Category: Strategy
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Nuclear Strategy 411: Introduction
Boiled down to its sublime essence, nuclear strategy can best be defined as — the refined art of how to kill nations while ensuring that one’s own country is not destroyed.
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Must We Shoot From The Hip? by Dr. Bernard Brodie
The surrender of Italy and Japan in the same war, and of Germany and especially of Russia in the previous war, show that the will to resist may collapse long before the physical capacity to do so — provided that that will is properly conditioned by the conqueror and that the seeds of disaffection already…
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Chinese Anti-Access/Area-Denial and the South China Sea by Martin Andrew, PhD
China is a victim of its own geo-strategic circumstances requiring the sea to export its products and receive its raw materials. Much of the raw materials for its economy come through the South China Sea. The Chinese military are looking at ways to control the South China Sea and negate foreign forces, especially the United…
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Sirajuddin Haqqani: A Man Out of History
How does the son of the man who pushed Osama Bin Laden into perpetrating the 9/11 attacks, who’s killed hundreds of Americans and tens of thousands of Afghans in his own war efforts, and has a $10,000,000 bounty on his head get paid $6 million by the United States’ government to run security for it?