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Defense Budget

May 17, 2025

It's Time to Have a Guns Verses Butter Debate

As Congress debates President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” the members of both the House of Representative and the Senate should also have a long...

Adam Lowther • RealClearDefense

Military Strategy

May 20, 2024

A Thinking and Writing Military Is a Better One

It is time the services stop cutting the budgets and staff of the professional journals and military presses that allow Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen,...

Adam Lowther • RealClearDefense
Iran Persian Gulf Tensions

Iran

August 10, 2023

Preventing a Nuclear-Armed Iran: Shifting to Deterrence Is Long Overdue

Washington’s fixation on the war in Ukraine is understandable given the horrors of Russian violence and atrocities. Unfortunately, while Washington is...

Adam Lowther • RealClearDefense
Japan US Hiroshima Pearl Harbor

Military History

August 5, 2023

Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Correcting the Record

As the world remembers the August 6, 1945, and August 9, 1945, anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki it is important to avoid...

Adam Lowther • RealClearDefense
North Korea Koreas Tensions

Uncategorized

June 8, 2023

The Primacy of Nuclear Deterrence

The United States now faces the bleakest prospects for peace since 1945. Russia, China, and North Korea are all revanchist states seeking to overthrow...

Adam Lowther • RealClearDefense

Uncategorized

March 22, 2023

Inconvenient Facts for the Disarmament Community

Since its release in October of last year, President Joseph Biden’s Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) has garnered significant criticism from the arms...

Adam Lowther • RealClearDefense

Russo-Ukraine War

March 17, 2023

Ending the Administration's Hopium Habit

In response to Vladimir Putin’s suspension of Russian participation in the New START nuclear arms control treaty and his promise to strengthen the...

Adam Lowther • RealClearDefense

Uncategorized

March 7, 2023

It Is Time Congress Save the Nuclear Arsenal

In this Friday, March 30, 2018 file photo taken from video provided by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service, the Sarmat intercontinental...

Adam Lowther • RealClearDefense
United States Russia Nuclear Treaty

Uncategorized

February 23, 2023

It is Time to Withdraw from New START

On Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that the Russian Federation is suspending participation in the New START Treaty—the sole...

Adam Lowther • RealClearDefense
U.S. Air Force Missiles Minuteman III

Uncategorized

January 9, 2023

Repeat a Lie Often Enough and it Becomes the Truth

In an article for Defense One , nuclear disarmament advocate Tom Z. Collina chides the Biden administration’s recently released Nuclear Posture Review...

Adam Lowther • RealClearDefense

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