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Foreign Policy | The State Department is in urgent need of reform. Over the past three decades, it has expanded its remit into countless functions and causes that are well outside its core mission. This is not just an inefficient use of taxpayer resources.........
Washington Post | “ The “simultaneity problem,” as it’s known in military circles, has been the most serious grand strategic challenge facing the United States for some time now.”........
Foreign Affairs | The time has come for the United States to build a collective defense pact in Asia. For decades, such a pact was neither possible nor necessary. Today, in the face of a growing threat from China, it is both viable and essential..........
Foreign Affairs | After the end of the Cold War, the United States moved away from using negotiations to promote the national interest. .......
Foreign Policy | Europe needs a Walter Lippmann — the famous American journalist who, in 1943, argued that a gap between foreign commitments and capacity creates an “insolvent” foreign policy......
American Compass | It has become clear that the current DIB is ill-equipped to produce materiel adequate to achieve plausible mission objectives in any one theater America is currently engaged in, let alone all three ........
The Marathon Initiative | America’s allies are heavily reliant on the United States for security. These dependencies belie the potential power of our partners – and America’s growing fiscal constraints........
Internasjonalt Forum | Interview with Elbridge Colby: An exclusive interview that the head of the editorial committee, Ciwan Can, conducted with Elbridge Colby about how a possible victory for Donald Trump could affect the war in Ukraine and security in Europe. ........
The Marathon Initiative | Washington cannot shrink from great-power competition where U.S. security is threatened, but nor can it form a strategy on the assumption that it possesses unlimited resources to compete, .......
Wall Street Journal | On trade, defense and energy, Washington has failed to shore up the trans-Atlantic alliance.......