Backgrounder: US Military Budget 2025
The US military budget for 2025 maintains the traditional defense posture of out-spending any near-peer competitor; however, its only getting harder to keep pace.
Cambodia Naval Base Gets a Chinese Upgrade
Cambodia insists work on a newly-dredged port and shipyard at Ream Naval Base is not being carried out to enable a permanent Chinese military presence. Washington is not so sure.
China Seeks Atlantic Ocean Military Base
US efforts to rebuff China’s geopolitical advances in Equatorial Guinea are highly reminiscent of the Cold War.
Colonial Pipeline Attack: A Warning for the US Military
The Colonial Pipeline attack should be a warning for defense leaders: Make sure your bases have resilient energy infrastructure or that vulnerability will be used against you.
Outlook 2021: Korean Peninsula Tensions
Will inter-Korean tensions be dialed up or dialed down in the year ahead?
NATO’s Europe Redeployment: Political Opportunism or Sound Military Strategy?
Evaluating the motives, impacts, and strategic consequences of President Trump’s recent decision to shake up the US military footprint in Europe.
Will US Troops End Up Stationed in Iraqi Kurdistan?
What might seem like an appealing option to US military planners is actually fraught with its own geopolitical perils.
Is China Trying to Draw the United States into Imperial Overstretch?
In its competition with the United States, Beijing might be attempting to win without firing a shot.
After Duterte Scraps VFA, What’s Next for the US-Philippine Alliance?
The Visiting Forces Agreement was the glue that held the US-Philippines security relationship together.
The Bering Strait: A New Chokepoint for Great Power Competition
The Northern Sea Route through the Arctic will alter global trade flows and in doing so create new geopolitical chokepoints. Chief among them is the Bering Strait, where US, Russian, and Chinese interests converge.