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Allies & Extended Deterrence, Archive, Arms Control & Nonproliferation, Strategic Adversaries10-year supply agreement, 100 gigawatts by 2047, 100 million pounds uranium, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, bilateral trade $30B by 2030, Cameco Corporation, CANDU Owners Group, CIRUS reactor, clean energy objectives, coal and crude oil dependence, Dhruva reactor, diplomatic expulsions, dual-use risk, G20 Summit (Johannesburg 2025), Hardeep Singh Nijjar killing, India energy demand, India–Canada relations, military diversion concerns, non-proliferation double standards., Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), nuclear arsenal growth, nuclear power expansion, Nuclear Supplier’s Group, pressurized heavy-water reactors, reprocessing expertise, safeguards, small modular reactors (SMRs), Smiling Buddha (1974), South Asia stability, thorium reserves, three-stage nuclear program, uranium export deal, weapons-grade plutonium

India and Canada Thaw Frosty Relationship to Push Uranium Deal

Musavir Hameed Barech0 Comments

At the sidelines of the G20 Summit held in late November 2025 in Johannesburg, South Africa, the Prime Ministers of Canada and India agreed to enhance bilateral relations amid recent…

Allies & Extended Deterrence, Archive, Arms Control & Nonproliferation, Strategic AdversariesAir-LORA, BrahMos, conventional-nuclear threshold, deep strikes, Deterrence, escalation dominance, escalation ladder, full-spectrum deterrence, India, Indian Air Force (IAF), J-10C, long-range air-to-surface missiles, LR-ASM, May 2025 war, Military Doctrine, Mirage-2000, Pakistan, Pakistani air defence zones, PL-15, quid-pro-quo-plus (QPQP), Rafale, Rampage missiles, SCALP/Storm Shadow, stand-off capability

India’s Push for Long Range Air-to-Surface Missiles

Abdul Wassay0 Comments

India’s accelerating induction and expansion of long-range air-to-surface missiles (LR-ASM) into its conventional stockpile marks a shift in its military doctrine after the May 2025 war with Pakistan. While Indian…

Allies & Extended Deterrence, Archive, Arms Control & Nonproliferation, Deterrence & Foreign Policy, Government & Politics, Strategic Adversariesalliance design, burden sharing, credibility, defense investment, Deterrence, energy sovereignty, escalation anxiety, escalation management, European dependence, forward defense, high-intensity war, industrial capacity, NATO, Nord Stream, realism, regional deterrence, Russia invasion, Russian hydrocarbons, shared risk, strategic correction, strategic preparation, U.S. leadership, Ukraine, under-resourcing, Western assumptions

Ukraine and the Failure of Western Assumptions

Kirk Fansher0 Comments

Ukraine did not just resist invasion; it shattered Western assumptions. In the weeks leading up to Russia’s 2022 invasion, the dominant view across Europe and the United States was that…

Allies & Extended Deterrence, Archive, Arms Control & Nonproliferation, Strategic Adversariesair and missile defense, Arctic, Chagos Archipelago, China, collective defense, Defense Greenland Agreement, Denmark, Deterrence, Diego Garcia, Donald Trump, early-warning architecture, fifth-generation airpower, GIUK Gap, Greenland, maritime and subsurface awareness, Mauritius, missile-warning infrastructure, NATO, NATO Article 3, Pituffik (Thule) Air/Space Base, power projection, rules-based international order, Russia, sovereignty, strategic autonomy

Can Denmark Defend Greenland from Trump?

Kirk Fansher & Curtis McGiffin1 Comment

The renewed attention on Greenland did not begin with Arctic ice melt or the quest for rare earth minerals. It began with discomfort, specifically, American discomfort with a long-standing European…

Allies & Extended Deterrence, Archive, Arms Control & Nonproliferation, Strategic Adversaries“New Era” leadership, “reform and opening up, ” soft burial, camera obscura, centralized authority, Chinese Communist Party (CCP), collective leadership vs. personalization, Deng Xiaoping legacy, diplomatic signaling, foreign misinterpretation risk, historical narrative management, Hu Yaobang commemoration, ideological control, ideological succession, legitimacy consolidation, loyalty and moral rectitude framing, memory politics, Party education materials, party historiography, policy pluralism constraints, political optics, political psychology, reform discourse co-optation, symbolism and spectacle, Xi Jinping

