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1 Political

• Trump, China, and Declining US Influence in Asia – The Diplomat
• Trump Versus Xi: A Blow-by-Blow Analysis Of The US–China Trade War | ZeroHedge

2 Economics

• Fortifying America’s Pacific Front Line Is Getting Expensive and Difficult - WSJ
• A Grand Strategy of Reciprocity | Foreign Affairs
• Trump Versus Xi: A Blow-by-Blow Analysis Of The US–China Trade War | ZeroHedge

3B Military--Navy

• Shipbuilding, Shareholders, and National Asynchronization
• Fortifying America’s Pacific Front Line Is Getting Expensive and Difficult - WSJ

3C Military--Air

• B-1 Bomber Task Force Deploys to Japan | Air & Space Forces Magazine

4 Diplomatic

• B-1 Bomber Task Force Deploys to Japan | Air & Space Forces Magazine
• Improving U.S. Cooperation with Allies and Partners

5 Strategy

• The Conventional Balance of Terror | Foreign Affairs
• For nuclear deterrence, US policymakers must rely on facts, not hype (defensenews.com)
• United States and North Korea - The United States and North Korea - New Threats, New Challenges (2024)
• United States and China - Why America and China Will Be Enduring Rivals (2024).
• Abetting competition, restraining Beijing: Recommendations for diplomacy toward China (brookings.edu)
• After primacy: US military options in contemporary East Asia (brookings.edu)
• Starving the Dragon: Toward An America-First China Strategy | The National Interest
• Deterring the Dragon . . . From (Under) the Sea | Proceedings - February 2014 Vol. 140/2/1,332 (usni.org)
• America’s China Strategy Is Incomplete | Foreign Affairs
• How to Win the New Cold War: To Compete With China, Trump Should Learn From Reagan (foreignaffairs.com)
• Unsolicited Advice for the U.S. Navy | RealClearDefense
• The US Must Break China’s Chokehold on Our Rare Earth Magnet Supply | Hudson Institute
• Donald Trump Declares War on the Cartels: His Plan Could Change Everything - 19FortyFive
• “Peace Through Strength”: Enhancing America’s Nuclear Deterrence Today — Global Security Review
• The military is a hammer, and not all problems are nails (defensenews.com)
• The Nation Needs a Maritime National Security Strategy | RealClearDefense
• America’s Deterrence Gap | RealClearDefense
• “Iron Dome” for America: A Fresh Look at Homeland Defense - The National Interest
• Nuclear EMP attack: How US, Americans can prepare for ‘very real threat,’ expert says (msn.com)
• Dealing with the World We Are In: Guidance for a Way Ahead - Second Line of Defense (sldinfo.com)
• Grand Strategy – Restrainers vs. Primacists | RealClearDefense
• Only Credible Deterrence Can Assure Lasting Peace - Providence (providencemag.com)
• Deterring Chinese Aggression: Theoretical Approaches for the South China Sea | Small Wars Journal by Arizona State University
• America’s AWOL Defense Spending | RealClearDefense
• Philosopher saints Augustine, Aquinas guide US grand strategy | Responsible Statecraft
• Strengthening Allied Capability for Strategic Success - Military Database - ProQuest
• Trump's 'Reverse Nixon' Strategy: A Dangerous Delusion | RealClearDefense
• Hard Attack on US Soft Power: The Case of USAID - MP-IDSA
• 2025 Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community - USNI News
• America Needs a Real Indian Ocean Strategy | Foreign Affairs
• Underestimating China: Why America Needs a New Strategy of Allied Scale to Offset Beijing's Enduring Advantages (foreignaffairs.com)
• Winning the Next War Will Require an Intel-Logistics Partnership | Proceedings - April 2025 Vol. 151/4/1,466 (usni.org)
• Restoring American Industrial Might to Counter China | RealClearDefense
• A US-China trade war could be catastrophic. What is Trump’s endgame strategy? | CNN Politics
• How Donald Trump Can Rebuild America’s Naval Strength | RealClearDefense
• Obstacles to Integrating Deterrence (ndu.edu)
• New Thinking Needed on National Defense | RealClearDefense
• Win Fast or Lose Big Against China | RealClearDefense
• The U.S. Approach to Defense and Deterrence in the Indo-Pacific | RealClearDefense
• To Bolster Diplomacy and Deterrence Make Our Enemies Fear the Bomber | Hudson Institute
• US - Why Military Action against North Korea Is the Worst Option (2017)
• United States - Strengthening Allied Capbility for Strategic Success (2024)
