Blog posts and other updates from Yorktown’s leadership, staff, and guest authors.
Yorktown Senior Fellow Grant Newsham explains why Putin’s experience in Ukraine might convince President Xi that an invasion of Taiwan is worth the risk and what the ramifications of such an act would be for security and stability across the globe.
This article originally appeared in Asia Times. “I hear America singing,” Walt Whitman famously wrote in his hymn to the common man. So does Bill Rivers in his rollicking, moving, and beautifully written first novel, Last Summer Boys, a story placed on the intersection of private – familial – life and …
Yorktown Senior Fellow Stephen Bryen recently appeared on CPAC with Bill Walton to discuss possible outcomes of the war in Ukraine, China’s lockdown of Shanghai, the lessons of Russia’s struggles for a possible war in the Pacific, and the steps the US can take to stop an invasion of Taiwan.
For all of the advantages that loitering munitions (LMs) offer the US and near-peer states, their true threat may lie in the remarkable ease of their proliferation. Like chemical and biological weapons, LMs are made out of publicly available materials and processes that do not require a traditional industrial base, …
The Future of the Skies, Part III: Marines Lead the Way Continue Reading >>
As with the pikemen of Switzerland and the rifles of the American revolutionaries, preemptive, large-scale integration of novel technology often occurs first in those countries where necessity outweighs the pressure of tradition. Others innovate once conflict erupts and the strictures of peacetime wear thin. Russia has not faced the former …
The Future of the Skies, Part II: The Rise of Loitering Munitions Continue Reading >>
The war in Ukraine shows that the face of battle is changing in favor of small, less costly, and easily portable weapons that negate many of the advantages formerly held by large, complex, and expensive systems. The man-portable Javelin anti-tank missile is a good example. AeroVironment’s Switchblade is another. The …
The Future of the Skies, Part I: The Switchblade Arrives in Ukraine Continue Reading >>
As the attention of the US remains fixed upon the war in Ukraine, a remarkable event took place over the past few days when Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid hosted his counterparts from four Arab nations at Sde Boker, the home and final resting place of Israel’s founding father, David …
The US Must Embrace the Promise of Negev Continue Reading >>
“I think that if China wanted Russia to stop doing this and took action, that it would lead to what the Chinese do not want, and that is a rift between them and the Russians,” Cropsey said. “So I think the prospect of China throwing its weight against Russia for …
China is walking a ‘very slender path’ with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine Continue Reading >>
Yorktown Institute president Seth Cropsey was quoted by George Will in an opinion piece entitled “To avoid nuclear calamity, Biden makes a delicate calibration about Putin” in the Washington Post on March 25, 2022.
