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National Institute is pleased to announce its new publication, the Journal of Policy & Strategy—a quarterly, online, and peer-reviewed journal. In addition to the efforts of the contributing and managing editors, this new journal will be supported by a world-class Board of Editorial Advisors with diverse expertise and professional backgrounds, as is befitting a publication focusing on policy and strategy. Our priority goal is to include thoughtful, well-researched articles from a range of views, including the work of both younger and well-established authors.
Regular features of the Journal of Policy & Strategy will include:
The editors would like to welcome readers to the Journal of Policy & Strategy. All issues will be posted at the National Institute website and so be available to all readers without restrictions or charge. Every issue will be in the public interest and well worth the read.
Putin’s New START Offer: We Won’t Get Fooled Again
Michaela Dodge and Keith B. Payne
Time To End New START: The Treaty Is Not in America’s Security Interest
James H. Anderson and David J. Trachtenberg
Understanding China and U.S. Opportunities
Rodger Baker
DIMET: Reconfiguring Global Power in the Techno-Strategic Age
Curtis McGiffin
Competing on the Periphery: A New Approach to the Arctic
Cody Stamm
Ambassador Henry Cooper, former Director of the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO)
Implications of the Middle East Conflict on Deterrence and Nonproliferation, July 2025
A New Strategic Review for a New Age: 2025, August 2025
National Institute for Deterrence Studies, Peace Through Strength: Renewing America’s Nuclear Deterrent—A Proposed Nuclear Posture Review for 2026
Reviewed by David J. Trachtenberg
A. Wess Mitchell, Great Power Diplomacy: The Skill of Statecraft from Attila the Hun to Kissinger
Reviewed by Michaela Dodge
Document No. 1. The White House, National Security Strategy of the United States of America, November 2025 (select excerpts)
Document No. 2. Senate Armed Services Committee, Hearing to Consider the Nomination of Honorable Robert P. Kadlec to be Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Deterrence, Chemical, and Biological Defense Policy and Programs, November 4, 2025 (select excerpts)
Document No. 3. Statement, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, The White House, September 30, 2025
Document No. 4. Reva Price and Randall Schriver, et al., Report to Congress of the U.S.-China Economic and Review Commission, November 2025, “Executive Summary” (select excerpts)
Responsive Infrastructure
Thomas Scheber
Why Does America Need a Golden Dome?
Keith B. Payne
Why Arms Control Must Fail
David J. Trachtenberg
A “One-War” Warfighting Construct No Longer Applies to U.S. Nuclear Strategy
Paul Amato
Tailoring Deterrence: What and Why?
Sarah Faris
Assessing China’s Belt and Road Initiative: A Societal Framework
Safdar Hussain
Kenton White, Lecturer, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Reading, UK
David Lonsdale, Senior Lecturer in War Studies and Director Postgraduate Taught Programmes, Hull University, UK
Opportunistic and Coordinated Aggression: The New Pacing Threats?, April 2025
Honoring the Late Dr. John S. Foster Jr.: A Lifetime of Service to the Nation, June 2025
Paul Robinson, Russia's World Order: How Civilizationism Explains the Conflict with the West
Reviewed by David J. Trachtenberg
Matthew Fuhrmann, Influence Without Arms: The New Logic of Nuclear Deterrence
Reviewed by Michaela Dodge
Document No. 1. Benjamin Netanyahu, “Statement by PM Netanyahu,” June 13, 2025
Document No. 2. Ministry of Defence of the United Kingdom, Strategic Defence Review, 2025, Introduction and Overview
Document No. 3. 119th Session, U.S. Congress, An Act, January 3, 2025, Sec. 20008. Enhancement of Resources for Nuclear Forces
Document No. 1. George H. Miller, Paul S. Brown, Carol T. Alonso, “Report to Congress on Stockpile Reliability, Weapon Remanufacture, and the Role of Nuclear Testing,” Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, October 1987, Executive Summary
Document No. 2. Donald H. Rumsfeld, Annual Report to the President and the Congress (Washington, D.C.: Department of Defense, 2002), Chapter 7
Special Feature: Deterring the New Pacing Threats: Opportunistic and Coordinated Aggression
Matthew R. Costlow
Thinking About Russian Nuclear Weapons Thinking
Christopher Ford
Restoring Deterrence and Freedom of Navigation in the Red Sea: The Interaction of Regional and Foreign Actors