• United States - George W. Bush's Grand Strategy, Reconsidered (2011)
• United States - US Defense Infrastructure in the Indo-Pacific (2023)
• United States and North Korea - The United States and North Korea - New Threats, New Challenges (2024).
• United States - Reexamining Homeland Defense against North Korea (2020)
• United States - Thinking Through Protracted War with China
• United States - Trump Takes on Xi and Putin at Their Own Great Game (2025)
• United States - Countering Chinese Coercion (2024)
• United States - Integrating U.S. Strategies toward China and North Korea (2021)
• United States - Deterrence By Denial in the Taiwan Strait (2023)
• United States - Military Abilities Needed to Counter China (2022).
• United States - The US Risks Mineral Shortages in a China War (2025)
• America’s New Pacific Army Commander Lays Out His China Strategy (msn.com)
• (Re)Claiming Our Deterrence | RealClearDefense
• A new National Defense Strategy is on the way (federalnewsnetwork.com)
• Why the United States, South Korea, and Japan Must Cooperate on Shipbuilding | RAND
• The U.S. Defense Budget Must Be an Instrument of Lethality | RealClearDefense
• Compass Points - Paparo Praise?
• Is the U.S. Drifting Toward a Taiwan War with China? - The National Interest
• What If Our Assumptions About a War with China Are Wrong? - Modern War Institute
• The U.S. Is Falling Behind in an Arms Race That May Not Exist | RealClearDefense
• To Combat China, U.S. Wants Its Friends to Do More - WSJ
• Pentagon boosts budget for Palantir’s AI software in major expansion of Project Maven - SpaceNews
• Distributed Maritime Operations, Logistics, Industry, and American Strategy in Asia - Military Strategy Magazine
• The US plan for countering China in South America - Asia Times
• USS George Washington’s quiet departure coincides with Chinese naval activity in Pacific | Stars and Stripes
• How Defense Reconciliation Could Fund Indo-Pacific Deterrence | RealClearDefense
• Armada Of USAF Tankers Just Deployed East Over Atlantic Spurring Speculation
• Is the U.S. Vulnerable to a Drone Sneak Attack? - Chronicles
• How the US Attack on Iran Hurts Russia and China | Hudson Institute
• 2025 NATO Summit: Time to Include the Asia-Pacific Democracies | RealClearDefense
• Balancing Acts: Deterrence and Reassurance in U.S.-China Strategy | RealClearDefense
• The Iran Strike Was Also a Message to China | Hudson Institute
• US Military Trains To Defend Panama Canal From China Threat - Newsweek
• Trump may yet smash apart the axis of evil
• Map Shows Reach of US Air Force's Pacific War Games - Newsweek
• Influence by Design: Reassessing U.S. Military Advising | Small Wars Journal by Arizona State University
• Inside the Ring: Pentagon behind on advances in cognitive warfare, Senate report finds - Washington Times
• PLA Navy Shifts Training Focus From Near-Shore to Blue-Water Operations | RealClearDefense
• Increasing Operational Access: A Strategy for the Western Pacific | RealClearDefense
• Report to Congress on Taiwan Defense, Military Issues - USNI News
• U.S. urged to upload multiple warheads to Minuteman III and Trident missiles - Washington Times
• To Put Iran on Ice, the U.S. Must Freeze Out China | RealClearDefense
• 6 Reasons to Say 'No Thanks' to Building U.S. Navy Warships in South Korea | RealClearDefense
• Vandergriff Analysis of "What Would War with China Look Like—in the US Homeland?" Sandor Fabian | 07.15.25, Modern War Institute, USMA.
• Going Soft on China Could Be a Hard Lesson | American Enterprise Institute - AEI
• South China Sea Collision Brings U.S.-Philippines Alliance to the Fore | RealClearDefense
• America's Counterattack on China’s Growing Influence in the Pacific Islands | RealClearDefense
• Should America’s military plan for a retreat from the Pacific?
• Libya’s Partnership with the United States | RealClearWorld
• Should America’s military plan for a retreat from the Pacific?
• Facing China on two fronts, the US needs strategic focus | The Strategist
• The Challenges of a Ukrainian Peace - The American Conservative
• South China Sea Collision Brings U.S.-Philippines Alliance to the Fore | RealClearDefense
• War over Taiwan Is Not in the US Interest | RealClearDefense
• America's Counterattack on China’s Growing Influence in the Pacific Islands | RealClearDefense
