Dollars and Sense
Key Points and Summary – America and China tell grand stories about external threats—carrier fleets, alliances, missiles—but the most decisive constraint on both powers...
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Dollars and Sense
The Arctic ice cap is melting much sooner than expected, with important environmental and geopolitical consequences, not the least of which could be a...
Dollars and Sense
If you were to poll the 50 African leaders who attended this month’s Ninth Forum on Africa-China Cooperation Summit in Beijing which nation they...
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Are We Talking About a Trillion Dollars a Year for Defense?: A trillion here and a trillion there. Pretty soon, you are talking about…a...
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Rising Above Partisan Politics to Defend Our Democracy: Former Vice President Dick Cheney, a self-described conservative Republican, has endorsed the candidacy of Vice President...
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Back in 2016, Donald Trump’s presidency beckoned for the extreme before a vote was even cast. He took fringe elements of our society—those motivated...
Dollars and Sense
When I joined the U.S. Navy in 1995, warfare was dominated by physical battlegrounds and traditional combat tactics. Today, that landscape has shifted dramatically....
Dollars and Sense
One of the critical elements of modern warfare, reinforced by the war in Ukraine, is the importance of air superiority and the need to...
Dollars and Sense
Spy balloons are bad. But let's worry a little more about the overall rise of China and its military capabilities because that is the...