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Xi's purge is important to US strategy in Asia. It isn’t about cleaning house. It’s about control. And a military trained to obey without question is a…
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Rebuilding the Human Edge
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Misdiagnosing Protest: How Counterinsurgency Logic Is Being Applied at Home
What Happens When the State Confuses Dissent for Rebellion
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Davos and the Unraveling of the U.S. Collective Security Framework
For nearly eighty years, the United States pursued a deliberate, often painstaking strategy to replace the instability of great-power rivalry with a…
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The 2025 National Security Strategy
Beyond rhetoric into operational doctrine
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Conditioning the Battlefield at Home
I admit that this is political. It’s divisive. And it’s outside my usual lane. But the patterns I’m seeing at home look uncomfortably familiar from…
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Thinking Carefully About Iran at a Dangerous Moment
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Venezuela and the Test of Irregular Power
Discipline, credibility, and the danger of mistaking will for strategy
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Getting the “Right” Answer the Wrong Way:
Maduro, Force, and the Precedents We Pretend Not to See
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