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Archive, Defense & Security, Deterrence & Foreign Policy, Strategic Adversariesadversary, AI-enabled systems, assurance claim, autonomous systems, BEA, Bureau of Economic Analysis, cascading failures, CISA, continuity costs, continuity plan, continuity planning, continuity target, critical infrastructure, Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Agency, cross-sector scenarios, denial, dependency structure, Deterrence, disruption, dynamic resilience, electric power, empirical testing, Federal Continuity Directive 2, Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, governance, inoperability, input-output accounts, interconnected systems, interdependence model, mission essential functions, National Critical Functions, National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST, NIST SP 800-82, operational data, operational parameters, recovery rates, service floors, systemic damage, systemic loss, telecommunications

Resilience Never Activated, Deters No One

Burak Oktenli0 Comments

Published: September 28, 2026 Deterrence by denial rests on a practical promise. An attack on a state’s infrastructure will not produce the effect an adversary expects. Resilience contributes to that…

Archive, Strategic Adversariesalliance structures, anti-access/area denial, Asia-Pacific, Attrition, civilian protection, counter-drone, deep strike, Deterrence, drone warfare, electronic warfare, escalation, humanitarian impact, ISR (Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance), logistics, maritime theater, Military Strategy, non-state actors, operational environment, proliferation safeguards, reconnaissance, regional stability, resilience, secure communications, technology transfer

Exporting Ukraine’s Lessons: The Risks of Transferring the Wrong Lessons to the Asia-Pacific

Andrey Koval0 Comments

Published: September 15, 2026 Having observed the war from within the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, one is struck by two simultaneous situations: the extraordinary tactical adaptation…

Archive, Strategic Adversariesambiguity, command and control, conventional forces, crisis management, crisis stability, Deterrence, DF-26, dual-capable missiles, entanglement, escalation risk, inadvertent escalation, Indo-Pacific, International Security, military intelligence, Military Strategy, missile notifications, No First Use Policy, nuclear escalation, nuclear threshold, nuclear-conventional ambiguity, PLARF, risk reduction, security dilemma, signaling, strategic competition, strategic stability, Survivability, targeting, transparency, U.S.-China relations

China’s Dual-Capable Missiles and Inadvertent Nuclear Escalation

Peyton Mayer0 Comments

Published: September 14, 2026 China's expanding force of dual-capable missiles is creating a growing source of ambiguity in U.S.-China deterrence. The People's Liberation Army Rocket Force (PLARF) operates conventional and…

Archive, Arms Control & Nonproliferation, Strategic Adversariesair and missile defense, conventional military integration, Deterrence, extended deterrence, Gulf States, integrated intelligence, integrated missile defense, interoperability, Iran war, Israel, maritime security, Middle East, missile and drone attacks, nuclear umbrella, proliferation, radar and sensor networks, regional stability, security architecture, strategic consultation

Why the Middle East Needs a New Collective Defense Arrangement After the Iran War

Natalie Treloar0 Comments

Published: September 1, 2026 The Iran War may eventually end through a ceasefire, an interim agreement, or a broader diplomatic settlement. Regardless of how the fighting stops, one thing has become impossible to ignore.…

Archive, Strategic Adversariesalliance management, Atlantic Council, ballistic missiles, bilateral plan, continuity of government, counter-drone defense, cruise missiles, Cyberattacks, decoys, Deterrence, deterrence through resilience, drones, East Asian security., escalation, GPS jamming, Guardian Tiger, haystack attack, Hypersonic Weapons, interceptor magazine, KAMD, kill-chain, KMPR, KN-23, KN-24, launch ecosystem, limited nuclear-use strategy, MIRV, missile defense, North Korea, nuclear arsenal, nuclear doctrine, preemptive nuclear use, resilience, solid-fuel ICBM, South Korea, tactical nuclear warheads, Taiwan conflict, Three-Axis System, US-ROK alliance

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…

Archive, Deterrence & Foreign Policy, Emerging Threats, Strategic Adversariesasymmetric leverage, Bab el-Mandeb, ballistic missiles, Basij, capturing its core themes and entities: Iran, ceasefire, Deterrence, drones, GCC, houthis, IRGC, managed conflict, maritime security, negotiations, nuclear program, proxy warfare, red sea, regional instability, sanctions, Strait of Hormuz

