NATO’s Essential Minnows and the Russian Threat
By Joseph Rollwagen & Justin McCauley The Bridge When living on a shoestring budget, it is important to make your limited resources go a long way. Beans are cheaper than meat; […]
Tag Archives: National Defense
The Arctic Race that Wasn’t
By Andreas Kuersten Foreign Affairs As the Arctic melts, various ideas about the region are being carried along in the runoff. Depending on whom you ask, the Arctic is either […]
How Uber Could Help Change Spycraft
By Aliya Sternstein Defense One The intelligence community this month quietly released an unprecedented, unclassified five-year-roadmap charting the future of data analysis it wants commercial startups like ride-sharing firm Uber to read. […]
Fighting and Winning in the “Gray Zone”
By David Barno & Nora Bensahel War on the Rocks The United States possesses the most capable armed forces in the world. America leads the world in military expenditures, spending […]
Theorizing the Drone
By Grégoire Chamayou Longreads “It is the strangest of bureaucratic rituals,” write two New York Times reporters. “Every week or so, more than 100 members of the government’s sprawling national security […]
Hybrid War: Old Concept, New Techniques
By Alex Deep Small Wars Journal While the means by which state and non-state actors conduct hybrid war today have changed, the fundamental principle of utilizing a combination of conventional […]
Putin’s Nordic Miscalculation
By Michael Haltzel The Huffington Post Vladimir Putin is proving to be a tactical genius but a strategic blunderer. Perhaps the most important geostrategic result of the ongoing invasion of Ukraine […]
Russia’s Aggressive Isolationism
By Ivan Krastev & Stephen Holmes The American Interest In a January 8, 1962 speech that remained secret for more than forty years, Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev announced to […]
The U.S. Military and Artificial Intelligence
By Patrick Tucker Defense One In November, Undersecretary of Defense Frank Kendall quietly issued a memo to the Defense Science Board that could go on to play a role in history. […]
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