Xi Jinping’s Political Psychology, Memory, and ‘New Era’ Leadership: ‘Political Optics’ as Camera Obscura in China’s Next Strategic Direction

Jumel G. Estrañero0 Comments

In November 2025, China held a high-profile commemoration for the 110th birthday of Hu Yaobang, a historically liberal Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader. Some international subject matter experts thought it…

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Brilliant Pebbles Can Provide a Real Space-Based Missile Defense for Golden Dome

Matthew Mowthorpe0 Comments

The announcement of Golden Dome in May 2025 has reinvigorated discussions around the often-maligned concept of space-based missile defenses. Ever since President Reagan’s 1983 speech announcing the Strategic Defense Initiative…

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An Iranian Collapse Poses Security Risks for the Azerbaijan Republic

Rufat Ahmedzade0 Comments

Protests in Iran are continuing to escalate. What started as a protest by local traders against the fall in the value of the local currency, rising prices, economic mismanagement, and…

Archive, Arms Control & Nonproliferation, Deterrence & Foreign Policy, Strategic Adversariesalliance cohesion, alliance-level exercises, capability demonstration, coercive leverage, compressed decision timelines, conventional vs nuclear deterrence, crisis decision-making, Deterrence, deterrence by denial, deterrence by punishment, distributed command and control, dual-use ambiguity, escalation management, European security guarantees, Hypersonic tensions, Hypersonic Weapons, integrated air and missile defense, integrated deterrence, interception challenges, Lviv, Mach 10, miscalculation risk, missile defense architectures, NATO, Oreshnik missile, Poland, resilience, Russia, strategic signaling, U.S. National Defense Strategy, Ukraine, warning time collapse

The Conversation Europe Never Wanted: Hypersonic Tensions and U.S. Defense Strategy

Brandon Toliver4 Comments

Picture a late-night briefing room in Europe. Screens glow. A map of western Ukraine fills the wall. A red arc appears, moving faster than anything else in the inventory of…

Allies & Extended Deterrence, Archive, Arms Control & Nonproliferation, Deterrence & Foreign Policy, Strategic Adversariesacknowledge vs recognize, Article 8 Potsdam, Cairo Declaration (1943), China–Japan relations, Deterrence, diplomatic language, false narratives, Indo-Pacific security, international law, international neutrality, Japan–China Joint Communiqué (1972), Japan–Taiwan policy, One China Policy, People’s Republic of China (PRC), postwar treaties, Potsdam Declaration (1945), psychological warfare, Republic of China (ROC), San Francisco Peace Treaty (1951), Sanae Takaichi, sovereignty, strategic ambiguity, Taiwan status, Taiwan Strait, Treaty of Shimonoseki (1895), U.S.–PRC Joint Communiqué (1979), unresolved status of Taiwan

Not Part of China: An Explanation of Japan’s Taiwan Policy

Lindell Lucy0 Comments

On December 3, Hong Kong’s main English newspaper, The South China Morning Post, posted on the social media website X, “Breaking: Japan’s Sanae Takaichi reaffirms Taiwan is a part of…

AI & Deterrence, Archive, Arms Control & Nonproliferation, Economics & Trade, Emerging Threats, Space Deterrence & Conflict, Strategic Adversaries2025 National Security Strategy, artificial intelligence, Cislunar Security, Critical Materials, defense industrial base, Deterrence, Disruptive Industries, Economic Security, export controls, Indo-Pacific, industrial base, Industrial Policy, Manufacturing Capacity, Military Strategy, mobilization, national resilience, reindustrialization, Reshoring, space superiority, Spheres of Influence, Strategic Technologies, supply chains, Technological Leadership, Western hemisphere

Techno-Economic power at the heart of the 2025 U.S. National Security Strategy

Christophe Bosquillon0 Comments

The 2025 U.S. National Security Strategy (NSS) dropped on December 4th. The Secretary of War said: “Out with utopian idealism, in with hard-nosed realism.” The NSS could even further be translated…

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The AI Revolution’s Outsized Impact on Deterrence

Robert Kittinger0 Comments

The impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on national security at large and deterrence specifically cannot be overstated. The business leaders competing in the field of AI, like Sam Altman, Elon…