Eric S. Edelman
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Uncategorized
November 3, 2025
President Trump Deserves Better Advice
He is not being well-informed on Nuclear Issues Despite his well know aversion to using the other “N” word and discussing the issues connected with...
Eric S. Edelman • RealClearDefense

Military Strategy
August 16, 2023
We Must Return to and Maintain the Two Theater Defense Planning Construct
Overview It has become fashionable lately in some quarters to assert that the deterrence of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan and, indeed, the island’s...
Eric S. Edelman • RealClearDefense

Uncategorized
November 10, 2022
Joint Prepared Statement and Opening Remarks Before the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services, United States Nuclear Strategy and Policy, September 20, 2022
Eric S. Edelman and Franklin C.
Eric S. Edelman • National Institute for Public Policy

Middle East
October 2, 2020
Contain, Degrade, And Defeat
A Defense Strategy for A Troubled Middle East Executive Summary The decade and a half the United States has spent fighting the “long war” in the...
Eric S. Edelman • RealClearDefense
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