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AI & Deterrence, Archive, Arms Control & Nonproliferation, Economics & Trade, Emerging Threats, Space Deterrence & Conflict, Strategic Adversaries2025 National Security Strategy, artificial intelligence, Cislunar Security, Critical Materials, defense industrial base, Deterrence, Disruptive Industries, Economic Security, export controls, Indo-Pacific, industrial base, Industrial Policy, Manufacturing Capacity, Military Strategy, mobilization, national resilience, reindustrialization, Reshoring, space superiority, Spheres of Influence, Strategic Technologies, supply chains, Technological Leadership, Western hemisphere

Techno-Economic power at the heart of the 2025 U.S. National Security Strategy

Christophe Bosquillon0 Comments

The 2025 U.S. National Security Strategy (NSS) dropped on December 4th. The Secretary of War said: “Out with utopian idealism, in with hard-nosed realism.” The NSS could even further be translated…

Allies & Extended Deterrence, Archive, Bonus Reads, Strategic Adversariesautonomous systems, Defense Spending, Deterrence, drones, escalation, escalation management, global security, homeland defense, innovation, Military Strategy, multidomain conflicts, National Security, non-nuclear options, nuclear strategy, precision strikes, signaling frameworks, strategic agility, strategic impact, technology, Ukraine, warfare

Ghosts in the Skies: How Ukraine’s Drone Tactics Recast Modern Deterrence

Brandon Toliver4 Comments

What happens to nuclear deterrence when a non-nuclear state strikes deep into a nuclear-armed adversary? The stark reality is that the world does not collapse, but the era of conventional…

Archive, Arms Control & Nonproliferation, Defense & Security, Emerging Threats, Podcast, Strategic AdversariesChina Threat, cold war, economic, geopolitical dynamics, Military Strategy, security, Trade

Navigating the US-China Relationship: Myths and Realities

James Petrosky, Adam Lowther & Curtis McGiffin0 Comments

In a stark warning echoing through national security corridors, the NIDS team confronts the unsettling truths behind US-China tensions, drawing from Miles Yu’s provocative article, “A Dangerous Myth of US-China…

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Not Today: A Nuclear Deterrence Analogy

Ben Burdette2 Comments

My family is in the season of teenagers. Clearly the music I grew up on and what my kids listen to today could not be more different. That said, a…

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Why Military Presses Matter

Adam Lowther & Laura M. Thurston Goodroe0 Comments

On a 2015 official visit to the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) National University of Defense Technology in Changsha, China, I (Adam) was talking with a senior PLA colonel about Chinese…

Defense & SecurityChina, European Union, Iran, Japan, Military Strategy, North Korea, Russia, United States

U.S. Nuclear Weapons Modernization

Ankit Panda

U.S. strategic and tactical nuclear weapons on land, in the air, and at sea, will undergo costly and extensive modernization in the coming years. U.S. nuclear forces, operated by the…

Defense & SecurityCrimea, Military Strategy, NATO, Ukraine

Russia’s Justification for the Annexation of Crimea

Joshua Ball

Failure to act by NATO, UN, or Western powers made Russia's non-linear invasion and subsequent annexation of Crimea legal. Russian-propagated disinformation campaigns, psychological manipulation efforts, cyber attacks on critical infrastructure, financial and…