Aaron Stein
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Space Warfare
Taking LEO Off the Board: Russian Thinking About Anti-Satellite Warfare
Executive Summary The Soviet Union and Russia have invested in anti-satellite weapons to ensure that their nuclear deterrent remains credible. For...

Air Warfare
The UAV-Enabled Anti-Air Defense Campaign in the Third Gulf War
In late 2020, drones burst onto the national security scene in a new way. During the Nagorno-Karabakh war between Turkey and Armenia that year, videos...

Russo-Ukraine War
American Missiles and Russian Dachas
Tomahawk and the Future of Stability and Deterrence in Europe The Tomahawk cruise missile is a near perfect machine . Its development followed...

Space Warfare
Nuclear Weapons In Space: Orbital Bombardment and Strategic Stability
Executive Summary In 2015, a new space race began. Blue Origin, a privately owned company, landed a booster on a launch pad back on earth, after...

Iran
Tempting Fate: The Implications of Iran's Attack on Israel
On Saturday, April 13, the Islamic Republic of Iran launched an unprecedented aerial attack on Israel. The Israeli military and its allies and...

Iran
Roundtable: The Iranian Way of War
The Islamic Republic of Iran has been at war for almost its entire existence, beginning with the Iraqi invasion of the country in 1980 and, then, in...

Terrorism
Roundtable: U.S. Accuses Iran of Tanker Attacks
On Thursday, June 13, 2019, two tankers, the Kokuka Courageous and the MT Front Altair, were damaged in explosions in the Gulf of Oman, after...

Military Strategy
The Fracturing of Turkey's Military
The failed coup attempt last Friday challenged a number of key assumptions about the Turkish Republic. Turkey, a NATO ally since 1952, has always been...

Terrorism
Finding A Way Forward in The War Against ISIS
An F-22A Raptor in the US Central Command area of responsibility prepares for strike operations against ISIS targets in Syria, Sept. 23, 2014.

Middle East
Turkey's Problems in Aleppo - Russia and the Kurds
A Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) fighter walks near a wall, which activists said was put up by Turkish authorities, on the Syria-Turkish...
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Putin, Plague, and America’s Biodefense Gap
By Ryan Kane • RealClearDefense
From Hormuz to the South China Sea: Defending Freedom of Navigation in Contested Waters
By David F. Lasseter • RealClearDefense
Checklist for Modern Conflict Readiness
By Sergey E. Ivashchenko • RealClearDefense
AUTOWARCOM Is Heading for a Command-and-Control Collision
By Michael Carvelli • RealClearDefense
The Unfinished Reform
By Mark W. Castillon • RealClearDefense

U.S. and Japan Begin Naval Exercises Near Taiwan
By Mari Yamaguchi • Associated Press
From Hormuz to the South China Sea: Defending Freedom of Navigation in Contested Waters
By David F. Lasseter • RealClearDefense
National Guard Soldier Shot While Breaking Up Fight in Washington D.C.
By Military.com
‘No Marine Fights Alone’
By Gidget Fuentes, USNI News
Sea Services Weigh How to Embrace Autonomous, Attritable Tech
By Reeves, NatDef
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