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Dr. Keith B. Payne Dr. Keith B. Payne is a co-founder of the National Institute for Public Policy, professor emeritus of the Graduate School of Defense and Strategic Studies at Missouri State University and a former deputy assistant secretary of defense. Introduction For five decades Professor Colin Gray’s scholarly writings contributed tremendously to our understanding […]
This is the first of a new quarterly series of reviews focusing on recently published books dealing with topical and noteworthy national security issues. Authors and publishers interested in submitting their books on national security for review may contact the Editor at informationseries@nipp.org. Matthew Kroenig, The Return of Great Power Rivalry: Democracy versus Autocracy […]
Ilan Berman Ilan Berman is Senior Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council in Washington, DC. Earlier this month, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo traveled to Israel on his first foreign visit since the outbreak of the global coronavirus pandemic. The whirlwind one-day trip served as an opportunity for America’s chief diplomat to interface […]
Douglas J. Feith and Shaul Chorev Douglas J. Feith is a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute and served as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from July 2001 until August 2005. Admiral Chorev, who heads the Research Center for Maritime Strategy at the University of Haifa, served as Deputy Chief of the Israeli Navy and […]
Michael Rühle Michael Rühle is Head, Hybrid Challenges and Energy Security, in NATO’s Emerging Security Challenges Division. The views expressed are the author’s own. Introduction: The Appeal of Deterrence The concept of deterrence is congenial to Western democracies. As Lawrence Freedman put it, deterrence strategies “appeal to governments because they can be presented as […]
Vladimír Černý & Petr Suchý Vladimír Černý works as an assistant professor at the Department of International Relations and European Studies at the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic and is also affiliated with the Faculty of Arts of the same university. Petr Suchý currently serves as a vice-dean for internationalization and […]
Dr. Michaela Dodge Dr. Michaela Dodge is a Research Scholar at the National Institute for Public Policy and received her Ph.D. from George Mason University in 2019. Three years ago, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 strengthened U.S. missile defense policy by highlighting the need to counter a growing range […]
Rebeccah L. Heinrichs Rebeccah L. Heinrichs is a Senior Fellow at Hudson Institute specializing in nuclear deterrence and missile defense. Distrust between the United States and Russia grows and with it a fear of an arms race. As the February 2021 deadline for the expiration of the New START nuclear arms treaty approaches, a growing […]
Michael Rühle Michael Rühle is Head, Hybrid Challenges and Energy Security, in NATO’s Emerging Security Challenges Division. The views expressed are the author’s own. Academics often complain about being ignored by decision-makers. Yet people in power are neither uninterested nor uneducated. It’s the academic way of writing and communicating that’s the problem. In the late […]
Hans Rühle Hans Rühle headed the Policy Planning Staff of the German Ministry of Defense from 1982-1988 and is a frequent commentator on German and international security issue. The nuclear deal with Iran was a charade right from the start. In response to the killing of Iranian General Soleimani by a US airstrike, Iran announced […]
Ilan Berman Ilan Berman is Senior Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council in Washington, DC. Quite suddenly, the Islamic Republic finds itself facing serious setbacks in the Middle East. After years of strategic gains fueled by the dividends of its 2015 nuclear deal with the West, Iran’s clerical regime has started to weather […]
Douglas J. Feith and Shaul Chorev Douglas J. Feith is a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute and served as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from July 2001 until August 2005. Admiral Chorev, who heads the Research Center for Maritime Strategy at the University of Haifa, served as Deputy Chief of the Israeli Navy and […]
Rebeccah L. Heinrichs Rebeccah L. Heinrichs is a Senior Fellow at Hudson Institute specializing in nuclear deterrence and missile defense. This week, heads of state are meeting for a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Summit. Two weeks ago, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo went to NATO Headquarters in Brussels for meetings in preparation of that […]
Michael Rühle Michael Rühle is Head, Hybrid Challenges and Energy Security, in NATO’s Emerging Security Challenges Division. The views expressed are the author’s own. Russia’s annexation of Crimea in March 2014 was the greatest challenge for the post-Cold War European security architecture. After two decades of focusing on crisis operations abroad, NATO was forced to […]