• The Wrong War | RealClearDefense
• Why Does China Buy US Farmland? - The National Interest
• US Military Redeployment in Iraq: Strategic Withdrawal or Tactical Shift? | Geopolitical Monitor
• The Real Reason China Hasn't Invaded Taiwan - National Security Journal
• Can Syria's New Leaders and U.S.-Backed Forces Unite to Defeat ISIS? - National Security Journal
• There's Only One Way to Deal with Russia - National Security Journal
• The U.S.’ West Africa and Sahel Challenge | RealClearDefense
• Countering Chinese Aggression with Irregular Warfare | RealClearDefense
• The Return of War as a Tool of Statecraft | OilPrice.com
• The United States in a Multipolar World | RealClearDefense
• US Middle East Strategy After Israel’s Doha Strike - Geopolitical Futures
• US Stands With Philippines Against China's Plan In South China Sea
• The rising US-NATO-Russia security dilemma in the Arctic | Responsible Statecraft    
• A U.S.-China War over Taiwan: Who Wins? - National Security Journal 
• The ROK-U.S. Alliance: Stronger Than the ’Anti-American | RealClearDefense 
• The decline of the West and the rise of ‘the Rest’ will lead to a new world order | Chatham House – International Affairs Think Tank
• Hybrid Warfare and CCP Infiltration: A Shared Challenge for US-Taiwan Security Cooperation | Hudson Institute
• 5 Places World War III Could Start Right Now - National Security Journal  
• Exclusive | U.S. in Talks With Taliban on Returning Counterterrorism Forces to Afghan Base - WSJ  
• China and Russia conduct joint sub patrols — should America worry? 
• The US is preparing for war with Venezuela   
• Next chapter in space defense: Satellites that never stop moving - SpaceNews   
• US Navy Carrier High North Deployment Points to NATO Deterrence Impact of CSG Presence - Naval News    
• Is the U.S. Really Losing to China in Southeast Asia? | RealClearDefense 
• Stop the World: Armies Key to Indo-Pacific Deterrence, Says Former U.S. General | RealClearDefense   
• Talking to Kim Jong Un Could Help Freeze His Nuclear Ambitions – The Cipher Brief  
• The Pentagon’s Missing China Strategy | Foreign Affairs  
• Countering China at Sea: Inside America’s Cook Islands Play - National Security Journal  
• Left-Wing Terrorism and Political Violence in the United States: What the Data Tells Us
• Trump is fighting a historic clash of civilizations against China — here's how to win it  
• U.S. Participating in Ukraine’s Large Scale Attacks on Russian Energy Facilities 
•  Tomahawk Missiles Are Russia’s Latest Red Line. Will Trump Call Putin’s Bluff? | RealClearDefense
• In the blink of an eye, Trump is suddenly winning World War III 
• Tomahawks not sole Trump option for increasing pressure on Putin - Asia Times  
• Venezuela Mobilizes Troops and Militias as U.S. Military Looms Offshore - WSJ 
• The US needs a new Iran strategy if Trump’s Gaza plan is to endure | Chatham House – International Affairs Think Tank
• The Window to Counter Russia in Syria Is Closing | RealClearWorld
• Iraq to Keep Some U.S. Military Advisers Due to Islamic State Threat | RealClearDefense
• Donald Trump Has Triggered a “Time of Troubles” for Canada - Chronicles  
• Experts: US Needs Interagency Approach to Beat China in Cislunar  
• The U.S. Is Preparing for War in Venezuela      
• Why China and Russia Aren’t Scared of the US | American Enterprise Institute - AEI 
• A Frog in a Pot – Turning Around Russia’s Hybrid War | Royal United Services Institute  
• “Will China bury us?,” by Andrew Roberts  
• Drones Won’t Save Us: Learning the Wrong Lessons from Ukraine Will Cost the US Army its Edge in Maneuver Warfare - Modern War Institute
• China’s Rising Influence in the Western Balkans and How the West Should Respond | Small Wars Journal by Arizona State University  
• Losing Perspective: Nuclear Weapons and U.S. National Security Strategy | RealClearDefense
• Before It’s Too Late: The West Must Prepare for Iran’s Next Crisis | RealClearDefense 
• Former Middle East Envoy: A Renewed US-Saudi Alliance for a Changing Middle East | Opinion - Newsweek  
• The Re-Americanization of the Middle East - The National Interest  
• Americans Must Counter China’s Coercion | RealClearDefense
• The Real Story Behind Trump’s F-35 Offer to Saudi Arabia - National Security Journal

