The Cold War ended in 1991. The United States’ commitment to prevent its adversaries’ nuclear ambitions and to extend its nuclear arsenal as an umbrella of protection to its partners has remained ...

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 ...

The Cold War ended in 1991. The United States’ commitment to prevent its adversaries’ nuclear ambitions and to extend its nuclear arsenal as an umbrella of protection to its partners has remained ...

Moscow’s “Oreshnik” strike on January 9, 2026 is best understood as strategic signaling designed to shape what NATO will and ...

My journey to complete the nuclear triad took me aboard both a B-52 and a B-2 stealth bomber, down into a Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile silo and deep beneath the waves on a ballistic ...

The strikes on Iran aimed to reassert existential deterrence, instilling fear, not just readiness, while pressuring NATO to evolve from transactional defense spending to credible strategic deterrence.

The 2026 U.S. National Defense Strategy (NDS) marks a quiet but consequential shift in American defense thinking. Its central ...

This is precisely why President Marcos' strategy of deepening partnerships with like-minded countries is crucial. Deterrence in today’s Indo-Pacific is not built by any single country acting alone. It ...

If China’s long-term objective is to neutralise India while it prioritises Taiwan, India’s central task is not symmetry but ...

Amid recent U.S. statements before the United Nations Security Council confirming that the Sudanese Armed Forces have used chemical weapons in a blatant violation of international law, the world must ...

Robert Peters is a Senior Research Fellow for Strategic Deterrence in Heritage’s Allison Center for National Security. The United States and South Korea face increasingly dangerous threats in China ...