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Pakistan’s Functional Approach to Regulating LAWS

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Published: October 26, 2026 International humanitarian law (IHL) takes an “effect-based” approach to regulating/banning Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems (LAWS). This “outcome-driven,” or result-oriented, approach is based on real-world results of…

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Managing Organizational Risk in Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications (NC3) Modernization

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Published: October 15, 2026 Digital modernization is shaped by numerous interacting variables, including how and why organizations make decisions, leadership preferences, technical considerations, and individual user behavior. System vulnerabilities can…

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North Korea Has Options

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Published: October 12, 2026 In 2017, two people unknowingly working as proxies for North Korean intelligence approached Kim Jong Nam at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport. In what they thought…

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Would Golden Dome Make America Safer?

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Published: October 5, 2026 In February 2022, days after Russian forces crossed into Ukraine, Putin placed his nuclear arsenal on high alert and warned that any nation interfering would face…

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The Political Power Battle in Tehran

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Published: October 1, 2026 As Iran signals its willingness to pursue fighting, one of the most important power struggles to watch in the Middle East today is not between Iran…

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Iran Shows Why Nuclear Deterrence Still Matters

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Published: September 29, 2026 The 2026 United States’ war against Iran is a matter of international and domestic political controversy. Regardless of its outcome, the trajectory already suggests important lessons…

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Turkey, Israel and the Dangerous Vacuum in Post-Assad Syria

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Published: September 7, 2026 The strikes at Abu al-Duhur matter less for what happened than for what they revealed. Strip away the incident report and what is left is familiar…

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Why the Middle East Needs a New Collective Defense Arrangement After the Iran War

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Published: September 1, 2026 The Iran War may eventually end through a ceasefire, an interim agreement, or a broader diplomatic settlement. Regardless of how the fighting stops, one thing has become impossible to ignore.…

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Beyond Arms Control: Australia, Britain, and America Need Ambassadors for Strategic Deterrence

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Published: August 24, 2026 For more than three decades, the diplomatic priorities of Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States have reflected the optimism of the post-Cold War era. Arms control,…

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

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

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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…