Drones have the potential to enhance nuclear deterrence, but they also introduce significant risks in terms of escalation control and first-strike stability. Drones and other autonomous vehicle ...
The following speech was delivered by the Hon. Dr. Kevin Rudd to the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, on February 18, 2025. It is reproduced here in full. The Naval War College was ...
Robert Peters is a Senior Research Fellow for Strategic Deterrence in Heritage’s Allison Center for National Security. Extended deterrence is a stabilizing force that allows Americans to focus on ...
Soon after the U.S. Space Force rewrote its mission statement, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall stated the Air Force and Space Force “cannot sustain deterrence by standing still.” He believes ...
In an elaborate ceremony in August this year, North Korea celebrated the delivery of 250 nuclear-capable missile launchers to frontline military units. To a crowd of spectators, leader Kim Jong Un ...
Your adversaries and closest allies might not need nuclear weapons to achieve deterrence — they just need you to believe they could build them at any moment. This strategy, which I detailed in a new ...
The era of great power “strategic competition” has seen deterrence as both a concept and operational objective return to a place of pre-eminence in national defense and strategic policy not seen since ...
The United States and its allies are facing a crisis of deterrence. China is menacing Philippine vessels in the South China Sea and possibly readying its military for an invasion of Taiwan. Russia ...