As competition with China intensifies, the US cannot afford to alienate Japan and India as nations with a strong sense of national identity

Japan’s military is forbidden by law from sending its troops to fight abroad; so why not send fictional 2D ones instead?

Very smart people, no less than regular people, can become wickedly insane in their political judgments.

The United States cannot pursue a strategy capable of deterring and, if necessary, defeating both China and Russia at the same time alone. We need allies.

America and her allies must understand that the War in Ukraine has never been just about Ukraine

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

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

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

The United States are not prepared for a cold war with China over Taiwan, yet to avoid it, America needs to start acting as if they were already upon them, and learn from the last one.