Stephen Holmes is a Professor of Law at New York University School of Law and a Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin.
It can take generations to build a reputation for reliability – and a matter of weeks to destroy it. That asymmetry is the most important strategic...
The great theorists of war agreed that squandering one’s military power is the cardinal strategic sin. Sun Tzu, writing some 2,500 years ago, warned that...
A senior US State Department official recently summarized the Trump administration’s approach to regime change in three words: “decapitate and delegate.” Remove an intransigent leader, weaken...
Critics of the attack on Iran by the United States and Israel point out that US President Donald Trump has no plan for what comes...
The Trump administration’s new National Defense Strategy (NDS) places “deterrence” at the center of America’s grand strategy. Deter China from dominating the Indo-Pacific. Deter threats to...
