The United States is engaging in a dangerous exercise in bean-counting. The media hullabaloo over missile magazines and lengthy ship deployments is in fact a distraction from the real issue. American options to fight China, the premier power it faces, have narrowed so thoroughly as to make discussions of stockpiles […]
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This week, Yorktown Institute President Seth Cropsey joined Café Berlin to discuss maritime power, strategic education, America’s alliances, and the role universities must play in preparing the next generation of national security leaders. America possesses formidable military, technological, and economic power. But power alone does not amount to strategy.
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Seth Cropsey and Harry Halem via The Wall Street Journal: Critics and fans alike treat President Trump’s Russia policy as revolutionary: His outreach to Moscow despite Russia’s war of conquest against Ukraine is either a betrayal of American values or a cold-blooded, brilliant attempt at geopolitical realignment against China. In reality,
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In the cascade of epochal events that have battered the foundations of our post-Cold War world in recent years, the phrase “turning point” has become cliché. From Putin’s snatching of Crimea in 2014 to Obama’s near-criminal Iran deal in 2015, ISIS and the Syrian butchery, Brexit and Trump, China’s rise
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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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