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Mike Kofman and Ryan brought out the mics to discuss the pressing issues in the war between Ukraine and Russia. They focused ...

Lee Jae-myung — the Democratic Party’s candidate — won South Korea’s presidential elections. He took office after several months of ...

Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s recent visit to three Southeast Asian countries drew widespread headlines — not only for diplomatic pageantry but also for its ...

Turkey’s Cataclysm, 2013–2017 Amidst the violence that engulfed the region, it is easy to forget just how much turmoil Turkey experienced. All of what follows happened in Turkey during the five years ...

James Kraska is Charles H. Stockton professor of international law and chair of the Stockton Center for International Law at the U.S. Naval War College and John Harvey Gregory lecturer on world ...

The Peace Dividend Looking back at the defense cuts of the early 1990s with the benefit of hindsight is easy to do, but we should appreciate that the decisions made were rational in the short term ...

David Johnson is a retired Army colonel. He is a principal researcher at the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation and an adjunct scholar at the Modern War Institute at West Point. He is the author ...

Yet while an invasion is the most consequential scenario, we do not think it is the most probable, and treating it as if it is comes at the cost of distraction from the short- and near-term challenges ...

David Johnson August 15, 2022 Commentary Ending the Ideology of the Offense, Part I David Johnson August 15, 2022 We have already stated what defense is — simply the more effective form of war: a ...

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Potential Theories of Victory Drawing from research on strategy and coercion, we identify five potential military theories of victory that are universal to all countries and all conflicts. The first ...