It might be too early to draw specific tactical and operational lessons from the war in Ukraine but one strategic trend has already emerged. In its wake, nuclear saber-rattling has become an almost daily event. Indeed, it could be hypothesized…

The latest rhetoric from Mad Dog Putin is very concerning. He is dangerously escalating, again. The man is Hitlering up, again. If the very recent past is prologue, watch out. The rhetoric is now approaching literal nuclear levels. “Ukraine, saturated…

If there is a “gathering storm” in the Indo-Pacific, Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe may be the Asian Winston Churchill. In an opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times on April 12, Abe called for the U.S. and Japan…

What can be expected from a leader whose mantra has been to impart strength, menace his neighbors, and project power to faraway theaters but whose military has been dealt a humiliating blow by a smaller, weaker adversary? The short answer…

Since the onset of the Cold War, nuclear weapons were generally regarded as weapons of last resort. They were kept in reserve and their role was solely as a strategic deterrent. In the case of the superpowers, these weapons gave…