Douglas J. Feith and Shaul Chorev Douglas J. Feith is a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute and served as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from July 2001 until August 2005. Admiral Chorev, who heads the Research Center for Maritime Strategy at the University of Haifa, served as Deputy Chief of the Israeli Navy and […]
Curtis McGiffin Curtis McGiffin is the Associate Dean of the School of Strategic Force Studies at the Air Force Institute of Technology and a retired Air Force Colonel. The 2018 National Defense Strategy (NDS) and 2018 Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) have fundamentally reset the strategic direction of the United States military. Most notable is the […]
Dr. Michaela Dodge Dr. Michaela Dodge is a Research Scholar at the National Institute for Public Policy and received her Ph.D. from George Mason University in 2019. Introduction In 2001, the United States announced its decision to withdraw from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM Treaty). Six months later, the treaty-imposed constraints on U.S. ballistic […]
General C. Robert Kehler, USAF (ret.) General C. Robert Kehler is the former Commander, US Strategic Command The United States relies on nuclear weapons to deter adversaries from attacking us and our allies and to assure allies that we will stand by our security commitments to them. While 21st Century strategic deterrence and assurance strategies […]
Steve Lambakis Steve Lambakis is the Director of Space Studies at the National Institute for Public Policy and the Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Comparative Strategy U.S. space systems are the backbone of the U.S. economy and national security. Chinese counter-space weapon developments promise to make the satellite protection mission ever more challenging. There are […]
Steve Lambakis Steve Lambakis is the Director of Space Studies at the National Institute for Public Policy and the Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Comparative Strategy U.S. space systems are the backbone of the U.S. economy and national security. Chinese counter-space weapon developments promise to make the satellite protection mission ever more challenging. There are […]
Dr. Mark Schneider Mark B. Schneider is a senior analyst at the National Institute for Public Policy and a former senior official in the Defense Department. Introduction — The Chinese Quest for Hegemony The most serious long-term national security threat to the U.S. comes from The People’s Republic of China. Its military forces are being […]
Michael Rühle Michael Rühle is Head, Hybrid Challenges and Energy Security, in NATO’s Emerging Security Challenges Division. The views expressed are the authors own. On April 4, 1949, the foreign ministers of the United States, Canada, and ten Western European states met in Washington to sign a novel defense pact. Barely four years after the […]
Dr. Keith B. Payne Dr. Keith B. Payne is a co-founder of the National Institute for Public Policy, head of the Graduate School of Defense and Strategic Studies at Missouri State University and a former deputy assistant secretary of defense. David McCullough’s biography of America’s second president, John Adams, tells us that public service was […]
Matthew R. Costlow Matthew R. Costlow is an analyst at the National Institute for Public Policy and a Ph.D. student in Political Science at George Mason University. Introduction The Long-Range Standoff missile (LRSO) will be a nuclear-armed air-launched cruise missile (ALCM) the U.S. Air Force is scheduled to first deploy in the early 2030s. The […]
Dr. Colin S. Gray Colin S. Gray is the European Director and co-founder of the National Institute for Public Policy, and Professor Emeritus of Strategic Studies, University of Reading. Introduction I suspect that most Americans do not really understand just how powerful the United States is in the world. With very few exceptions the United […]
Dr. Keith B. Payne Dr. Keith B. Payne is a co-founder of the National Institute for Public Policy, head of the Graduate School of Defense and Strategic Studies at Missouri State University and a former deputy assistant secretary of defense. My assigned task here is to discuss challenges ahead in the nuclear environment. There are, […]
Matthew R. Costlow Matthew R. Costlow is an analyst at the National Institute for Public Policy and a Ph.D. student in Political Science at George Mason University. Introduction It is now fashionable among some in the defense community to question the need for the nuclear triad of submarines, bombers, and silo-based missiles. Critics have focused […]
Dr. Mark Schneider Mark B. Schneider is a senior analyst at the National Institute for Public Policy and a former senior official in the Defense Department. Introduction The concept of a conventional deterrent appeared in President Vladimir Putin’s December 2014 version of “The Military Doctrine of the Russian Federation.”[1] The document states, “In the context of […]
Dr. Colin S. Gray Colin S. Gray is the European Director and co-founder of the National Institute for Public Policy, and Professor Emeritus of Strategic Studies, University of Reading Matthew R. Costlow Matthew R. Costlow is an analyst at the National Institute for Public Policy and a PhD student in Political Science at George Mason […]
