James Van de Velde
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Iran
Why Liberal Democracies Should Defeat Totalitarian Iran
When the Peoples Republic of China was admitted into the WTO in 2001, the world (wishfully) stopped reminding itself of a social science fact:...

Cyber Warfare
Japan and Cyberspace Exist in an Existential Clash
Prevailing Japanese interpretations of its pacifist constitution and cyberspace exist in an existential clash. They are incompatible, given current...

Cyber Warfare
Improving Japan's Cyber Defense
The Japanese Cabinet’s February 7 proposal to the Diet to allow National Police and Self-Defense Forces to neuter adversary cyberspace code targeting...

Iran
Iran Nuke Debate Is Another Narrative Collapse
The debate about ‘when and if’ Iran might develop a nuclear weapon is a series of misleading narratives. The issue is much simpler than the Biden...

Uncategorized
Japan's Inevitable Independent Nuclear Deterrent
Japan’s (Inevitable, But Unlikely Anytime Soon) Independent Nuclear Dissuasion Force In response to the current unprecedented Chinese nuclear weapons...

Russo-Ukraine War
U.S. Support for Ukraine Lacks Intellectual Rigor
From left, Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, French President Emmanuel Macron, Japan's Prime Minster Fumio Kishida,...

Uncategorized
How Biden Can Advance Unity in U.S. Foreign Policy
The new Biden administration, if it is serious about unity, should admit why it was and was not elected. It certainly was not elected by the majority...

Cyber Warfare
The Top Ten Statements Regarding Jihadist Use of Cyberspace
10. The internet has helped terrorists more than it has hurt them.

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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