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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…

Archive, Defense & Security, Deterrence & Foreign Policy, Strategic Adversariesaccountability, air superiority, analysts, anti-drone, automated ships, autonomous networks, autonomous systems, casualty-exchange ratios, Clausewitz, combat power, command structures, communications specialists, computing capacity, cost-exchange, counter-missile, decoys, defense, defensive capabilities, Doctrine, domestic politics, drones, electronic warfare, energy reserves, force protection, front line, geopolitical actors, grammar of war, hardware attrition, humanitarian gain, industrial base, information sharing, institutional competence, integration, Iron Dome, kinetic attacks, logisticians, logistics, loitering munitions, maintainers, manufacturing speed, market dynamics, missiles, multi-domain operations, Offensive Capabilities, Operation Epic Fury, operational footprint, operators, political aims, political barrier, rescue operation, risk distribution., robotic logistics, robotics, semiconductor supply chain, sensor fusion, software agility, strategic failure, supply chains, support personnel, support troops, surveillance, targeting, technical revolution, underwater systems, unmanned aircraft, unmanned surface vessel, warfare

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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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…

Archive, Arms Control & Nonproliferation, Bonus Reads, Deterrence & Foreign Policy, Emerging Threats, Space Deterrence & Conflict, Strategic Adversariesanti-satellite weapons, Chinese military thought, cognitive superiority, cyber deception, damage limitation, decision-cycle maneuver, decoy satellites, distributed architectures, electromagnetic deception, electromagnetic signatures, information deception, integrated interagency planning, offensive counterspace capabilities, rapid reconstitution, space deterrence, space maneuver warfare, strategic culture, strategic deception, systems confrontation

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…

Allies & Extended Deterrence, Archive, Arms Control & Nonproliferation, Defense & Security, Economics & Trade, Emerging Threats, Geopolitics in Deterrence, Strategic Adversariesagility, alliance credibility, Australia, bilateral deterrence, cascading effects, China, competitive advantage, dynamic resilience, economic dependence, escalation management, friction engine, geopolitical risk, Indo-Pacific, military modernization, multipolar era, networked deterrence, nonlinear environment, nuclear deterrent, power distribution, security dependence, stability illusion, strategic compression, synthesis, systemic friction, trade interdependence, U.S. extended nuclear deterrence, vulnerability

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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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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The Coming Crisis with North Korea

Nathan A. Heard0 Comments

Published: July 16, 2026 Is North Korea winning? Along with the country’s expanding nuclear arsenal and delivery systems, North Korea continues to develop and demonstrate expertise in cyber and space warfare that soon…

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The Iran War and Nuclear Weapons: Paths Forward or Backward?

Stephen Cimbala0 Comments

Published: July 14, 2026 The announcement of a mid-June 2026 agreement between the United States and Iran on a framework for resolving the conflict that began on February 28 promised immediate relief for…

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The Beijing Summit and The Future of Taiwan-US Relations

Muhammad Shahzad Akram0 Comments

Published: July 13, 2026 The central issue underlying the 2026 Beijing summit was not trade, agriculture, or aircraft purchases, but the future of Taiwan and the evolving structure of U.S.-China relations in the Indo-Pacific.…

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China’s Critical Mineral Strategy and the Structure of Strategic Competition

Holden Johansen1 Comment

Published: July 2, 2026 China's dominance of the rare-earth mineral supply chain gives Beijing a powerful tool of economic coercion against rival states. Vital rare-earth minerals like cobalt, copper, lithium,…