CJCS Brown: The Pentagon needs to speed up its integrated-deterrence efforts. When the Biden administration rolled out its integrated deterrence concept in 2022, it took a while to explain just what ...

President Bush's new concept of deterrence in the post-Cold War world, which embraces the U.S. deploying offensive and defensive forces, stands in sharp contrast to deterrence strategy outlined in a ...

In a time when the United States and the Western allies appear weak on the international scene, restoring deterrence needs to be Job One as the NATO 75 th anniversary summit begins today in Washington ...

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth exchanged an agreement on the framework for the US-India Major Defence Partnership, marking a significant milestone in strengthening ...

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 ...

EADaily, October 29th, 2025. The French Ministry of Defense announced the day before, on October 28, the completion of work ...

The United States needs a replacement concept for deterrence, the theory that was a child of the Cold War. It no longer is fit for purpose. Why? A war in which there were only losers and no winners ...

Deterrence is not merely about wielding overwhelming force but about creating an environment of uncertainty and fear in the minds of adversaries. Historically, successful deterrence has thrived on ...

A woman walks past tanks of Donetsk People's Republic militia in Mariupol, Ukraine, on Wednesday, May 4, 2022. The Russian invasion of Ukraine, despite U.S. efforts to dissuade Russian President ...

Thus, even the current U.S. deterrence strategy of nuclear retaliation, often referenced as a secure, second-strike capability, is dismissed as unworkable.” Consequently, we are told the U.S. can no ...