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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.
The Need for Our National Security Professionals to Refocus
ADM Charles Richard, USN (Ret.) and Robert Peters
Protecting and Advancing U.S. National Interests in Outer Space
Marc J. Berkowitz
Post-Truth and National Security: Background and Options for a New Administration
Gary L. Geipel
Russia’s Second Front: The Balkans
Stephen J. Blank
ADM Charles Richard, USN (Ret.), former Commander, U.S. Strategic Command, University of Virginia Miller Center’s James R. Schlesinger Distinguished Professor
Congresswoman Jane Harman, Chair, Commission on the National Defense Strategy and Amb. Eric Edelman, Vice Chair, Commission on the National Defense Strategy
Prof. Eliot Cohen, Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Robert E. Osgood Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and Prof. Phillips O’Brien, Senior Associate (non-resident), Center for Strategic and International Studies and Head of the School of International Relations at the University of St. Andrews
Current and Projected Growth of Chinese Nuclear Weapons, August 2024
Just War Theory, Nuclear Weapons, and Deterrence, October 2024
Michael Kimmage, Collisions: The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability
Reviewed by Michaela Dodge
John J. Sullivan, Midnight in Moscow: A Memoir from the Front Lines of Russia’s War Against the West
Reviewed by David J. Trachtenberg
Lyle J. Morris and Rakesh Sood, Understanding China’s Perceptions and Strategy Toward Nuclear Weapons: A Case Study; Chris Andrews and Justin Anderson, China’s Theater-range, Dual-capable Delivery Systems: Integrated Deterrence and Risk Reduction Approaches to Counter a Growing Threat; and, David O. Shullman, John Culver, Kitsch Liao, and Samantha Wong, Adapting US Strategy to Account for China’s Transformation into a Peer Nuclear Power
Reviewed by Matthew R. Costlow
Congresswoman Jane Harman, Chair and Ambassador Eric Edelman, Vice Chair, Report of the Commission on the National Defense Strategy, July 2024
Reviewed by Michaela Dodge
Document No. 1. Eliot A. Cohen and Phillips O’Brien (Foreword by Hew Strachan), “The Russia-Ukraine War: A Study in Analytic Failure,” Center for Strategic and International Studies, September 2024, Select Excerpts
Document No. 2. Svein Efjestad, “The future of the US nuclear guarantee,” Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, September 2024, Select Excerpts
China’s Nuclear Delivery Vehicles
Mark B. Schneider
Germany and Extended Deterrence
Michael Rühle
“Knowing Your Enemy”: James R. Schlesinger and the Rise of Tailored Deterrence
Kyle Balzer
Israel-Hezbollah War and the Islamic Republic of Iran
Masoud Kazemzadeh and Penny L. Watson
David Lonsdale, Senior Lecturer, University of Hull, United Kingdom
Bruno Tertrais, Deputy Director of the Foundation for Strategic Research, France
Adapting U.S. Missile Defense Policy to Evolving Threats, May 2024
The Impact of Arms Control on Extended Deterrence and Assurance, June 2024
Emergence of A New ‘Quad’: The Growing Entente Between China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran, July 2024
Rebeccah L. Heinrichs, Duty to Deter: American Nuclear Deterrence and the Just War Doctrine
Reviewed by Keith B. Payne
Ilan Berman, Challenging Moscow’s Message
Reviewed by Michaela Dodge
James Graham Wilson, America’s Cold Warrior: Paul Nitze and National Security from Roosevelt to Reagan
Reviewed by David J. Trachtenberg
Aaron Bateman, Weapons in Space: Technology, Politics, and the Rise and Fall of the Strategic Defense Initiative
Reviewed by Matthew R. Costlow
Matthew Kroenig and Dan Negrea, We Win, They Lose: Republican Foreign Policy & the New Cold War
Reviewed by Michaela Dodge
Document No. 1. Congressional Testimony of James E. Fanell, CAPT USN (Retired) before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Accountability Hearing on “Defending America from the Chinese Communist Party’s Political Warfare, Part II” June 26, 2024, Select Excerpts
