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An Indo-Pacific Nuclear Alliance Closes the Deterrence Gap Faster than Conventional

Allies & Extended Deterrence, Archive, Arms Control & Nonproliferation, Emerging Threats, Strategic AdversariesChina, conventional forces, conventional rearmament, credibility, deterrence gap, distributed basing, escalation, extended deterrence, integrated nuclear planning, layered deterrence, NATO, North Korea, nuclear alliance, nuclear coercion, Nuclear Deterrence, nuclear sharing, One moment, Russia, signaling, Survivability

An Indo-Pacific Nuclear Alliance Closes the Deterrence Gap Faster than Conventional

Natalie Treloar0 Comments

Published: June 15, 2026 The Indo-Pacific is entering a period of acute strategic imbalance. China’s rapid military modernization across nuclear, conventional, cyber, and space domains has outpaced the ability of regional powers to…

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

AI & Deterrence, Archive, Bonus Reads, Defense & Security, Economics & Trade, Emerging Threatsaccess control, agentic AI, attack surface, counterfeit insertion, cyber intrusion, data manipulation, data provenance, defense industrial base, Deterrence, hybrid campaigns, identity systems, influence narratives, Information Operations, intellectual property theft, logging, microsegmentation, National Security, One moment, predictive maintenance, production delays, reconnaissance, resilience, supply chain manipulation, supply chain visibility, working through the calculations for this response in more detail.artificial intelligence, zero trust

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

Greg Sharpe0 Comments

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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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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