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1. Political

• For nuclear deterrence, US policymakers must rely on facts, not hype (defensenews.com)
• Trump Speaks Truth to Power | RealClearDefense
• Major focus of Trump’s foreign policy to be on China challenge: Lisa Curtis | News Today News - The Indian Express
• How to Win the New Cold War: To Compete With China, Trump Should Learn From Reagan (foreignaffairs.com)
• Donald Trump Declares War on the Cartels: His Plan Could Change Everything - 19FortyFive
• JD Vance Unveils America’s AI Doctrine - The National Interest
• Trump 2.0 Keeps Its Eye on the Prize in Showdown with China | Hudson Institute
• Trump, Xi, and the false hope of a grand bargain (brookings.edu)
• Trump’s Foreign Policy Abandons Ideology for the Balance of Power | RealClearDefense
• Uncertainty Is Trump’s Brand. But What if He Already Told Us Exactly What He’s Going to Do? | The New Yorker (archive.is)
• Trump's 'Reverse Nixon' Strategy: A Dangerous Delusion | RealClearDefense
• Military Paradigm Swinging Away from Wokeism Toward Meritocracy | RealClearDefense
• Trump’s Actions Could Ignite a New Nuclear Age | RealClearDefense
• To Confront China, President Trump Should Target its SOEs | RealClearDefense
• The Second Trump Administration and Southeast Asia - MP-IDSA
• Trumpian Geoeconomics - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• Obscurity by Design: Competing Priorities for America’s China Policy | RealClearDefense
• Trump’s Two-Front Economic Fight | RealClearPolitics
• David Sacks on X: "They did everything they could to create a panic. They predicted a Black Monday that never came. They became jubilant over an intraday correction on Tuesday. They were rooting for Trump to fail even if it meant the market and economy crashed. Fortunately their hopes have been" / X
• Trump's Life's Work Culminates in Confronting Communist China | RealClearPolitics
• America’s Next War Begins at Home | RealClearDefense
• The Plane Truth: Playing Chicken With China, Trump Goes Gulf-ing, Tensions In South Asia | Hoover Institution The Plane Truth: Playing Chicken With China, Trump Goes Gulf-ing, Tensions In South Asia
• How Trump Admin Links Harvard to Chinese Military | RealClearDefense
• The Trump Doctrine: Speak Loudly and Carry a Big Stick - Providence
• Tech Deals and Trump’s West Asia Trip - MP-IDSA
• A new US-Africa blueprint for Trump amid China’s rise
• Trump doesn’t know how to deal with China. His cowardice only makes a war with Taiwan more likely | Simon Tisdall | The Guardian
• U.S.-China agree on framework to implement Geneva trade consensus
• Prosperity and power: Trump’s selective US-Africa summit and the race with China | Brookings
• Trump’s ‘Sheriffs’ Can’t Keep the Peace With China | American Enterprise Institute - AEI
• Trump may yet smash apart the axis of evil

