Michael Pezzullo
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Military Strategy
AUKUS Has Put Australia's Submarine Effort Back on Track
The first question to consider when thinking about a major defence program such as AUKUS is this: defence against whom? Australian governments have...

Indo-Pacific/Asia
Since Australia Hosts U.S. Facilities, We Need a Joint War Plan
Australia hosts several joint Australian-American facilities and provides the U. S.

U.S. Navy
AUKUS: How To Help the US Navy As It Helps Australia
There’s a way for Australia to strengthen its case for the U. S.

Grand Strategy
Reset Pax Americana: The West Needs a Grand Accord
The world is trying to make sense of the Trump tariffs. Is there a grand design and strategy, or is it all instinct and improvisation?

Grand Strategy
The Geography of American Power
The United States is a secure power. Situated in a hemispheric citadel, and protected by wide oceans, the U.

Grand Strategy
Gradually, Then Suddenly: In Geopolitics, Decades Can Happen in Weeks
Ernest Hemingway wrote in The Sun Also Rises (1926) that bankruptcy occurs gradually and then suddenly. This should be treated as a rule of...

Uncategorized
Trump's Likely Foreign Policy
Trump’s Likely Foreign Policy: Selective Engagement, and Helping Those Who Help Themselves In his second term, Donald Trump will be determined to...

Military Strategy
The Strategic and Moral Shock of War in the Modern Age
In his first autobiography, My Early Life: A Roving Commission, Winston Churchill set down a timeless formula for thinking about war odds: however...

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By Gleb Tsipursky • RealClearDefense
After the Silence
By Chase Skylar DeMayo • RealClearDefense
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By Percy Yixuanchen Yu • RealClearDefense
FORTRESS America Must Measure Missions, Not Megawatts
By Burak Oktenli • RealClearDefense
After the Midterms, the Right Strategy Against Iran
By Lance Gordon • RealClearDefense

After the Silence
By Chase Skylar DeMayo • RealClearDefense
Underwater Arms Race Puts U.S. Naval Supremacy at Risk
By Tom O'Connor, Newsweek
New Facilities To Pump Out Upgraded F/A-18E/F Super Hornets
By Trevithick, WarZone
U.S. Navy Expands Tomahawk Warhead Production
By Naval News Staff, Naval News
SSN(X) Attack Boat Will be a Swift, Lethal Mothership for Undersea Drones
By USNI N.
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