From left: Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, U.S. President Joe Biden, and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announce the AUKUS deal in San Diego, California, U.S., Mar. 13, 2023. Credit: ...

Deterrence polemics have all but disappeared from most newspapers and television, and with each new theme for our national security strategy, we are reading, seeing, and hearing less about deterrence.

U.S. adversaries—principally Russia and China—do not seem cowed, either by the risk of failure to achieve their objectives or by the fear of retaliation. There is a problem with deterrence; it’s not ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President George W. Bush’s vision was that by imposing democracy on Iraq, "freedom" would spread throughout the greater Middle ...

Dr. Michael Wheeler, senior research staff, Institute for Defense Analyses, led the panel titled “Deterrence Concept Updates and Approaches” at the first workshop session. He began by describing what ...

Whether America’s aid to Ukraine actually comes at the expense of its ability to defend Taiwan if necessary is, at best, murky. True, the United States has already obligated over $100 billion in aid ...

Most of these bases were home to Russian strategic heavy bombers—aircraft capable of carrying nuclear weapons. Using Russia’s mobile phone network, Ukrainian operatives remotely launched the drones, ...

Power is changing — and we are not ready for it. For most of the last century, deterrence meant military force. The ability to project power, deploy armies, and, at its most extreme, threaten the ...

Since multiple Russian drones crossed into Poland last month, European leaders have expedited the idea of a "drone wall" and rushed to discuss the need to invest in countering drones. But when it ...

The threat from Russian bad actors is real; if the US government is halting offensive operations, it may fall to the private sector to take up the cause of disruption, argues Christopher Whyte. The ...

Enough to destroy a continent. I got a refresher course in deterrence during a visit to the Titan Missile Museum in Tucson, Arizona. Titan II was the largest nuclear missile the United States ever ...

There is a problem with deterrence; it’s not working. Not that we are about to descend into nuclear armageddon. But aside from nuclear wars, the United States’ deterrence paradigm does not seem to be ...