War on the Rocks

On this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Michael discusses the upcoming release of his book “Collisions: The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability.”

Nick sat down with Eric Brewer, Dana Stroul, and Gavin Clough to discuss how the conventional, proxy, and nuclear threats Iran poses are evolving.

Although the People’s Liberation Army may dictate the time and location of future aggressive actions, the U.S. joint force and allies can set the conditions now to rapidly adapt and seize the initiative from an authoritarian invading force.

How vulnerable are citizens of democracies to manipulation through social media? Is a more open and less hierarchical media space a national security threat? And what, if anything, should policymakers in democracies do about this issue? Chris Preble, Melanie Marlowe, and Zack Cooper discuss.

More aggressively pushing back against Chinese illegal fishing practices is an opportunity for the U.S. government to highlight its global leadership in a way that directly defends the rules-based international order.

The Seven Years’ War shows that there is more than one way of fighting the kind of war of attrition that we currently see in Ukraine and that, crucially, it is not necessarily vital to out-kill the enemy in order to win.

Autonomous weapons, immune to the psychological factors of combat, are on the horizon and will usher in a new era of lethality.

The success of the Seychelles Coast Guard shows how regional states, however tiny, can play an outsized role not only in countering piracy but also in maritime security in general.

A U.N.-led political process in Yemen provides the best path for addressing the factors inside Yemen motivating the Houthi attacks but that must be coupled with a unified, principled U.N. Security Council posture on the attacks.