Indo-Pacific

As China seeks to impose its closed vision of the oceanic commons, the US must counter this approach and recommit to its maritime heritage.

The strategic anxiety of encirclement has driven great-power policy for centuries; Russia and China represent the modern version of this classic security dilemma.

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.

What did a man who encountered both Gandhi and Hitler have to say about the prospects of non-violence? 

Porter Halyburton’s extraordinary memoir of his POW experience is a testament to the power of choice and human liberty

As military spending spirals, should Tokyo consider channeling the free-market spirit of the 1980s?

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

In Japan, even the dead get a say in how the nation’s war-machine should be run by the living.