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 ...

Albert Hirschman’s book on geo-economics written in the context of Nazi Germany is proving prescient. Today, national strategies that weaponize trade flows, critical supplies and financial systems are ...

These are no longer theoretical debates confined to policy forums. The conflict is widening. American servicemen have now been lost. What once appeared contained now carries the unmistakable risk of ...

The use of force is not always aimed at immediate victory in the conventional sense but at restoring credibility, altering adversaries’ expectations, and reshaping the strategic environment. Judging ...

PURPOSE: BUILD AUTONOMOUS WEAPONS TO STRENGTHEN DETERRENCE. Widespread alarmism about autonomous weapons has undermined U.S. military competitiveness. Autonomous weapons are not inherently unethical ...

There is a problem with deterrence; it’s not working. Not that we are about to descend into nuclear armageddon. But aside from nuclear wars, the United States’ deterrence paradigm does not seem to be ...

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Regarding Sorin Adam Matei’s “The Ukraine War Calls for a Revival of Deterrence Theory” (op-ed, Aug. 23): Classical deterrence theory had a simple unifying goal: Defend democracy from communist ...

Nuclear weapons shaped every decision of the Cold War — but why weren’t they ever used? This video explores the evolution of deterrence theory, from Mutually Assured Destruction to arms control ...

U.S. adversaries—principally Russia and China—do not seem cowed, either by the risk of failure to achieve their objectives or by the fear of retaliation. There is a problem with deterrence; it’s not ...