What Is Old Is New Again
What Is Old Is New Again
In her introduction to Volume 8, Issue 2, our editor-in-chief, Sheena Chestnut Greitens, discusses how patterns of continuity and change interact to shape world politics—and the challenges for strategy and scholarship that emerge as a result.
Expanding the Margins for Success: Corbett’s Maritime Strategy Theories and the United States Since 1945
Expanding the Margins for Success: Corbett’s Maritime Strategy Theories and the United States Since 1945
Though Julian S. Corbett wrote for Britain at the turn of the twentieth century, his maritime strategic concepts can apply more broadly to spotlight key challenges the United States has faced since the Second World War. Corbett’s theoretical concepts can…
Ghost in the Machine: Coming to Terms with the Human Core of Unmanned War
Ghost in the Machine: Coming to Terms with the Human Core of Unmanned War
The widespread assumption that the United States can achieve favorable outcomes in war with more machines and fewer humans must be subjected to rigorous scrutiny. This article challenges that assumption through a historical inquiry guided by the catalysts for…
Negotiating Primacy: Strategic Stability, Superpower Arms Control, and the End of the Cold War
Negotiating Primacy: Strategic Stability, Superpower Arms Control, and the End of the Cold War
The United States successfully used the concept of strategic stability to tip the nuclear balance against the Soviet Union during the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) of the 1980s and early 1990s. Both superpowers sought to employ strategic stability to…
Called to Testify: Congressional Oversight of the Armed Forces
Called to Testify: Congressional Oversight of the Armed Forces
Committee hearings are a key mechanism by which Congress conducts oversight and shapes defense policy. The expertise Congress chooses to draw upon in these settings can have important implications for the substance of national security choices, the time…
Best Practices in Grand Strategy Design
Best Practices in Grand Strategy Design
Policymakers often view grand strategy as an academic indulgence, with scholars enjoying the freedom to envision sweeping plans, while they themselves must face more immediate concerns. Although this skepticism is understandable, it is misplaced. This article…
Latest Roundtables
Latest Roundtables
Roundtables are where we get to hear from multiple experts on either a subject matter or a recently published book. These collections of essays allow for detailed debates and discussions from a variety of viewpoints so that we can deeply explore a given topic or book.
Book Review Roundtable: Claire Vergerio’s “War, States, and International Order”
In this roundtable review of “War, States, and International Order: Alberico Gentili and the Foundational Myth of the Laws of War,” the contributors engage with Vergerio’s analysis of canon-making by suggesting ways to broaden its historical scope and highlighting what limits interdisciplinary dialogue.
Book Review Roundtable: The Soviet Search for Recognition as a Superpower
In this roundtable review, Mark Pomar, Kathryn Stoner, Carol Saivetz, Natasha Kuhrt, and Onur İşçi offer their thoughts on Sergey Radchenko’s new book, “To Run the World: The Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Global Power.” These contributors offer a diverse range of perspectives on Soviet foreign policy — and implications for Russian policy today. Plus, Radchenko offers a response.
Book Review Roundtable: Russian Ways of Thinking About Deterrence
In this roundtable review, Michael Kofman, Dara Massicot, Cynthia Roberts, and Michael Petersen discuss Dima Adamsky’s new book, “The Russian Way of Deterrence: Strategic Culture, Coercion, and War.”