Stephen Blank
The Disorderly Advent of the Tripolar Nuclear Order
Wannes Verstraete
Thomas Scheber, former Director of Strike Policy and Integration, Office of the Secretary of Defense
Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: Three Years On, February 2025
Next Steps in Homeland Missile Defense, March 2025
Robert M. Soofer, et al., “First we will defend the homeland”: The case for homeland missile defense
Reviewed by David J. Trachtenberg
James H. Anderson and Daniel R. Green (eds.), Confronting China: US Defense Policy in an Era of Great Power Competition
Reviewed by Michaela Dodge
Sergey Radchenko, To Run the World: The Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Global Power
Reviewed by Matthew R. Costlow
Document No. 1. Statement of General Anthony Cotton, Commander, United States Strategic Command before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, March 26, 2025, select excerpts
Document No. 2. Statement of General Stephen N. Whiting, Commander, United States Space Command before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, March 26, 2025, select excerpts
Document No. 3. Remarks by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte with U.S. Vice President JD Vance in the margins of the Munich Security Conference, February 14, 2025
Document No. 4. Remarks by Vice President James David Vance, Munich Security Conference, February 14, 2025
Document No. 5. Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service, International Security and Estonia 2025, select excerpts
Document No. 1. Thomas K. Scheber, John R. Harvey, Assessment of U.S. Readiness to Design, Develop and Produce Nuclear Warheads: Current Status and Some Remedial Steps (Fairfax, VA: National Institute Press, August 2015), Executive Summary
Document No. 2. Keith B. Payne and John S. Foster Jr., et al., A New Nuclear Review for a New Age (Fairfax, VA: National Institute Press, April 2017), Executive Summary
A Modest Proposal to Improve Joint Professional Military Education
ADM Charles Richard, USN (Ret.) and Robert Peters
The Biden Administration’s Nuclear Weapons Employment Guidance – Increased Cost and Reduced Deterrent Effectiveness
Mark Schneider
Academia and the Armed Forces: Formal Colleagues or Passing Acquaintances?
Kenton White
U.S.-Iran Confrontation after the Hamas-Israel War: Proxy Wars, Nuclear Strategy, and Eschatology
Masoud Kazemzadeh
The 1991-1992 Presidential Nuclear Initiatives and the Cascading Effects on U.S. Alliances
Matthew R. Costlow
The 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty:
When Strategic Arms Control Undercuts U.S. Extended Deterrence and Assurance Goals
Michaela Dodge and Keith B. Payne
The Impact of Arms Control Misconceptions on Extended Deterrence and Assurance
David J. Trachtenberg and Keith B. Payne
Martin Kroupa, Head of Regional Development, Post Bellum Nonprofit Organization (Czech Republic)
The Honorable James Anderson, former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, and Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans, and Capabilities
Nuclear and Missile Defense Policy in the Second Trump Administration: What to Expect and What Should be Done, November 2024
Dmitri Alperovitch (with Garrett Graff), World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century
Reviewed by Michaela Dodge
Heather Williams, Reja Younis, Lachlan MacKenzie, Christopher A. Ford, Rebecca Davis Gibbons, Ankit Panda, Melanie W. Sisson, and Gregory Weaver, Project Atom 2024: Intra-War Deterrence in a Two-Peer Environment
Reviewed by Matthew R. Costlow
Julia Davis, In Their Own Words—How Russian Propagandists Reveal Putin’s Intentions
Reviewed by David J. Trachtenberg
Document No. 1. U.S. Department of Defense, Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China, December 2024, Select Excerpts
Document No. 2. Speech by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at the Concert Noble, Brussels, “To Prevent War, NATO Must Spend More,” December 12, 2024
Document No. 3. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, President of the Russian Federation, Fundamentals of State Policy of the Russian Federation on Nuclear Deterrence, December 3, 2024
Document No. 4. U.S. Department of Defense, Report on the Nuclear Employment Strategy of the United States, November 15, 2024
Document No. 5. Marek Menkiszak, Winning the War with Russia (Is Still Possible). The West’s Counter-Strategy Towards Moscow, Centre for Eastern Studies, October 2024, Select Excerpts