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Can Trilateral Diplomacy Secure Pakistan from Terrorism?

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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Deterring Nuclear Terrorism in the Era of Great Power Competition

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

Allies & Extended Deterrence, Archive, Strategic Adversariesalliance, bombers, China, coercion, conventional, credibility, crisis, Deterrence, escalation, escalation scenarios, extended deterrence, Guardian Tiger, Indo-Pacific, Japan, missile defense, North Korea, nuclear, nuclear threshold, nuclear umbrella, preemptive, proliferation, retaliation, signaling, South Korea, strategic, strike, submarines, tactical, Taiwan, United States

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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It Is Time to Test Again

Allies & Extended Deterrence, Archive, Arms Control & Nonproliferation, Emerging Threats, Strategic Adversariesadversary behavior, Arms Control, China, deeply buried targets, Deterrence, firing systems, geopolitical developments, high explosives, hypersonic delivery, life-extension programs, Limited Test Ban Treaty, low-yield test, moratorium, Nevada test sites, new warhead designs, nonproliferation norms, novel nuclear systems, nuclear arsenal, nuclear testing, nuclear-armed adversary, plutonium pits, policy shift, radioactive containment, Russia, safety, Stockpile Stewardship Program, strategic behavior, strategic surprise, technical challenges, testing infrastructure, Threshold Test Ban Treaty, warhead reliability

It Is Time to Test Again

James Ragland & Joel Karasik0 Comments

The United States has observed a moratorium on nuclear explosive testing since 1992, relying instead on the Stockpile Stewardship Program in place of full-scale detonations to ensure the safety, security,…

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The Quiet Dismantling of America’s AI Warfighting Edge

AI & Deterrence, Archive, Government & Politics, Strategic Adversariesadvanced technologies, adversaries, AI, AI fellowships, AI warfare, algorithmic assessments, Arms Race, battlefield innovations, battlefield losses, CDAO, Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office, Chief Technology Officer, China, cost-cutting, CTO, Department of Government Efficiency, Digital Corps, DOGE, efficiency mandates, global AI dominance, innovation, institutional memory, interoperability, Leadership, Military Technology, National Security, propaganda, readiness, recruitment, reform, retention, Russia, siloed projects, STEM professionals, strategic deterrence, techno-authoritarianism, technological coherence, technologists, US Department of Defense, wargames

The Quiet Dismantling of America’s AI Warfighting Edge

Greg Sharpe0 Comments

Amid the global artificial intelligence (AI) arms race, elite adversaries such as China and Russia are actively strengthening their military tech structures without any barriers from their government. They are…

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America’s Silent Shield: How Domestic Strength Sustains Nuclear Power

Archive, Arms Control & Nonproliferation, Defense & Security, Strategic Adversariesadversaries, allies, America, American, americans, budgets, challenge, China, cohesion, control, credibility, critical, defense, Deterrence, deterrent, domestic, economic, front, global, health, home, nation, national, nuclear, political, power, Prosperity, prosperous, Russia, security, shield, silent, social, societal, society, states, stealth, strategic, strength, Triad, trust, unified, united, well-being, world

America’s Silent Shield: How Domestic Strength Sustains Nuclear Power

Brandon Toliver0 Comments

When Americans picture national security, they conjure images of hypersonic missiles, stealth bombers, and aircraft carriers patrolling global hotspots. They measure strength in megatons and defense budgets. Yet, the most…

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The Campaign to End Nuclear Deterrence

Allies & Extended Deterrence, Archive, Arms Control & Nonproliferation, Defense & SecurityCampaign, China, civilian populations, commander in chief, deterrence credibility, deterrence strategy, disarmament campaign, extended deterrence, hair trigger alert, Human Security Lab, impetuous, Law of War Manual, legality, NFU strategy, No First Use, nuclear abolitionists, Nuclear Deterrence, nuclear modernization, Nuclear Weapons, Peter Huessy, president's authority, recklessness, Russia, sole authority, targeting cities, United Nations treaty, University of Massachusetts

The Campaign to End Nuclear Deterrence

Peter Huessy0 Comments

The campaign to prevent the US from deploying nuclear weapons as a deterrent is in full swing. It expanded from opposing the first use of nuclear weapons to opposing all…

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China’s Support for the Southeast Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone

Archive, Arms Control & Nonproliferation, Bonus Reads, Strategic AdversariesArms Control, ASEAN, Bangkok Treaty, China, cooperative security, disarmament, geopolitical tensions, global nonproliferation, global security, INF, Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty, international law, multipolar world, National Security Agency, Negative Security Assurances, New START, nonproliferation, norm-setting, nuclear abstention, Nuclear Deterrence, nuclear diplomacy, nuclear modernization, nuclear threats, Nuclear Weapons, proliferation, regional agreements, regional stability, SEANWFZ, South China Sea, Southeast Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone, strategic ambiguity, Strategic Arms Reduction Agreement

