Publications

October 1, 2019

The Grand Strategy of the Habsburg Empire

Princeton University Press | The Habsburg Empire's grand strategy for outmaneuvering and outlasting stronger rivals in a complicated geopolitical world...
September 24, 2019

Don’t Let Iran Distract From China

WSJ Opinion | The Trump administration is right to respond cautiously to last week’s Iranian attack on Saudi Arabia. As the U.S. protects its interests in the Middle East, it must...
July 1, 2019

The Return of Strategic Competition: How to Execute and Sustain the National Security Strategy

Ronald Regan Presidential Foundation & Institute | The world is entering a renewed period of major power competition. This is essentially a function of the more-equal power...
June 30, 2019

INF Treaty Defenders Raise the Risk of Nuclear War

WSJ Opinion | President Trump last year announced the U.S. would withdraw from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. That made sense because Russia...
June 20, 2019

Delivered Statement for the Record to the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission

U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission | Hearing on “A ‘World-Class’ Military: Assessing China’s Global Military Ambitions"....
June 13, 2019

US Eyes Southeast Asia Ties to Check China’s Ambitions

New Straits Times | FOR the United States, competing with China must now be our national priority, as indicated in multiple US high-level documents. But the US is not competing...
May 15, 2019

How to win America’s Next War

Foreign Policy | The era of untrammeled U.S. military superiority is over. If the United States delays implementing a new approach, it risks losing a war to China or Russia—or backing...
May 4, 2019

US helps those who help themselves

Tapei Times | The threat to Taiwan from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is increasing — sharply. Beijing is putting the nation under tremendous political pressure, but the military threat to....
April 30, 2019

Germany needs to invest more in defense

Center for a New American Security | Few aspects of Germany's tense relationship with its own history are more delicate than the role and status of its military . Many Germans...
April 12, 2019

Rethinking Metternich, Standpoint Magazine

Standpoint Magazine | “The historian is not yet born,” the Austrian state chancellor Clemens Wenzel von Metternich complained in 1829, “who will describe the numerous events....