Andrew O'Neil
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Indo-Pacific/Asia
Making Indo-Pacific Alliances Fit for Deterrence
As great-power competition intensifies, the role of deterrence and the potential for escalation have taken on renewed importance in the security...
Military Strategy
A "No-First-Use" Doctrine Would Undermine American Nuclear Deterrence
And Australia should make clear to the Biden administration any such commitment is not in the interests of allies. Given the widespread relief...
Indo-Pacific/Asia
Nuclear Deterrence and the U.S.–Australia Alliance
Speaking at the Hudson Institute in Washington two weeks ago, Defence Minister Linda Reynolds affirmed Australia’s readiness to play a more active...
Indo-Pacific/Asia
Why the Quad Won't Ever Be an Asian NATO
The most recent meeting of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue on the sidelines of the East Asia Summit in Singapore last November suggests that the...
North Korea
North Korea's Dangeously Rudimentary Nuclear Command-and-Control Systems
Conventional wisdom tells us that because North Korea’s elites are rational actors, they will conclude that the benefits of employing nuclear weapons...
Uncategorized
The Australia–U.S. Alliance Isn't in Trouble (Yet)
The recent exchange between Malcolm Turnbull and Donald Trump over the Manus Island refugee deal has quickly been portrayed as a barometer of the...
China
Middle Powers Hedge against China
What does China want? And when does it want it?
Iranian Cyber Operations
By Michael Groen • RealClearDefense
Reflecting on an Epic Horse Campaign in the Mountains of Afghanistan
By Brian Glyn Williams • RealClearDefense
The Godfather of American Foreign Policy Realism Speaks to Today’s World
By Francis P. Sempa • RealClearDefense
In Pursuit of Nuclear Abolition
By Peter Huessy • RealClearDefense
Innovation Alone Won’t Prepare the U.S. for the Future Battlefield
By Joshua Segal • RealClearDefense
Navy Civilianizes Six Former Flag Billets, Reduces Six to Captains
By Mongilio, USNI N.
Raytheon's $8B Contract for Strategic Comms Terminal Modernization
By M+A El
America’s Maritime Moment Will Not Wait
By CDR Salamander
Armor Up?
By Marine Corps Compass Points
Who Shoots Down the Drone Over the Shipyard?
By John Ferrari & Dillon Prochnicki • RealClearDefense
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