Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year came as no surprise to the West. But the Kremlin’s recent ability to escalate without pushback is surprising. Last month Russian jet fighters in Syria harassed U ...

Elli Lieberman’s work on deterrence provides a useful framework for assessing the strategic meaning of Israel’s war against Iran. In Reconceptualizing Deterrence, Lieberman mo ...

Strengthening Deterrence: Parliamentary Perspectives on Japan's Defense Strategy. With the revision of three key security documents in December 2022, Japan is charting a new course in its national ...

The following speech was delivered by the Hon. Dr. Kevin Rudd to the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, on February 18, 2025. It is reproduced here in full. The Naval War College was ...

Chris, Melanie, and Zack discuss Carter Malkasian’s recent article on “America’s crisis of deterrence.” They debate whether recent policy failures are a breakdown of deterrence theory or U.S. policy, ...

Donald Trump’s first-term nuclear decisions, including a new Nuclear Posture Review and the U.S. exit from the Iran deal, ...

Prospects for Russian–American strategic nuclear arms control seemed unfavorable in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and Russia’s later suspension of formal participation ...

Since the 1990s, every four years (give or take) the Department of Defense (DOD) issues its major strategic planning document, the National Defense Strategy (NDS). And every four years, the strategic ...