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Deterrence

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

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

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…
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Strategic Corruption and the Future of Hybrid Warfare

Strategic Corruption and the Future of Hybrid Warfare

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…
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Arms Control is No Panacea, But It Helps

Arms Control is No Panacea, But It Helps

Published: June 22, 2026  Some eighty years after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the global community still struggles with the strategic, political, and ethical implications of nuclear arms races.…
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Trump Wants NATO Allies to Step Up-Can France Lead the Way

Trump Wants NATO Allies to Step Up-Can France Lead the Way

Published: June 9, 2026 President Donald Trump has repeatedly criticized U.S. European allies for their alleged failure to assume a larger share of the responsibility for NATO deterrence and defense.…
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Russian Nuclear Deterrence and the Ghost of Stalin

Russian Nuclear Deterrence and the Ghost of Stalin

Published: June 5, 2026 Russia’s nuclear strategy occupies a central place in global security debates. With the world’s largest and most diverse nuclear arsenal and a leadership that frequently employs nuclear rhetoric, Russia’s approach…
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Turkey’s ICBM: Ambition for Autonomy

Turkey’s ICBM: Ambition for Autonomy

Published: May 26, 2026 At the recent SAHA Expo 2026, Turkey unveiled a mock-up of the Yildirimhan (Thunderbolt) and released details about the long-range, four-engined, liquid-fueled ballistic missile. The designation…
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The Halls of Ivy and National Defense

The Halls of Ivy and National Defense

Published: May 19, 2026 The relationship between the federal government and American universities is tense and often misunderstood. The gap between the purposes and priorities of government, on one side,…
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Quiet Warfare: Bending Data and Perceptions in the Defense Industrial Base

Quiet Warfare: Bending Data and Perceptions in the Defense Industrial Base

Published: May 14, 2026 Artificial intelligence is quietly redrawing the front lines of national security, and the United States’ Defense Industrial Base (DIB) now sits in the crosshairs of a…
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A Counterintelligence Profile: Are High-Fliers Ready?

A Counterintelligence Profile: Are High-Fliers Ready?

Published: May 7, 2026 For the geopolitics of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), it is a time of great anxiety. With the non-Arab actors engaging in another tense…
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Trumping NATO

Trumping NATO

Published: April 28, 2026 Amid U.S. involvement in a war against Iran, President Donald J. Trump has decided to double down on previous public expressions of disregard and distrust toward…
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Iran’s Missile-Drone Campaign and Its Implications for the United States’ Deterrence

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

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 a Pacific Defense Pact 4: Blueprint for an Indo-Pacific Nuclear Alliance

Beyond a Pacific Defense Pact 4: Blueprint for an Indo-Pacific Nuclear Alliance

Published: April 9, 2026 The Indo-Pacific is rapidly emerging as the central theatre of global strategic competition. Unlike the Cold War in Europe, where nuclear deterrence involved two superpowers across…
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