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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.
Estimating the Number and Characteristics of Russia’s Strategic Nuclear Weapons
Mark B. Schneider
Back to the Future: U.S. Nuclear Deterrence Today and the Foster Panel Study
Keith B. Payne and Matthew R. Costlow
What Do Russia’s Nuclear Threats Tell Us About Arms Control Prospects?
Michaela Dodge
Can Nuclear War Stay Limited?
Matthew R. Costlow
Gen. Glen D. VanHerck, USAF, Commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM)
Michael Rühle, former Head of the Climate and Energy Security Section at NATO
Restraints at the Nuclear Brink:Factors in Keeping War Limited, May 2023
Comparing Soviet, Russian, and Chinese Influence Operations, June 2023
Russia’s New START Suspension: Does Arms Control Matter?, July 2023
John A. Gentry, Neutering the CIA: Why US Intelligence Versus Trump Has Long-Term Consequences
Reviewed by David J. Trachtenberg
John D. Maurer, Competitive Arms Control: Nixon, Kissinger, & SALT 1969-1972
Reviewed by Michaela Dodge
John H. Maurer and Erik Goldstein, eds., The Road to Pearl Harbor: Great Power War in Asia and the Pacific
Reviewed by Matthew R. Costlow
The Rejection of Intentional Population Targeting for “Tripolar” Deterrence
Keith B. Payne
Post-Truth: Impending Tests and Possible Responses
Gary L. Geipel
Subordinating Extended Deterrence to Antiquated Arms Control Initiatives
Keith B. Payne and Michaela Dodge
BeiDou: China’s Constellation of Vassalage
Kathleen Ellis
U.S. Strategic Culture, Homeland Ballistic Missile Defense, and Mutual Vulnerability
Jacob Blank
Assessing the 2022 Missile Defense Review, January 2023
Lessons Learned from Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine—One Year Later, February 2023
The Grand Illusion of Disarmament, April 2023
Jim Popkin, Code Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America’s Most Dangerous Female Spy—and the Sister She Betrayed
Reviewed by David J. Trachtenberg
Mark Galeotti, Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine
Reviewed by Michaela Dodge
Center for Global Security Research (CGSR) Study Group, Brad Roberts, Chair, China’s Emergence as a Second Nuclear Peer: Implications for U.S. Nuclear Deterrence Strategy
Reviewed by Matthew R. Costlow
Document No. 1. Prepared Statement, Hon. Robert G. Joseph before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, June 24, 2010
Document No. 2. Prepared Statement of Dr. Keith B. Payne before the Senate Armed Services Committee, July 27, 2010
Document No. 3. FY 2024 National Defense Authorization Act Passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, Select Excerpts
Document No. 4. FY 2024 National Defense Authorization Act Passed by the U.S. Senate, Select Excerpts
Nuclear Disarmament: The Contemporary Great Illusion?
Keith B. Payne
The Use of Economic Tools to Deter Chinese Military Aggression Against Taiwan
David J. Trachtenberg
Why the Deep Nuclear Reductions Movement Should Focus on Russia and China
Matthew R. Costlow
Gold, Guns, and Whale Oil: Three Impediments to Global Nuclear Zero
John Mark Mattox
Gen. Kevin Chilton (USAF, Ret.), former Commander of U.S. Strategic Command
Thomas Kent, former President and CEO of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Allied Assurance and Extended Deterrence in a Multipolar World, September 2022
The Benefits of Strengthened Homeland Missile Defense, October 2022
Assessing the National Security Strategy and National Defense Strategy, November 2022
Assessing the 2022 Nuclear Posture Review, December 2022
Stella Morabito: The Weaponization of Loneliness: How Tyrants Stoke Our Fear of Isolation to Silence, Divide, and Conquer
Reviewed by Michaela Dodge
Charles Glaser, Austin Long, and Brian Radzinsky (eds.), Managing U.S. Nuclear Operations in the 21st Century
Reviewed by David J. Trachtenberg
Edward Kaplan, The End of Victory: Prevailing in the Thermonuclear Age
Reviewed by Matthew R. Costlow
Document No. 1. Excerpts from the Statement of Dr. John F. Plumb, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy before the House Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Strategic Forces on Fiscal Year 2024 Strategic Forces Posture, March 8, 2023
Document No. 2. Excerpts from the Statement of General Glen VanHerck, United States Air Force Commander, United States Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command before the House Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Strategic Forces on Fiscal Year 2024 Strategic Forces Posture, March 8, 2023
Document No. 3. Excerpts from the Statement of General James H. Dickinson, Commander, United States Space Command before the House Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Strategic Forces on Fiscal Year 2024 Strategic Forces Posture, March 8, 2023
Document No. 4. Excerpts from the Statement of General Anthony J. Cotton, Commander, United States Strategic Command before the House Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Strategic Forces on Fiscal Year 2024 Strategic Forces Posture, March 8, 2023
Document No. 5. Testimony by Greg Weaver, Senior Associate (Non-Resident), Project on Nuclear Issues, CSIS, before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, March 28, 2023
National Strategy for Countering North Korea
Robert Joseph, Robert Collins, Joseph DeTrani, Nicholas Eberstadt, Olivia Enos,
David Maxwell, and Greg Scarlatoiu
Observations on U.S. Nuclear Posture and The War in Ukraine
General Robert C. Kehler, USAF (retired)
Without Precedent: Global Emerging Trends in Nuclear and Hypersonic Weapons
Brian Ellison, Dennis Evans, Matthew Lytwyn, Jonathan Schwalbe
Rethinking Deterrence: How and Why?
Keith B. Payne
Mischaracterizing U.S. Nuclear Deterrence Policy: The Myth of Deliberate Civilian Targeting
David J. Trachtenberg
Deterrence in a Trilateral Strategic Environment, May 2022
Deterring China in the Taiwan Strait, June 2022
Overcoming the Roadblocks to Homeland Missile Defense, July 2022
What to Expect in the 2022 Nuclear Posture Review, August 2022
Keith B. Payne, Chasing a Grand Illusion: Replacing Deterrence With Disarmament
Reviewed by Susan Koch
Ashley J. Tellis, Striking Asymmetries: Nuclear Transitions in Southern Asia
Reviewed by David J. Trachtenberg
Alexander Lanoszka, Military Alliances in the Twenty-First Century
Reviewed by Michaela Dodge
Toby Dalton, Megan DuBois, Natalie Montoya, Ankit Panda, and George Perkovich, Assessing U.S. Options for the Future of the ICBM Force
Reviewed by Matthew R. Costlow
Beatrice Heuser, War: A Genealogy of Western Ideas and Practices
Reviewed by C. Dale Walton