Articles and Posts by Seth Cropsey

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Newport News shipbuilding

America Must Boost Sealift Capability

Logistics is America’s Achilles heel in the Indo-Pacific region.  If the United States is to fight and win a Pacific War with China – a war that seems increasingly imaginable over the coming decade – then it must ensure its military sealift system is up to the challenge of great-power …

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PLAN aircraft carrier

5 Steps the US Must Take to Deter a War with China

he United States faces an unveiled threat from China. Beijing has made clear, in its public pronouncements and its strategic doctrine, that it seeks to conquer Taiwan and engorge the whole of the Western Pacific, ultimately bending Asia’s political structures to its will. The U.S., and the world at large, would be far …

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American evacuation from Saigon

A Warning About Ukraine in the Lessons of Vietnam

History has a way of reprising itself in parallel, if not precise leitmotifs — why else would we study it? The travesty of Kabul airport in 2021, a botched U.S. withdrawal that almost certainly emboldened Vladimir Putin and encouraged his invasion of Ukraine, is a modern reflection of the 1975 Saigon evacuation. Both …

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Chinese hypersonic gliding vehicle project

Hypersonic Capabilities and Allies

The United States must accelerate hypersonic development and deployment. To do so it should turn to its allies, particularly Australia, and leverage the connections under the AUKUS Pact to intensify testing, expand production capacity and ensure American-allied interoperability. Indeed, the U.S. has a unique chance, through its alliance relationships, to …

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Putin and Xi at Beijing Olympics

A Global Proxy War: Ukraine is Now the Center of our Eurasian Competition with Russia and China

The Putin-Xi summit in Moscow ended without any grand pronouncements or overwhelming actions. Yet it produced a joint statement that deserves careful reflection. The statement makes sense only in the context of substantive Russian strategy in Ukraine: Russia is in this for the long haul, as is China. Major public …

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Pacific Vanguard 2020 exercise

What the U.S. Can Do to Prepare for a War With China

The U.S. is unprepared for an impending great-power conflict. That’s widely understood, but most commentary on American military preparedness misses three critical points: the time horizon for a conflict with China, the logistical challenges of building and sustaining American military power, and the industrial difficulties of replenishing and expanding current …

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US Needs Assertive Eurasia Strategy

Despite the Ukraine war having reached its first anniversary, the relevance of the conflict is still not recognized. Russia’s assault inaugurated a formal competition for dominion over the Eurasian landmass. Its goal was to create a strategic position from which it could crack NATO. As it stands, it has failed to conquer Ukraine, …

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