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Iran’s Missile-Drone Campaign and Its Implications for the United States’ Deterrence

Archive, Arms Control & Nonproliferation, Defense & Security, Deterrence & Foreign Policy, Strategic AdversariesAir Defense, air superiority, alliance management, Arms Control, asymmetric capabilities, Attrition, ballistic missiles, Campaign, China, cost-effective interception, cost-exchange dilemma, crisis stability, cruise missiles, defensive inventories, Deterrence, Diplomacy, directed energy, directed energy weapons, Doctrine, drone, electronic warfare, extended deterrence, Golden Dome, Indo-Pacific, Iran, Iron Dome, Middle East, missile, non-state actors, nonproliferation, Patriot, precision strike, procurement, proliferation, resource allocation, Russia, saturation attacks, South Asia, strategic adaptation, strategic attrition, THAAD, United States, unmanned aerial systems

Iran’s Missile-Drone Campaign and Its Implications for the United States’ Deterrence

Tahir Mahmood Azad0 Comments

Published: April 16, 2026 The ongoing conflict involving Iran, the United States, and Israel has produced one of the most significant case studies in the evolution of contemporary warfare. Iran,…

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Beyond New START: Prospects for U.S.–Russian Nuclear Arms Control

Archive, Arms Control & Nonproliferation, Deterrence & Foreign Policy, Strategic AdversariesChina, crisis stability, crisis-management mechanisms, data exchanges, Great Power Competition, hypersonic glide vehicles, inspections, long-range conventional strike, missile defenses, modular agreements, non-strategic nuclear weapons, nonproliferation regime, nuclear-powered cruise missiles, One moment, political commitments, strategic stability, transparency, trilateral frameworks, U.S.–Russian nuclear arms control, verification, working through the calculations for this response in more detail.New START

Beyond New START: Prospects for U.S.–Russian Nuclear Arms Control

Stephen Cimbala0 Comments

Published: April 14, 2026 For more than half a century, U.S.–Russian nuclear arms control has served as a central mechanism for managing strategic competition. Beginning with the 1972 Strategic Arms…

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The Russia-Ukraine Conflict Showcases the Limits of Nuclear Deterrence

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The Russia-Ukraine Conflict Showcases the Limits of Nuclear Deterrence

Anshu Kumar0 Comments

Russia’s potential use of nuclear weapons early in the Ukraine conflict presents an interesting dilemma. For many analysts, this conflict exemplifies the limits of nuclear deterrence, an issue worth exploring.…

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