China’s Support for the Southeast Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone

Nazia Sheikh0 Comments

The recent decision by China to sign the Southeast Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone (SEANWFZ) treaty marked a significant shift in regional nuclear diplomacy and a positive step for nonproliferation and arms…

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Tech-centric Partnership in the Indo-Pacific to Deter Digital Curtain

AI & Deterrence, Archive, Strategic AdversariesAbrar Rahman Namir. , Advanced Persistent Threat (APT), American Strategic Interests, ASEAN, asymmetric capabilities, China, Critical and Emerging Technology, critical infrastructure, Cyber Coercion, Cyber Espionage, Cyber Incidents, Cyberspace, Democracies, Digital Age, Digital Curtain, Digital Enforcement Body, Digital Silk Road, Disinformation campaigns, Economic Security, Free and Open Indo-Pacific, Geopolitical Significance, Gray Zone Tactics, Great Power Competition, Indo-Pacific, Indo-Pacific Partnership for Maritime Domain Awareness (IPMDA), Maritime Initiative for Training in the Indo-Pacific (MAITRI), maritime security, Pacific Island Forum, Quad Cyber Challenge, Quad Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, Quad Partnership on Cable Connectivity and Resilience, Regional Partners, resource allocation, Specialized Workers, Strategic Inertia, Tech-centric Partnership, technological advancements, Technology-enabled Authoritarianism, Telecommunications Infrastructure, Undersea Cables, United States, Volt Typhoon

Tech-centric Partnership in the Indo-Pacific to Deter Digital Curtain

Abrar Rahman Namir0 Comments

From Pakistan in the Indian Ocean to Kiribati in Oceania, a digital curtain is falling across the Indo-Pacific. Various actors are leveraging cyberspace and technological advancements to implement an alternative…

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Invest, Don’t Spend, Peace Dividends

Archive, Arms Control & Nonproliferation, Defense & Security, Government & Politics, Strategic Adversariesaerospace industry, Arms Control Deals, B-52, China, Columbia-class submarine, command-and-control systems, Conventional Forces Europe Treaty, defense budget, Defense Spending, deterrence studies , Hard Sciences, ICBM, INF Treaty, Invest, Military Advances, Minuteman III, Modernization Shortfalls, Nation Building, nuclear forces, nuclear modernization, Ohio-class submarines, Peace Dividends, Peacekeeper Production Line, Procurement Holiday, Readiness Shortfalls, Reagan Economic War, Roger Wicker, Russia, Senate Armed Services Committee, Sentinel ICBM, Soviet Union, START Treaties, Workforce Shortage

Invest, Don’t Spend, Peace Dividends

Peter Huessy0 Comments

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, it was assumed that the US no longer needed a robust defense budget. As a result, the nation went on what Lt. Gen.…

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Why the Houthi Threat Persists

Archive, Bonus Reads, Emerging Threats, Strategic Adversariesasymmetric warfare, China, counterintelligence, covert operations, cruise missiles, defense and security. , drones, economic impact, geography, global trade routes, Gulf of Aden, Houthi threat, human intelligence, hybrid strategies, intelligence dynamics, Iran, land operations, maritime corridors, maritime security, mini-lateral coalitions, multilateral limitations, naval power, proxy conflict, psychological impact, red sea, regional partnerships, Russia, sea mines, sovereignty concerns, transnational intelligence, Yemen

Why the Houthi Threat Persists

Mohamed ELDoh0 Comments

Despite months of high-profile naval deployments by the United States and its European allies, Yemen’s Houthi movement launched disruptive attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea and the Gulf…

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Results in Iran

Archive, Arms Control & Nonproliferation, Bonus Reads, Strategic AdversariesAtoms for Peace, Ayatollah Khamenei, battle damage assessment, Benjamin Netanyahu, China, Darius the Great, Deterrence, Dmitry Medvedev, enriched uranium, Fordow, GBU-57, IAEA, international relations, Iran, Isfahan, Israel, Masoud Pezeshkian, Natanz, North Korea, nuclear facilities, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, nuclear scientists, Nuclear Weapons, regime change, Revolutionary Guard Corps, Russia, stealth bombers, Twelve Day War, United States, Vladimir Putin

Results in Iran

Sam Stanton, PhD0 Comments

In the early morning hours of June 22, 2025, American aircraft engaged in direct operations against three Iranian nuclear facilities: Natanz, Fordow, and Isfahan. These attacks involved 125 aircraft and…

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