Abstract Australia, Japan and the USA are all facing dual pressures that require them to do more with less. Internationally, they deal with the challenge…
Country or Region: United States
Abstract In light of the intertwining logics of military competition and economic interdependence at play in Sino–American relations, this paper examines how the United States…
Abstract AirSea Battle (ASB) has generated significant publicity, controversy, and debate among scholars, analysts, commentators, and observers of US defense strategy. However, a research gap…
Abstract China’s rise in recent years has exacerbated Vietnam–China security tensions over maritime disputes in the South China Sea. To manage its security competition with…
Abstract Although the Obama Administration has differed from its predecessor in a number of respects, on the specific issue of Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD), there…
Abstract The extensive timespan of evolving assumptions about future adversaries, US military engagements, and technology inherent in the US Army’s 30-year modernization strategy can overwhelm…
Abstract Notwithstanding the close partnership between Washington and Islamabad that has developed over the past half-dozen years, Pakistan today is viewed by Americans as a…
Abstract Ballistic missile defense (BMD) politics present an interesting evolution in how the USA, especially Congress, has come to think about BMD both as operational…
Abstract This article explores series of “red lines” issued over the years by the USA and Israel toward Iran and Syria. It argues that the…
Abstract The Pakistan military has long been considered the one institution in the country that functions sufficiently well to deliver international objectives. It has consequently…
Abstract Pakistan is becoming increasingly important in international security calculus, and the future trajectory of this nuclear weapons’ state on the front line of the…
Abstract Conventional wisdom seems to hold that under Barack Obama, the US ballistic missile defence programme has been pushed aside to allow for a refreshed…
Abstract The American ‘return’ to East Asia is currently characterized by a particularly high degree of competition with Beijing among the small and medium powers…
Abstract A combination of threat analysis and “subterranean forces” (such as proclivities to fight conventional wars as compared to asymmetric ones) leads the USA to…
Abstract US nuclear deterrence and arms control policy may be moving, by design and by inadvertence, toward a posture of strategic “defensivism”. Strategic “defensivism” emphasizes…
