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Paul Amato, A "One-War" Warfighting Construct No Longer Applies to U.S. Nuclear Strategy, No. 632, August 6, 2025 Download PDF A "One-War" Warfighting Construct No Longer Applies ...

On June 23rd, 2025, Iran's Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. For Araghchi, the stakes were high. Just a week before, Israel launched a devastating ...

When Patrick McGee decided to write Apple in China, he wanted to focus on the company's weaknesses rather than its strengths. Reviewing the evidence, he soon realised that it all pointed to ...

Funding cuts and policy uncertainty signal a worrying potential forAmerican withdrawal from a continent where influence matters. The United States is at a critical juncture with respect to its ...

Since March, China has been making a splash with manoeuvres off its south coast involving a line of odd-looking barges with retractable legs that work like giant stilts. Taiwanese analysts aren't ...

Seventeen Amendments That Strengthen U.S. Defense When it comes to national security, the decisions made in Washington too often feel distant--abstract debates over budgets and policies with little ...

On the Senate Armed Services Committee, I secured a series of wins for implementing artificial intelligence and reforming Navy shipbuilding. As a Navy veteran serving in the United States Senate, I ...

Russia has started employing a new guided glide bomb in Ukraine called the UMPB-5, according to Ukrainian authorities. It appears to be a more powerful derivative of a bomb introduced last year,

After more than a decade of apathy and false starts, the Navy will shrink to a nadir of 280 warships by 2027--the same time that Chinese leaders have made clear their military is to be ready to ...

Iran, known as the head of the octopus for its terrorism proliferation, may be getting a lifeline from the country known as the dragon--China. Beijing has reportedly offered Iran air defense assets ...