Dr. Keith B. Payne Dr. Keith B. Payne is a co-founder of the National Institute for Public Policy, the director of the Graduate School of Defense and Strategic Studies at Missouri State University, and a former deputy assistant secretary of defense. Introduction: The NPR and U.S. Political Consensus The 2018 Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) […]
Dr. Keith B. Payne Dr. Keith B. Payne is a co-founder of the National Institute for Public Policy, the director of the Graduate School of Defense and Strategic Studies at Missouri State University and a former deputy assistant secretary of defense. Introduction: On Deterrence Carl von Clausewitz writes that the nature of war has enduring […]
Dr. Mark Schneider< Mark B. Schneider is a senior analyst at the National Institute for Public Policy and a former senior official in the Defense Department. On March 1, 2018, President Putin delivered to the Russian Duma the most rabid speech we have ever heard from him. Putin started by staking a claim to all […]
Hans Rühle Hans Rühle headed the Policy Planning Staff of the German Ministry of Defense from 1982-1988 and is a frequent commentator on German and international security issues. It has become a tradition that every new Administration wants to make its mark on nuclear policy by writing a “Nuclear Posture Review” (NPR). Rarely, however, has […]
Dr. Keith B. Payne Dr. Keith B. Payne is a co-founder of the National Institute for Public Policy, the director of the Graduate School of Defense and Strategic Studies at Missouri State University and a former deputy assistant secretary of defense. Introduction: On Deterrence Carl von Clausewitz writes that the nature of war has enduring […]
Dr. Colin S. Gray Colin S. Gray is the European Director and co-founder of the National Institute for Public Policy, and Professor Emeritus of Strategic Studies, University of Reading. The Problem The basic requirements for deterrence have been well understood for millennia, and for nuclear deterrence since the mid-1950s at least—well before the missile age […]
Dr. Mark Schneider Mark B. Schneider is a senior analyst at the National Institute for Public Policy and a former senior official in the Defense Department. In 2014, the Obama administration determined, “…that the Russian Federation was in violation of its obligations under the INF Treaty not to possess, produce, or flight-test a ground-launched cruise […]
Matthew R. Costlow Matthew R. Costlow is an analyst at the National Institute for Public Policy and a PhD student in Political Science at George Mason University. Moscow, by its own choices, has decided to destroy nearly every basis for good relations with the United States. One area where this erosion of trust is most […]
Steve Lambakis Steve Lambakis is a senior defense analyst at the National Institute for Public Policy. He is the author of the National Institute’s forthcoming publication, Foreign Space Capabilities: Implications for U.S. National Security. The Trump Administration on June 30, 2017 resurrected the National Space Council, which, in the words of the president “will be […]
Hans Rühle Hans Rühle headed the Policy Planning Staff of the German Ministry of Defense from 1982-1988 and is a frequent commentator on German and international security issues. Michael Rühle Michael Rühle is Head, Energy Security, in NATO’s Emerging Security Challenges Division. The views expressed are the authors’ own. We still live in the second […]
Colin S. Gray Colin S. Gray is the European Director and co-founder of the National Institute for Public Policy, and Professor Emeritus of Strategic Studies, University of Reading. There is nothing extraordinary about current Russian-American dislike, distrust, and antagonism. What is happening today is not a return to the much unbeloved Cold War of […]
Hans Rühle Hans Rühle headed the Policy Planning Staff of the German Ministry of Defense from 1982-1988 and is a frequent commentator on German and international security issues. Michael Rühle Michael Rühle is Head, Energy Security, in NATO’s Emerging Security Challenges Division. The views expressed are the authors’ own. According to some recent press […]
Franklin C. Miller Franklin C. Miller is a principal of The Scowcroft Group. He is a retired civil servant, having served 22 years in senior positions in the Department of Defense and four additional years on the National Security Council staff as a special assistant to the President. Miller is a member of the Defense […]
Michael Rühle Michael Rühle is Head, Energy Security, in NATO’s Emerging Security Challenges Division. The views expressed are his own and do not reflect the views of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. In January 2017, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved its iconic “Doomsday Clock” from three to two-and-a-half minutes to midnight. Among the […]
Matthew R. Costlow Matthew R. Costlow is an analyst at the National Institute for Public Policy and a PhD student in Political Science at George Mason University. Everyone loves a leader. “Lead by example” says the old cliché. Yet when applied to U.S. nuclear weapons policy, this cliché has proven to be a failure. Then-U.S. […]
