President Trump should keep his administration focused on the hard power the U.S.-Japan alliance needs to deter and win. After all, it is power, not promises, that delivers peace through strength.| American Enterprise Institute - AEI
The West likes to inflate the cost of Russian weapons as a way to suggest Moscow is in a financial bind and manipulate the narrative of a looming Ukraine victory — while also masking real inefficiencies in the U.S. defense industry. By assuming Russian weapons have input costs similar to U.S. systems or conflating export prices with Russia’s internal costs, Western estimates produce misleading figures. These inflated costs bolster the narrative that the strain on Moscow is tremendous, whi...| Responsible Statecraft
Facing the Russian threat with less help from America, the continent forges closer ties to beef up defense. The post Can Europe Turn Tough Talk on Russia into Action? appeared first on Washington Monthly.| Washington Monthly
Explosions of missile strikes, civilian screams and bloody shores — this is the grim scenario that Chinese propaganda wishes to relay to the Taiwanese public, one in which “peaceful reunification” is the only path to avoid annihilation. Many Taiwanese fear that they are woefully unprepared for such a situation; three in ten residents express “no confidence” in their armed forces, while fewer than half that number report “strong confidence.”| Global Taiwan Institute
INTERVIEW ON THE PRICE OF BUSINESS SHOW, MEDIA PARTNER OF THIS SITE. Recently Kevin Price, Host of...| The Daily Blaze
Lacking in any strategic thinking, a new bellicism has swept up the elites and gone into cataclysmic overdrive in recent weeks| Responsible Statecraft
