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Silent Signals: Russian and Chinese Conventional Threats to NC3 and U.S. Extended Deterrence in Australia

Allies & Extended Deterrence, Archive, Arms Control & Nonproliferation, Deterrence & Foreign Policy, Emerging Threats, Strategic Adversariesalliance integration, anti-submarine warfare, ASW, AUKUS, Australia, China, communications, conventional threats, cyber defense, cyber operations, deterrence coherence, diesel-electric submarines, Doctrine, early warning, escalation, escalation manipulation, grey-zone, Harold E. Holt, India, Indo-Pacific, Indo-Pacific nuclear alliance, infrastructure hardening, long-range strike, mobile systems, multi-domain threats, NC3, nuclear consultation, Nuclear Deterrence, Pine Gap, PLA Navy, policy adaptations, precision strike, redundancy, regional security, Russia, signals intelligence, space-based systems, strategic dialogue, strategic resilience, threshold management., U.S. extended deterrence, undersea surveillance

Silent Signals: Russian and Chinese Conventional Threats to NC3 and U.S. Extended Deterrence in Australia

Natalie Treloar0 Comments

Published: April 27, 2026 Introduction Russia’s recent deployment of a conventionally armed, diesel-powered submarine to Indonesia should not be dismissed as routine naval activity. It is a calculated strategic signal.…

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

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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