The primary deterrence challenge facing the United States today is preventing aggression and escalation in limited conventional conflicts with a nuclear-armed adversary. It is a difficult conceptual and practical challenge for both conventional and nuclear strategy—but existing Pentagon strategy development processes are not equipped to integrate these tools to meet the challenge.
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With only 60 percent of Americans reporting that they’re willing to take a coronavirus vaccine, it’s not enough for the government to…
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This report uses data gathered from multilingual sources to explore China's motivations behind its systematic ADIZ intrusions as well as the implications for Japanese, South Korean, Taiwanese, and U.S. forces operating in Northeast Asia.
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The Trump administration is expected to unveil an executive action in the near future that would significantly restrict temporary (“nonimmigrant”) work visa categories. While there are multiple public data sets…
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The president and his secretary of state made a startling claim last week: that there is enough evidence to suggest with a high degree of confidence that the Wuhan Institute…
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As lawmakers in the United States turn their focus to fighting the scourge of COVID-19, they will need to come up to speed quickly on the science behind the virus…
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The US President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology is composed of accomplished individuals from academia and industry who volunteer to help the president. Cabinet secretaries and other federal…
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The New Voices in Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (“New Voices”) project was established by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to provide diverse perspectives on emerging…
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