6 Grand Strategy

• Call the Axis of Adversaries Whatever You Want, but Take It Seriously | RAND
• Meet Dr. Yan: A Symbol of America’s Failed Response to China’s Research Security Threat | RealClearEducation
• Is NATO Falling Apart? - 19FortyFive
• Grand Strategy – Restrainers vs. Primacists | RealClearDefense
• The breakdown of the CIA - UnHerd
• The Geography of American Power | RealClearDefense
• Secretary Hegseth and the Gathering Storm | RealClearDefense
• Elbridge Colby understands the China threat - Washington ExaminerTaiwan
• Interview with David Ochmanek | Small Wars Journal by Arizona State University
• The Road to Securing European Cooperation on China Runs through Ukraine | RealClearDefense
• The Future of NATO | RealClearDefense
• Trump’s Two-Front Economic Fight | RealClearPolitics
• How the U.K. Deal on Diego Garcia Could Reshape U.S. Military in the Indian Ocean | RealClearDefense
• The Trump Administration's Pursuit of a Sino-Russian Schism | RealClearDefense
• United States and China - Why America and China Will Be Enduring Rivals (2024).
• Are America's Indo-Pacific Friends Flirting with China? | RAND
• The Five Keys of Donald Trump’s Grand Strategy  - The National Interest
• Stress-Testing U.S. Soft Power | RealClearDefense
• AUKUS and Deterrence: What, Exactly, Are We Trying To Deter? | RealClearDefense
• The United States and Indo-Pacific Defense Operations: Adding Prompt Strike to the “Fight Tonight Force” | Defense.info
• On War in 2027: Five Principles to Guide the Army Transformation Initiative - Modern War Institute
• Forging a Global Carrier Network: Leveraging Momentum and Building Structure for Repetition - Center for Maritime Strategy
• The End of Extended Deterrence in Asia? | Foreign Affair
• To Counter Beijing, Try a ‘Many Chinas’ Policy - WSJ 
• Compass Points - Short War?
• A Crisis of American Power: Competing for Legitimacy, Influence, and Capacity in the 21st Century | Small Wars Journal by Arizona State University
• The Right Path to Better Deterrence | RealClearDefense
• The West has forgotten the art of strategy - UnHerd
• The US Is Already Losing the Next War - The National Interest
• Transform, Campaign, Repeat: Winning in the Indo-Pacific - Modern War Institute
• To Deter China, Peace through Strength Cannot be Just a Catch Phrase | RealClearDefense
• Compass Points - China Myopia

• US Military Plans Reaper Drone Operations Near China, North Korea - Newsweek

• Three Ways America’s World Order Could Collapse | American Enterprise Institute - AEI

• From High Seas to Highlands: Framing U.S. Defense Strategy With Southeast Asiaâ•Žs Geography

• To Deter in the Present Tense | RealClearDefense

• War over Taiwan Is Not in the US Interest | RealClearDefense

• Rebuilding Strategic Depth | Hudson Institute

• Facing China on two fronts, the US needs strategic focus | The Strategist

• Mahan, Mackinder, and the New ‘Problem of Asia’ - Providence

• Critical Thinking in Special Forces | RealClearDefense

• To Deter in the Present Tense | RealClearDefense

• A Smarter Path to Maritime Strength | RealClearDefense

• Alliance That Goes Far Beyond AUKUS | RealClearDefense

• Don’t Abandon AUKUS: The Case for Recommitting to—and Revitalizing––the Alliance

• The AUKUS Inflection: Seizing the Opportunity to Deliver Deterrence

• NATO’s Early Cold War Lessons Show What US, Japan, and South Korea Must Do Now » Wavell Room

• Aging US Nuclear Missiles Could Be Extended Until 2050, Air Force Says - Bloomberg

• Countering the People’s Republic of China’s Maritime Insurgency in the South Pacific | Center for International Maritime Security

• The Evolution of Air Defense: Adapting to Emerging Threats

• Making U.S. Middle East Policy Sane Again - Tablet Magazine

• Why the U.S. Cannot Ignore China-Russia Eurasian Designs | RealClearDefense      

• The Force We Need: Stand-off and Penetrating Airpower   | Air & Space Forces Magazine              

