2017-12-05 By Steven Blank Western governments and commentators have both neglected to analyze Russia’s overall strategic campaign in the Middle East, rather than primarily focusing on its actions in Syria. Focusing almost exclusively on Syria and/or on the issue of oil prices that Moscow is negotiating with OPEC and especially…
2017-12-15 By Richard Weitz One problem with the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2018 (H.R. 2810) signed by President Trump on Tuesday is that the costs of defending foreign countries from missile threats is disproportionately paid for by American tax payers. To sustain funding for the U.S.…
2017-12-18 By Robbin Laird and Ed Timperlake We have a fundamental respect for the Poles and their history. No people have learned more about the threats to national survival generated by European insecurities and the Russians than the Poles. We each have a reach into Poland and its heritage but by…
2017-12-18 By Brian Morra The Department of Defense’s acquisition system is a major cause of the erosion of the defense capabilities of the United States. This erosion is visible in high profile, fatal accidents like those the US Navy has experienced in the Western Pacific over the past two years.…
2017-12-05 By Robbin Laird During my last visit to Australia, I spent time with colleagues in the Australian government discussing various aspects of the strategic environment in flux and what the impact of such an environment has on Australian interests. The newly released Foreign Policy White Paper provides a public…
2017-12-16 By Danny Lam The United States seized on an opportunity co-host with Canada a meeting of the United Nations Command Sending States plus the Republic of Korea and Japan after the last DPRK missile test. The stated purpose of the meeting for the US was to “discuss how the…
2017-12-082017-11-20 The new Queen Elizabeth class carrier is the largest warship ever built in the United Kingdom. While most of the focus of the press coverage has been on the process of building the carrier and now its sea trials, the carrier is coming at a very interesting point in…
2017-12-05 By The Australian Institute of International Affairs Australia’s first Foreign Policy White Paper in 14 years opens with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s declaration, “change, unprecedented in its scale and pace, is the tenor of our times”; and it is the changes in global power dynamics, international trade, security, technology…