Document No. 2. Washington Summit Declaration issued by the Heads of State and Government participating in the meeting of the North Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C., July 10, 2024, Select Excerpts
Document No. 3. Sweden’s National Security Strategy 2024, Select Excerpts
Document No. 4. Summary of the Commission on the 2024 National Defense Strategy, Select Excerpts
Trends in Allied Assurance: Challenges and Questions
Michaela Dodge
The Challenge of Integrated Deterrence: From the “New Look” to Today
Christopher J. Griffin
Homeland Missile Defense: Responding to a Transformed Security Environment
Robert G. Joseph and Peppino A. DeBiaso
Strengthening Extended Deterrence and Assurance or Alliance Dissolution: A Time for Choosing
Keith B. Payne
The Need for a “Two-War Strategy” to Reinforce Extended Deterrence and Assurance
David J. Trachtenberg
Rod Lyon, Senior Fellow-International Strategy, Australian Strategic Policy Institute
Dong-hyun Kim, International Broadcast Journalist, Voice of America
Lessons Learned from the Israel-Hamas Conflict and Implications for Deterrence, January 2024
NATO at 75: Up to the Challenge?, March 2024
Yaroslav Trofimov, Our Enemies Shall Vanish
Reviewed by Michaela Dodge
Report on Deterrence in a World of Nuclear Multipolarity, Department of State, International Security Advisory Board, October 2023
Reviewed by David J. Trachtenberg
A Luke Griffith, Unraveling the Gray Area Problem: The United States and the INF Treaty
Reviewed by Matthew R. Costlow
Jared M. McKinney, Peter Harris, Deterrence Gap: Avoiding War in the Taiwan Strait
Reviewed by Jennifer Bradley
Document No. 1. Statement of Anthony J. Cotton, Commander, United States Strategic Command, before the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services, February 29, 2024, Select Excerpts
Document No. 2. Statement of General Gregory M. Guillot, United States Air Force, Commander, United States Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command, before the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services, March 14, 2024, Select Excerpts
Document No. 3. Delivering the UK’s Nuclear Deterrent as a National Endeavour Presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Defence by Command of His Majesty, March 2024
The Challenges in Estimating the Number of Russian Nuclear Weapons
Mark Schneider
From Pacifism to Nuclear Deterrence: Norman Angell and the Founding of NATO
Michael Rühle
Morality, Ethics, and National Power
John Mark Mattox
Two Theaters but One War: Why We Should Support Ukraine and Israel
Stephen Blank
Hon. Franklin C. Miller, Principal, the Scowcroft Group, and a Commissioner on the congressionally mandated 2023 Strategic Posture Commission
Dr. Nadia Schadlow, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, and former Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategy
The Size and Characteristics of the Russian Nuclear Stockpile, September 2023
The Rejection of Intentional Population Targeting for ‘Tripolar’ Deterrence, November 2023
John Allen Williams, Stephen J. Cimbala, Sam C. Sarkesian, US National Security: Policymakers, Processes, and Politics, Sixth Edition
Reviewed by David J. Trachtenberg
Thomas Kent, How Russia Loses: Hubris and Miscalculation in Putin’s Kremlin
Reviewed by Michaela Dodge
Ankit Panda, Indo-Pacific Missile Arsenals: Avoiding Spirals and Mitigating Escalation Risks
Reviewed by Matthew R. Costlow
Document No. 1. Fiscal Year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act, Conference Report, Select Excerpts
Document No. 2. Demand for Theater Missile Defense Assets, Statement by Rear Admiral Douglas L. Williams, USN, Director (Acting), Missile Defense Agency, Before the House Armed Services Committee, Strategic Forces Subcommittee December 7, 2023
Document No. 3. Setting Transatlantic Defence up for Success: A Military Strategy for Ukraine’s Victory and Russia’s Defeat, Discussion Paper, December 2023