France’s centuries-long quest for strategic autonomy has more often than not led to bad outcomes for the French.

President Kennedy understood the need to counter America’s enemies without precipitating WWIII.

The return of Maoist-style agricultural communes in China are a foreboding sign of a return to the China of half a century ago.

William Pitt, The Elder, 18th Century Prime Minister of Britain, offers many lessons for American statesmen today.

There is no peacetime in the Maoist worldview. The Chinese spy balloon was one more means for Beijing to turn the strategic environment to its advantage.

Understanding the Chinese idea of Just War is essential to understanding Chinese military doctrine.

Whether in days, months, years or decades, the regimes in China, Russia and Iran will tumble.

“China has been a principal economic and military partner of the various Myanmar and Burma regimes since the beginning.”

A Critical Review of The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict by Elbridge Colby, Yale University Press, 2021.