Travis A. Karnes
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China
We Are All Out of Doves
Why President Trump Must Take the National Mantle Against Xi Jinping The age of doves is finished. Soft engagement, strategic patience, and the...

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
President Trump's European Realities
President Trump’s European Realities and Why the United States Must Commence Peace Through Strength A Strategic Framework for Restoring Deterrence on...

Indo-Pacific/Asia
Arctic Eagle Sphere
Why President Trump Is Right About Greenland and How the United States Can Stop Russian Supremacy in the Arctic The Arctic is no longer a frozen...

Cyber Warfare
Begun the New Star Wars: How the U.S. Must Capture AI-Cyber and Space Warfare
The Empire has struck first. While Washington debates budgets and scandals, the People’s Republic of China, a revanchist Russia, and their North...

Russo-Ukraine War
Never Call Retreat: How Ukraine Can Force a High Mark to Victory
A refined five-point operational framework to leverage technological asymmetries, disrupt Russian logistics, and break the attritional stalemate in...

China
Trump's Taco Plant on Communist CCP Red China
From Summit Failure to Strategic Capitulation in the Face of Existential Threat The Communist Party of China (CCP) functions not as a normal...


Indo-Pacific/Asia
Dragon Slayer: America's Pivotal Role in the Indo-Pacific
In the vast expanse of the Indo-Pacific, America stands as the indispensable defender—guardian of freedom, guarantor of open sea lanes, and bulwark...

China
The Unholy Alliance: Moscow and Beijing's Invisible Shield Over Tehran
The strategic landscape of the Middle East has undergone a terminal shift. For decades, the Washington establishment operated under the delusion that...

Iran
No Retreat, No Surrender: Why America Must Prevail in Iran
In the unforgiving arena of twenty-first-century great-power competition, Iran stands as the fulcrum upon which American resolve will either hold firm...

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
The sUAS Tactical Trifecta
By Bryan T. Woody • RealClearDefense
The Revolutionary War: When Strategic Options Share the Same Weakness
By Henry Yep • RealClearDefense
The Houthis Are Testing the Limits of Collective Defense
By Saima Afzal • RealClearDefense

Who Shoots Down the Drone Over the Shipyard?
By John Ferrari & Dillon Prochnicki • RealClearDefense
Northrop Grumman Breaks Out the Big Guns at AUSA
By Daniel Terrill, Defense News
Army Pursuing Diverse Array of New Anti-Air Interceptors
By Trevithick, The WarZone
Who Shoots Down the Drone Over the Shipyard?
By John Ferrari & Dillon Prochnicki, RCD
F-35C Lands for the First Time on a Ford-Class Aircraft Carrier
By The Aviationist
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