• Don’t Overestimate the Autocratic Alliance | Foreign Affairs

• War and the Modern Battlefield: Insights from Ukraine and the Middle East  

• US, India Maintain Military Ties Even as Trade Frictions Mount  

• China Hardens Military Stance Against U.S. With Nuclear Weapons and Tough Talk - WSJ      

• America’s policy of ‘containing’ China is on the brink - Brussels Signal 

• Deconstructing Deterrence — Global Security Review   

• What is the US Military Preparing For? Force Design and the Pathology of Lessons Learned - Modern War Institute   

• Airpower for the Post-Dominance World: Restoring US Air Superiority Through a New Combined Arms Approach | Hudson Institute   

• New Pentagon strategy to focus on homeland, Western Hemisphere    

•  Brent Ramsey: The Status of the Navy: Part I | The Patriot Post

•  Brent Ramsey: The Status of the Navy: Part II | The Patriot Post       

•  Brent Ramsey: The Status of the Navy: Part III | The Patriot Post        

• How US Should Respond after China Rejects Trump Nuclear Talks, Shows Off New Weapons at Parade | Hudson Institute

• Global Democracy Is Failing. Will the US Save It or Kill It? | American Enterprise Institute - AEI   

• Donald Trump's Golden Dome triggers Vladimir Putin's fears of U.S. space weapons - Washington Times    

• Explaining Trump’s Surprising Turn to Pakistan  

• The Future of the ROK-U.S. Alliance: Adapting to a Changing World  

• Report to Congress on U.S.-Russia Nuclear Arms Control - USNI News

• Don’t Restart the Afghanistan War - The American Conservative

• Chivvis_Alliances_report-2025.pdf      

• Risk Makes Deterrence Effective | Proceedings - October 2025 Vol. 151/10/1,472 

• Space is a critical battlefield, and the West is losing | Bert Chapman » IAI TV  

• The First 48 Hours of a War With China 'Could Be Ugly' - National Security Journal 

• Stabilizing the U.S.-China Rivalry | RAND 

• Irregular Solutions for Irregular Threats: Maritime Lessons from Dutch Counterpiracy Operations in Colonial Indonesia | Small Wars Journal by Arizona State University

• U.S., China, and the Middle East Redraw the Map As Russia Falters | RealClearDefense    

• Turning Back the Clock: Leveraging Game Theory Across the Conflict Continuum | Small Wars Journal by Arizona State University      

• Western Pacific Deterrence | RealClearDefense

• Venezuela isn’t just a dictatorship — it’s a criminal threat to US security

• Toward a Taiwan Truce | Foreign Affairs

• The U.S. Is on Track to Lose a War With China

• The West Needs To Draw the Line on Russian, Chinese Grey-Zone Provocations | RealClearDefense

• The United States Needs a Global War Plan for China | Proceedings - November 2025 Vol. 151/11/1,473

• China's Seven Fears When it Comes to America | Hudson Institute

• War in the Modern Age: The Social Media Dimension of the War in Ukraine - Second Line of Defense

• America and Israel Won the Battle—But Iran Is Already Plotting the Next War | RealClearDefense

• Integrated Deterrence 2.0 | RealClearDefense

• The Right Fight in the Wrong Frontier | RealClearDefense

• The U.S. Should Open a 'School of the Philippines' to Deter China | RealClearDefense

• How War in Taiwan Ends | Foreign Affairs

• Inside the Ring: Donald Trump keeping secrets on Taiwan scenario - Washington Times

• Western Promises and Russia’s Red Lines - The American Conservative

• Inside the Ring: Stratcom nominee: Nuclear danger growing - Washington Times

• Sensing in the Shadows - Marine Corps Association

• Microinsurgency: Introducing and Defining a Distinct Category of Intrastate Conflict | Small Wars Journal by Arizona State University

• Why Officially Opposing Taiwan’s Independence Would Increase Risks of War - The National Interest

• Control the Hemisphere, Contain China: Inside America’s Two-Front Strategy - National Security Journal

• From Saigon to the Pentagon: Hung Cao's Journey and the Transformation of Pacific Defense | Defense.info

• Nuclear Deterrence Reconsidered: The Emerging Threat of Limited Nuclear Warfare - Military Strategy Magazine

• Ready for War: A Way Forward for Industrial Preparedness | Center for International Maritime Security

• Kristi Noem signs agreement with Canada, Finland to expand Arctic defense efforts

• America’s Allies Should Go Nuclear: Selective Proliferation Will Strengthen the Global Order, Not End It