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No Treaty, No Panic: Deterrence and Stability After New START

Curtis McGiffin0 Comments

The expiration of the New START Treaty on February 5, 2026 has fueled concerns that, absent formal limits, uncertainty surrounding U.S. and Russian nuclear forces could generate instability and elevate…

AI & Deterrence, Archive, Deterrence & Foreign Policy, Strategic AdversariesAI, AI–HUMINT fusion, automated analysis, big data, CMS, cyber technologies, cyber-attacks, data exfiltration, espionage, false information, HUMINT, India, Intelligence, ISI, NADRA, NATGRID, nuclearized, Pakistan, Pegasus spyware, political profiling, RAW, Safe City projects, South Asia, strategic vulnerabilities, surveillance, Terrorism

The Intelligence Illusion: How AI is Exposing Strategic Vulnerabilities in the Developing World

Tahir Mahmood Azad0 Comments

For decades, intelligence agencies in developing countries, especially in South Asia, have been portrayed as all-knowing, all-seeing, and deeply involved in every part of politics and security. Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence…

Allies & Extended Deterrence, Archive, Arms Control & Nonproliferation, Deterrence & Foreign Policy, Strategic AdversariesAegis destroyers, Aegis System Equipped Vessels (ASEVs), attribution ambiguity, azimuth diversity, ballistic missile crisis, boost phase tracking, compressed decision-making, early warning delay, forward deployment, Ground-Based Interceptors (GBIs), intercept geometry, Japan–U.S. alliance, layered defense architecture, maritime-based ballistic missile defense, midcourse interception, nuclear-powered submarine (SSN), Sea of Japan launch scenario, SLBM, SM-3 Block IIA, SM-3 interceptor, South Korea–U.S. alliance, SPY-7 radar, Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile, trilateral missile alert mechanisms, U.S. homeland missile defense

Fixing the House of Dynamite – An SLBM Crisis in East Asia

Ju Hyung Kim0 Comments

Netflix’s The House of Dynamite dramatizes a nightmarish scenario that feels uncomfortably plausible. An unidentified ballistic missile appears mid-flight over the Pacific, while the time for decision-making is compressed and…

Allies & Extended Deterrence, Archive, Arms Control & Nonproliferation, Deterrence & Foreign Policy, Emerging Threats, Strategic AdversariesArms Control, Article VI disarmament obligations, artificial intelligence-enabled command systems, centrifuges, Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), data sharing, diplomatic strain, Fordow facility, Hwasong-20 missile, hypersonic delivery vehicles, ICBMs, inspection regime, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Iran nuclear program, MIRVs, missile factories, modernization, multipolar competition, New start treaty, North Korea nuclear development, NPT Review Conference, nuclear alert status, nuclear arsenals, Nuclear Deterrence, nuclear threshold lowering, Nuclear Weapons, treaty expiration, Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), U.S.-Russia strategic stability, Ukraine conflict, unintended escalation, uranium enrichment, verification mechanisms, Yongbyon facility

The Dawn of 2026 and Challenges to Non-Proliferation

Harsa Kakar1 Comment

The year 2026 arrives with looming threats of nuclear weapon employment more than ever, as the world is faced with eroding arms control agreements and the global environment seems increasingly…

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…