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, Emerging Threats, Strategic AdversariesAI-assisted monitoring, Arms Control, Arms Race, black market, blockchain, China, Deterrence, Diplomacy, Egypt, enforcement, Great Power Competition, IAEA, International Atomic Energy Agency, Israel, JCPOA, Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, maritime trade, Middle East, military cooperation, nonproliferation, NPT, nuclear hedging, nuclear latency, nuclear materials, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, nuclear program, Nuclear Weapons, nuclear-weapons-free zone, oil prices, Operation Epic Fury, political realignment., post-conflict innovation, proliferation, regional security, regional security architecture., remote sensing, Russia, sanctions, Saudi Arabia, Strait of Hormuz, transparency, Turkey, UN Security Council, United States, verification

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…

Archive, Strategic Adversariesarms sales, Beijing Summit, China, constructive strategic stability, cross-strait relations, Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), Deterrence, Indo-Pacific, Kuomintang (KMT), Lai Ching-te, Marco Rubio, military modernization, security commitments, strategic ambiguity, Taiwan Strait, trade negotiations, transactional diplomacy, Unification, United States

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.…

Allies & Extended Deterrence, Archive, Deterrence & Foreign Policy, Emerging Threatsalliance security, American nuclear umbrella, Article 6, assured destruction, British arsenal, burden sharing, China, cold war, conventional defense, conventional forces, crisis stability, Defense Spending, Deterrence, escalation management, European defense, extended deterrence, flexible response, forward deterrence, France, French arsenal, global security, high-yield nuclear weapons, interoperability, low-yield nuclear weapons, massive retaliation, military growth, NATO 3.0, NATO allies, North Korea, nuclear arsenal, nuclear capability, nuclear guarantor, nuclear posture, Nuclear Weapons, Poland, Russia, Russian stockpile, strategic partner, strategic stability, theater warfighting, transatlantic alliance, U.S. strategic recalibration

NATO 3.0 and the Nuclear Arsenal It Requires

Curtis McGiffin0 Comments

Published: July 6, 2026 Contemporary disagreements between the U.S. and its NATO allies have intensified over political, economic, and security issues. Disputes over trade, tariffs, defense spending, and expeditionary support reveal an unhealthy frustration with burden-sharing demands and…

Archive, Defense & Security, Economics & Trade, Emerging Threats, Government & PoliticsAegean Sea, Blue Homeland doctrine, Deterrence, eastern Mediterranean, EastMed pipeline, energy resources, Exclusive Economic Zone, geopolitical competition, geopolitical realism, geopolitical strategies, Greece, international law, international waters, Islands, islets, Lausanne Treaty, legal framework, legal frameworks, Libya, maritime delimitation, maritime jurisdiction, maritime strategy, militarization, natural gas, Paris Treaty, regional balance of power. , regional security, revisionism, rocks, security architecture, security vacuum, sovereignty, territorial waters, Turkish parliament, United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

Redrawn Boundaries in the Eastern Mediterranean: Türkiye’s New Legal Moves

Nazım Fatsa0 Comments

Published: June 29, 2026 An Exclusive Economic Zone does not grant absolute territorial sovereignty to a coastal state. However, it secures the exclusive rights of a coastal state to explore…

Archive, Defense & Security, Economics & Trade, Emerging Threats, Strategic Adversariesanti-corruption enforcement, compromised elites, criminal organizations, cyber-enabled corruption, Deterrence, Disinformation campaigns, external rivals, foreign influence, fragmented sovereignty, geopolitical leverage, governance, Hybrid Warfare, illicit financial systems, influence operations, infrastructure dependence, infrastructure financing, institutional erosion, institutional resilience, investigative journalism, judicial independence, lobbying networks, military power, National Security, offshore finance, organized crime, patronage networks, political resilience, procurement oversight, public trust, regulatory oversight, sanction evasion, strategic investments, strategic stability, transparency

Strategic Corruption and the Future of Hybrid Warfare

Jeffery A. Tobin0 Comments

Published: June 23, 2026 During the Cold War, deterrence centered on missiles, troop deployments, and nuclear escalation. Military power still matters enormously, but modern strategic competition increasingly unfolds far from conventional battlefields. Rival states…