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The next war over Taiwan may be deterred not by aircraft carriers or nuclear arsenals, but by a Dutch lithography machine.

America’s defense industrial base cannot build the Navy out of the threat it faces. Decades of industry consolidation, persistent resource shortages, and inconsistent demand signals have delayed the ...

Washington is littered with the corpses of grand plans to restore the Merchant Marine. The Trump administration’s Maritime ...

A few months ago, I attended a panel discussion for a wargame simulating rapid industrial mobilization for armed conflict.

Missiles, drones, and maritime disruptions do not stop at national borders. Gulf defense architecture still too often waits ...

Rarely a week passes without a new story about Russia’s shadow fleet. Tankers catch fire in the Mediterranean, are added to ...

Winter Storm Uri ripped through Texas in January 2021. The frigid temperatures froze pipes, which then burst and caused ...

China’s plan to become a world leader in AI by 2030 is a fixture of practically every Congressional briefing and expert ...

In August 2024, scholars at a Xiamen-based think tank published a paper urging Beijing to immediately establish a shadow ...

Putin’s Looming Insurgency Problem,” where he argued Ukraine’s fight against Russia would rely on a combination of ...

It is in long periods of peace that victories and defeats are prepared. Peace is the period for men of government, just as ...