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The Conversation Europe Never Wanted: Hypersonic Tensions and U.S. Defense Strategy

Archive, Arms Control & Nonproliferation, Deterrence & Foreign Policy, Strategic Adversariesalliance cohesion, alliance-level exercises, capability demonstration, coercive leverage, compressed decision timelines, conventional vs nuclear deterrence, crisis decision-making, Deterrence, deterrence by denial, deterrence by punishment, distributed command and control, dual-use ambiguity, escalation management, European security guarantees, Hypersonic tensions, Hypersonic Weapons, integrated air and missile defense, integrated deterrence, interception challenges, Lviv, Mach 10, miscalculation risk, missile defense architectures, NATO, Oreshnik missile, Poland, resilience, Russia, strategic signaling, U.S. National Defense Strategy, Ukraine, warning time collapse

The Conversation Europe Never Wanted: Hypersonic Tensions and U.S. Defense Strategy

Brandon Toliver4 Comments

Picture a late-night briefing room in Europe. Screens glow. A map of western Ukraine fills the wall. A red arc appears, moving faster than anything else in the inventory of…

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“Resumption of Nuclear Testing”—Not So Fast!

Archive, Arms Control & Nonproliferation, Bonus Reads, Defense & Security, Strategic AdversariesArms Control Association, capability, Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, computational simulation, containment preparations, deterrence theory, dynamic parity, explosive testing, modernization, moratorium, National Security, national strategy, Nevada National Security Sites, nuclear arsenal, Nuclear Deterrence, nuclear policy, nuclear testing, physics-based modeling, proxy testing, resolve, simulation, strategic clarity, strategic signaling, underground detonations, underground testing

“Resumption of Nuclear Testing”—Not So Fast!

James Petrosky0 Comments

On October 29, 2025, President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he “instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis.” This statement,…

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India’s Strategy of Escalation Dominance

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India’s Strategy of Escalation Dominance

Sher Ali Kakar & Atta Ullah0 Comments

Recent, statements by Indian Air Force Chief Marshal AP Singh and Indian Army Chief General Upendra Dwivedi reflect how India’s military doctrine is transforming, which, in recent years, has undergone…

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