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Challenging External Authoritarian Threats

News and Opinion
The Pentagon must prepare for a much bigger theater of war

News and Opinion
America Is Not Ready for a War With China
A sobering argument that our interest group lobbying-based approach to military planning is undermining our ability to deter Chinese aggression.

News and Opinion
Irregular Warfare Annex to the National Defense Strategy - Summary

News and Opinion
Putin threatens nuclear war. The West must deter disaster.

News and Opinion
Commission on the National Defense Strategy

News and Opinion
U.S. Shrugs as World War III Approaches
A quick summary of the report of the Commission on the National Defense Strategy -- a politically neglected, but critically important, warning about the West's declining ability to deter war and defend itself.

News and Opinion
America's Crisis of Deterrence: How to Adapt an Old Theory to New Realities
From Foreign Affairs, carefully considered thoughts about how we can deter war by modifying deterrence strategies to better reflect complex 21st-century strategic realities.

News and Opinion
World War III is already under way. Not that Harris or Trump has noticed.
A warning that the United States' political hyper-polarization is undermining our ability to deter war (at a time when the early stages of World War III may already be upon us).

News and Opinion
Biological warfare is a real threat. How can we deter it?
A reminder that biological warfare deserves a prominent place at the top of our mega-worry list -- a worry that really ought to be getting a lot more attention.