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When Japan’s Hedging Meets Türkiye’s Identity Politics: India Feels the Strain

Yashwant Singh 0 Comments

Published: August 18, 2026 Japan may cultivate Türkiye as a “secondary strategic pillar,” raising a deeper question about whether such hedging is compatible with the long‑term partnership India expects out of Japan. The…

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The Blind Spot of Integrated Deterrence: Modern Defense Tech Requires a Counterintelligence Revival

Joshua Thibert0 Comments

Published: August 17, 2026 The foundational calculus of international security is undergoing a radical and technologically driven transformation. In the Pentagon’s latest strategic guidance, the traditional concept of deterrence has…

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Beyond the Body Count: Will Robotics Change the Grammar of War?

Matthew Fecteau0 Comments

Published: August 11, 2026 Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming warfare, but whether it is changing it for the better remains unsettled. AI-enabled systems can improve surveillance, targeting, defensive response, and force protection.…

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North Korea’s Emerging Limited Nuclear-Use Strategy

Ju Hyung Kim0 Comments

Published: August 10, 2926 North Korea’s expanding nuclear arsenal is changing more than just the amount of destruction Pyongyang could inflict. This may be altering the North Korean leadership’s way of calculating…

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Space: The Ungoverned Orbit

Muneeb Ur Rahman0 Comments

Published: August 3, 2026 Under the 1967 United Nations Outer Space Treaty, states recognize that the exploration and use of outer space should be carried out for peaceful purposes, for…

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Iran’s Strategic Logic of Instability

Mohamed ELDoh0 Comments

Published: July 31, 2026 The previously concluded and now cancelled US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) revealed a paradox at the heart of the Middle East security landscape. Both sides have…

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Space Fortitude: Applying the Lessons of Operation Fortitude to Space Deterrence and Warfighting

Christopher Stone0 Comments

Published: July 28, 2026 Throughout military history, few deception operations have rivaled the strategic brilliance of Operation Fortitude. Conducted before the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944, Fortitude did not seek to…

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The Impossibility of Strategic Stability in a Multipolar Era: From Brittle Walls to Dynamic Resilience

Natalie Treloar & Jean-Claude Meledje0 Comments

Published: July 27, 2026 For over a century, the primary objective of global diplomacy has been the pursuit of “stability.” From the Concert of Europe through the bipolar rigidity of the Cold War, stability was…

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Allied Autonomy Is Creating a New Seam in Extended Deterrence

Burak Oktenli0 Comments

Published: July 23, 2026 In February 2026, more than 200 personnel from Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States gathered on Australia's east coast for the latest AUKUS Maritime Big…

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The United States Did Not Lose the War Against Iran: The Harder Part is Postwar Peacemaking

Stephen Cimbala1 Comment

Published: July 21, 2026 Recently, it has become fashionable in news commentary and in political pronouncements by members of Congress, among others, to claim that the United States’ conflict with…

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NATO’s Sentry Operations Show Why the Indo-Pacific Needs a Nuclear Alliance

Natalie Treloar0 Comments

Published: July 20, 2026 NATO’s recent establishment of Baltic Sentry (2025), Eastern Sentry (2025), and Arctic Sentry (2026) reflects more than a response to Russian aggression. Collectively, these operations demonstrate…