Strategic Adversaries

22

Sep

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Mutually Assured Destruction

Peter Huessy0 Comments

Mutually assured destruction or MAD is not an American doctrine or military strategy. Those who believe MAD is how America deters nuclear-armed adversaries assume that any use of nuclear weapons by the United States…

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21

Sep

Archive, Bonus Reads, Emerging Threats, Space Deterrence & Conflict, Strategic Adversariesanti-satellite, Attrition, B-21 raider, B-52J, China, Cyber, Denmark, Deterrence, Doctrine, electronic warfare, End-to-End Testing, Golden Dome, hypersonic, industrial base, Iran, Kill Chains, long-range strike, missile defense, modernization, multi-domain operations, NATO, Precision Fires, proliferation, resilience, Responsive Launch, Russia, Space, strategic advantage, Survivability, Tactical Edge, Taiwan

This Week in Deterrence (September 15-19, 2025)

GSR Staff0 Comments

This past week was maelstrom of activities in deterrence. We are seeing a shift of the forces reshaping deterrence across domains. Paramount is the urgency of integrating allied doctrine, accelerating…

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16

Sep

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Nuclear Danger Remains in Ukraine Peace Settlement

Stephen Cimbala0 Comments

The Alaska summit between Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin on August 15, 2025, together with the follow-on meetings in Washington, DC, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European heads…

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15

Sep

Allies & Extended Deterrence, Archive, Strategic AdversariesAfghanistan, Beijing, China, CPEC, Diplomacy, diplomatic relations, Durand Line, East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), economic development, Gulf War, Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), Islamic Terrorists, Kabul, Pakistan, Taliban, Terror

Can Trilateral Diplomacy Secure Pakistan from Terrorism?

Qurat-UL-Ain Shabbir0 Comments

Kabul hosted a trilateral conference on August 20, 2025, where delegates from China, Pakistan, and Afghanistan participated. This included China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, Pakistan’s deputy prime minister and foreign…

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11

Sep

Allies & Extended Deterrence, Archive, Arms Control & Nonproliferation, Defense & Security, Deterrence & Foreign Policy, Diplomacy, Emerging Threats, Strategic AdversariesAfghanistan, Arms Control, Atomic, China, cold war, Deterrence, global security, Hezbollah, ICBM, India, Iran, Israel, Japan, Middle East, National Security, Nuclear Deterrence, Nuclear Weapons, Russia, security, Syria, Taliban, Terrorism, Title 22, UN

Deterring Nuclear Terrorism in the Era of Great Power Competition

Alexis Schlotterback0 Comments

As the Cold War ended and new counterterrorism priorities took root in the 2000s, the threat of nuclear terrorism cemented itself as the ultimate catastrophic scenario. Dick Cheney famously stated…

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08

Sep

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A Nuclear Umbrella in Peril: Lessons from North Korea’s Escalation Scenarios

Ju Hyung Kim0 Comments

What happens when the world’s most powerful nuclear arsenal blinks in the face of a nuclear strike? In a recent Atlantic Council “Guardian Tiger” exercise, the United States faced precisely…

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04

Sep

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Failed Deterrence and Misplaced Compellence in Gaza

Justin Leopold-Cohen2 Comments

The October 7, 2023, Hamas surprise attack on Israel proved that Israel’s strategy of deterrence was a failure. After two destructive wars in Gaza, in 2014 and 2021, the hope that…

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02

Sep

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Trump’s Path to an Imperfect Peace in Ukraine

Alan Dowd0 Comments

“You can always count on Americans to do the right thing,” Churchill is credited with saying, “after they’ve tried everything else.” It seems that wry observation may now apply to…

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01

Sep

Strategic Adversariesair defenses, asymmetric hedging, bunker-busting munitions, crash programs, Deterrence, enrichment facilities, Fordow, GBU-57 bombs, global instability, Iran, kinetic counter-proliferation, Midnight Hammer, Miscalculation, Natanz, normative firebreak, nuclear club, nuclear proliferation, operational secrecy, Peter Huessy, preemptive strike, resilience, Stephen Cimbala, strategic risk, underground facilities, US-Israel strikes

How US and Israeli Attacks on Iran Will Reshape the Future of Nuclear Proliferation

Aaron Holland0 Comments

The recent joint US-Israel strikes on Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities mark more than a tactical blow to Tehran, they represent a strategic turning point for nuclear aspirants worldwide. Fourteen GBU-57…

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28

Aug

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Forecasting an Imminent Israeli Strike on Iran

Mohamed ELDoh0 Comments

Multiple converging factors point toward a high probability of a renewed and more expansive Israeli strike against Iran within the coming months, most likely between September and October 7, 2025,…

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26

Aug

Archive, Strategic Adversariesadaptability, aircraft, algorithmic, algorithms, Armenia, asymmetric, Azerbaijan, bandwidth, bayraktar, conventional, Deterrence, drones, escalation, hybrid, innovation, integration, loitering, munitions, precision, proliferation, resilience, retaliation, strategic, superpowers, tactical, visibility, warfare

Drones and the Death of Deterrence: Lessons from Nagorno-Karabakh

Vikramaditya Shrivastava0 Comments

Drones did not change how wars are fought; they changed who can win them. In 2020, Azerbaijan used drones to dismantle Armenia’s defenses in Nagorno-Karabakh with chilling efficiency. Tanks, artillery,…

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