Nuclear weapons are not going to suddenly disappear. But they might create a more dangerous world in which countries are ...

On Dec. 29, 2025, Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense reported one of the most intense single-day episodes of Chinese ...

An Army Special Forces Soldier (left) assigned to 20th Special Forces Group and member of the Lithuanian National Defence Volunteer Forces observe a target during exercise Saber Junction 2018 at the ...

Deterrence is the central organizing concept of current U.S. strategy. In its simplest form, the term means discouraging aggression by threatening unacceptable consequences. Countries have been ...

What Is China Really Doing in Greenland? Fact-Checking Trump’s Arctic Claims Deterrence is no substitute for strategy, and there’s danger in confusing the two. A resurgence of debates about deterrence ...

BERLIN — The Trump administration’s new National Defense Strategy (NDS) places “deterrence” at the center of America’s grand ...

Like all humans, judges are susceptible to fads. Anger management became a popular feature of American probationary sentences in the 1980s. A few years ago it was teen courts, then drug courts. The ...

Russian troops block the Ukrainian military base in Perevalne during its 2014 annexation of Crimea. UC Davis political scientists have received a U.S. Department of Defense grant to study when ...

Madeleine Albright once asked Colin Powell, “What’s the point of having this superb military you’re always talking about if we can’t use it?” Nobody ever asked that question about nuclear weapons. Not ...

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 ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. During the 35 years since Gregg, and particularly in the past decade, many additional ...