Part 1 of 4 in Union Brief’s Series Written by: Nathaniel Rendell   A Brief Foreword to Soft Crusades Buddhism,...

Why American Strategy Must Adapt Before the New Era Becomes Conventional Wisdom   The biggest problem with American politics is...

Why the Rest of the World Must Finally Share the Burden of Global Security   For more than eighty years,...

On June 16, 2026, the Department of War announced that the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command would revert to its former title:...

In the United States, strategic debates often begin with foreign threats: China, Russia, Iran, alliances, and great-power rivalry. These are...

Indonesia’s 2020 ban on raw nickel ore exports was one of the boldest acts of economic nationalism in recent decades....

Why the Indo-Pacific’s Most Successful Trading State Matters Strategically   Few countries benefited more from the postwar international system than...

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz led to worldwide economic stress and revealed a wider strategic vulnerability: when one...

Strategic Perseverance, Time, and Pressure   The US is concentrating on how to wage the Iranian conflict. China might be...

We are frequently informed that Americans live in a republic of self-government. But on many of the nation’s most important...

The central challenge facing the American constitutional republic is no longer diversity itself. The deeper issue is whether a shared...

Modern geopolitical competition is not shaped solely by military capability or economic pressure. It is also shaped by how states...