This article was originally published at Divergent Options. Many thanks to the Andrew W. Marshall Foundation for inviting me to review this book. Phil Walter is the founder of Divergent Options.  Divergent Options’ content does not contain information of an official nature nor does the content represent the official position of any government, any organization, or any ..read more

Andor, Episode 10, One Way Out -- Luthen Rael's speech. Lonnie:  "And what do you sacrifice [for the Rebellion against the Empire]?" Luthen Rael:  "Calm, kindness, kinship, love.  I've given up all chance at inner-peace, I made my mind a sunless space.  I share my dreams with ghosts.  I wake up every day to an ..read more

This PDF, specifically chapter 4, "Firepower Strike, Blockade, Landing: PLA Campaigns for a Cross-Strait Conflict" by Michael Casey, is worth a read. crossing-the-straitDownload ..read more

I bet you are using the phrase "Cost Imposition" incorrectly. Read the attached PDF, specifically pages 9-11 on the page or 11-13 in your PDF reader to correct yourself. cost-imposing-strategies-a-brief-primer-1Download ..read more

"Possible Outcomes of the Russo-Ukrainian War and China’s Choice" Written on March 5, 2022. Translated by Jiaqi Liu on March 12, 2022. Original Article: https://uscnpm.org/2022/03/12/hu-wei-russia-ukraine-war-china-choice/ Hu Wei is the vice-chairman of the Public Policy Research Center of the Counselor’s Office of the State Council, the chairman of Shanghai Public Policy Research Association, the chairman of ..read more

On February 4, 2022, the Russian Federation (RF) and the People's Republic of China (PRC) released their "Joint Statement of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China on the International Relations Entering a New Era and the Global Sustainable Development." You can download this joint statement in PDF by clicking here. If the ..read more

"Generals Versus The President: Eisenhower and the Army, 1953-1955" was required reading when I attended the U.S. Army War College. The document is valuable both as a look at civil-military relations and how a vision of national security is implemented within the U.S. Armed Services. You can download the PDF by clicking here ..read more

If you have never read “National Security Council Report, NSC 68, United States Objectives and Programs for National Security,” April 14, 1950, you should.  And, if someone invokes NSC 68 during a conversation, you should ask them if they have actually read it or if they are parroting an interpretation of it.  You can download ..read more

The intellectual underpinnings for the U.S. strategy that won the Cold War came from a generation that won a war. The intellectual underpinnings for today’s strategies for the U.S. to compete with China and Russia come from a generation that lost two AUMFs.  ..read more

This article does an outstanding job in categorizing national interests and describing their intensity level.  This article is extremely useful as a basis for group discussion to make sure everyone is speaking the same language ..read more