Dr. Keith B. Payne Dr. Keith B. Payne is a co-founder of the National Institute for Public Policy, the director of the Graduate School of Defense and Strategic Studies at Missouri State University and a former deputy assistant secretary of defense. The SW-21 conference sponsors have asked multiple worthy and overarching questions. But given the […]
The Russian Nuclear Weapons Buildup and the Future of the New START Treaty Dr. Mark Schneider Mark B. Schneider is a senior analyst at the National Institute for Public Policy and a former senior official in the Defense Department. On October 1, 2016 the Department of State released the most recent Russian and U.S. data […]
Franklin C. Miller Franklin C. Miller is a principal of The Scowcroft Group. He is a retired civil servant, having served 22 years in senior positions in the Department of Defense and four additional years on the National Security Council staff as a special assistant to the President. Miller is a member of the Defense […]
Colin S. Gray Colin S. Gray is the European Director and co-founder of the National Institute for Public Policy, and Professor Emeritus of Strategic Studies, University of Reading. Scarcely a week has passed recently without new evidence of aggressive Russian opportunism, as best could be characterized by Vladimir Putin’s misbehavior. With its highly reliable ‘Information […]
Franklin C. Miller Franklin C. Miller is a principal of The Scowcroft Group. He is a retired civil servant, having served 22 years in senior positions in the Department of Defense and four additional years on the National Security Council staff as a special assistant to the President. Miller is a member of the Defense […]
Dr. Mark Schneider Mark B. Schneider is a senior analyst at the National Institute for Public Policy and a former senior official in the Defense Department. There is new evidence of possible Russian violations of the INF and New START Treaties. Unfortunately, the Obama administration is not open with the American people about Russian noncompliance, […]
David J. Trachtenberg David J. Trachtenberg is President and Chief Executive Officer of Shortwaver Consulting, LLC. He is also a senior advisor at Renaissance Strategic Advisors and a Wikistrat analyst. From 2001-2003, he served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy and was formerly a Professional Staff Member with the House […]
Dr. Keith B. Payne Keith B. Payne is the president of National Institute for Public Policy, head, Graduate Department of Defense and Strategic Studies, Missouri State University (Washington area campus) and a former deputy assistant secretary of defense. The Obama Administration reportedly is seriously considering adopting a “No-First-Use” (NFU) nuclear policy.[1] A prospective NFU policy would be […]
Dr. Mark Schneider Mark B. Schneider is a senior analyst at the National Institute for Public Policy and a former senior official in the Defense Department. Russia’s 2016 New START data, released by the Department of State, indicate that since New START’s entry into force (EIF) in 2011, Russia has increased its deployed warheads. Russia […]
Dr. Keith B. Payne Keith B. Payne is the president of National Institute for Public Policy, head, Graduate Department of Defense and Strategic Studies, Missouri State University (Washington area campus) and a former deputy assistant secretary of defense. The prospect for a regional war between Russia and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is growing. This reality […]
Kurt Guthe Kurt Guthe is the director of strategic studies of National Institute for Public Policy. Since the end of the Cold War, three overall reviews of the U.S. nuclear posture have been conducted by the executive branch. One was done in 1994 by the Clinton administration, another in 2001 by the Bush administration, and the […]
Dr. Keith B. Payne Keith B. Payne is the president of National Institute for Public Policy, director of the Graduate School of Defense and Strategic Studies at Missouri State University and a former deputy assistant secretary of defense. The US debate about nuclear forces and policy often descends into arcane details. These details can be […]
Dr. Keith B. Payne Keith B. Payne is the president of National Institute for Public Policy, director of the Graduate School of Defense and Strategic Studies at Missouri State University and a former deputy assistant secretary of defense. The US debate about nuclear forces and policy often descends into arcane details. These details can be […]
Kathleen C. Bailey Kathleen C. Bailey is a senior scholar at the National Institute for Public Policy and a former assistant director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. In 1999 the U.S. Senate considered whether to give its advice and consent to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. The Senate found the treaty flawed and rejected it […]
Keith B. Payne Mark B. Schneider Keith B. Payne is the president of National Institute for Public Policy, director of the Graduate School of Defense and Strategic Studies at Missouri State University and a former deputy assistant secretary of defense. Mark B. Schneider is a senior analyst at the National Institute for Public Policy and […]