS Independence (CV-62). We stood watch as China tested missiles ...

Did China's missile test just solve Albanese's Pacific security problem? Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been on a hot streak of Pacific diplomacy. Over the past week, Australia ...

The West needs to reinvent counterterrorism. While most nations gain sympathy when they're attacked, Israel lost support in the two years after the deadliest attack since its founding. This should ...

A refined five-point operational framework to leverage technological asymmetries, disrupt Russian logistics, and break the attritional stalemate in 2026. In the annals of warfare, few phrases capture ...

Through speech acts by Chinese policymakers1 and the publication of defense white papers2, China has long signaled its intentions to 'reunify' Taiwan with the Chinese mainland, with the option of ...

Defending the Red Sea is a Trillion-Dollar Financial Prerequisite Executive Summary The Conflict: Current U.S. naval strategy relies on a framework of passive containment and proportional responses ...

The Army's Transformation Initiative is the most significant restructuring of the force in a generation. Twenty-one Brigade Combat Teams--fourteen Regular Army and seven National Guard--convert to ...