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South China Sea

Proposing Maritime Confidence-Building Measures between India and Pakistan

Proposing Maritime Confidence-Building Measures between India and Pakistan

There are escalating tensions between India and Pakistan in the Indian Ocean region (IOR), which underscores the need for maritime confidence-building measures (CBM) and risk-reduction strategies to avoid any probability…
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The New Nuclear Alliance Against the West

The New Nuclear Alliance Against the West

Campaign rhetoric aside, the next president and America’s allies around the globe already face a multi-lateral nuclear alliance directed against them. Worse yet, that alliance is on track to become…
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Increasing the Archipelagic Defense from the Philippines to Japan

Increasing the Archipelagic Defense from the Philippines to Japan

Andrew Erickson and Joel Wuthnow’s article, “Why Islands Still Matter in Asia,” discusses the views of Major General Karl Ernst Haushofer, Germany’s military attaché to Japan from 1908 to 1910.…
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The Emerging Nuclear Scenario

The Emerging Nuclear Scenario

The Russia-North Korea mutual security pact, Moscow’s unceasing nuclear threats, Russia’s global nuclear power sales drive, Iran’s race for nuclear weapons, and China’s “breathtaking” nuclear expansion, are the stuff of…
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Nuclear Weapons and Trilateral Superpower Competition

Nuclear Weapons and Trilateral Superpower Competition

Following the Cold War, there was much intellectual confusion concerning nuclear weapons, nuclear strategy, and why nuclear weapons exist. After the end of the Cold War, people around the world…
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The Mayhem Brothers: Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran

The Mayhem Brothers: Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran

Central to the international order, which was created out of the destruction wrought in World War II, is deterrence. It is derived from the collective power found in economic, political,…
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