2. Economic

• How America Can Stay Ahead of China in the AI Race | RealClearDefense
• Trump Signs Executive Order Boosting Deep-Sea Mining Industry (gcaptain.com)
• America and Vietnam Keep Getting Closer - 19FortyFive
• America’s AWOL Defense Spending | RealClearDefense
• Navy Shipbuilding Crisis: GAO Finds Billions Spent Without Strategy as Fleet Goals Remain Unmet (gcaptain.com)
• To Confront China, President Trump Should Target its SOEs | RealClearDefense
• Trumpian Geoeconomics - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• Why US shipbuilding is the worst and more money won't save it | Responsible Statecraft
• Gunboats and Dollar Diplomacy | RealClearDefense
• Restoring American Industrial Might to Counter China | RealClearDefense
• A US-China trade war could be catastrophic. What is Trump’s endgame strategy? | CNN Politics
• Trump's Life's Work Culminates in Confronting Communist China | RealClearPolitics
• America’s Last Stand: China’s Smart Battery Dominance | RealClearDefense
• Tariffs Can Help Secure U.S. Critical Mineral Supply Chains—if They’re Done Right | RealClearDefense
• Beyond Tariffs: What the U.S. Can Learn from China's Industrial Playbook | RAND
• United States - The US Risks Mineral Shortages in a China War (2025)
• Amphib Maintenance ‘Vexing’ Hindrance to Fleet Readiness (nationaldefensemagazine.org)
• The U.S. Defense Budget Must Be an Instrument of Lethality | RealClearDefense
• Maintaining American Military Primacy Without Breaking the Bank — Global Security Review
• Understanding the Temporary De-Escalation of the U.S.-China Trade War
• The U.S. Is Falling Behind in an Arms Race That May Not Exist | RealClearDefense
• The US Must Break China’s Chokehold on Our Rare Earth Magnet Supply | Hudson Institute
• Pentagon boosts budget for Palantir’s AI software in major expansion of Project Maven - SpaceNews
• Hegseth says US will not be 'pushed out' of Indo-Pacific, calls on allies to boost defense spending - Breaking Defense
• Tech Deals and Trump’s West Asia Trip - MP-IDSA
• China and Rare-Earth Elements: Is Trump Blinking on Tariffs? - MP-IDSA
• How Defense Reconciliation Could Fund Indo-Pacific Deterrence | RealClearDefense
• U.S.-China agree on framework to implement Geneva trade consensus
• Trump Strikes a Deal to Restore Rare Earths Access
• The Real U.S.-China Trade Fight Isn’t About Exports
• Trump Won the Trade Pact With China, In Many Ways | RealClearMarkets
• Trump’s Mineral Policy Offers Strategic Opportunity in the Pacific | RealClearDefense
• The Quad and the Critical Minerals Initiative - MP-IDSA
• The West Can’t Survive the Sanctions It Needs to Deter China – The Diplomat
• Prosperity and power: Trump’s selective US-Africa summit and the race with China | Brookings
• Trump losing leverage as China trade war fires duds - Asia Times
• The Quad, Africa, and Competition for Critical Minerals - MP-IDSA

3. Military

3a. Military- - Land

• Installations Combat Element - Military Database - ProQuest
• After primacy: US military options in contemporary East Asia (brookings.edu)
• The military is a hammer, and not all problems are nails (defensenews.com)
• The Army and the New Paradigm of Ground Combat: Lessons from Ukraine’s Failed 2023 Counteroffensive - Modern War Institute (westpoint.edu)
• Relearning the Timeless Lessons of Land Operations in Asia - Modern War Institute (westpoint.edu)
• The Army Is Losing Nearly One-Quarter of Soldiers in the First 2 Years of Enlistment | Military.com
• Installations Combat Element - Military Database - ProQuest
• The Urgency of Warfighting Renewal: Five Principles for Todayâ•Žs Professional Military Education (ndu.edu)
• U.S. Army Readies Second Typhon Battery for Pacific Deployment | RealClearDefense
• US military vehicles to get Israel’s high-tech drone-zapping targeting (interestingengineering.com)
• Is the U.S. Army Ready for World War III?
• US - Why Military Action against North Korea Is the Worst Option (2017)
• United States - Military Abilities Needed to Counter China (2022).
• Army Pacific Accelerates Watercraft to Transport Tanks, Armor & Weapons - Warrior Maven
• The U.S. Can’t Handle a War | American Enterprise Institute - AEI
• Maintaining American Military Primacy Without Breaking the Bank — Global Security Review
• On War in 2027: Five Principles to Guide the Army Transformation Initiative - Modern War Institute
• Is the U.S. Drifting Toward a Taiwan War with China? - The National Interest
• America Let Its Military-Industrial Might Wither. China’s Is Booming. - WSJ
• U.S. Troops in Korea May Soon Switch Focus From Pyongyang to Beijing | RealClearDefense
• Hegseth says US will not be 'pushed out' of Indo-Pacific, calls on allies to boost defense spending - Breaking Defense
• Compass Points - Short War?
• Air power is not enough | Peter Caddick–Adams | The Critic Magazine
• Compass Points - China Myopia
• Getting the Marine Corps Out of the Chinese Finger Cuffs | The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• US Military Trains To Defend Panama Canal From China Threat - Newsweek

3b. Military - Navy

• How Donald Trump Can Rebuild America’s Naval Strength | RealClearDefense
• War Without Surprises: Education for Command in the PLA Navy | Center for International Maritime Security (cimsec.org)
• Deterring the Dragon . . . From (Under) the Sea | Proceedings - February 2014 Vol. 140/2/1,332 (usni.org)
• Philippines, U.S. Hold Joint Maritime Exercises In South China Sea (gcaptain.com)
• How America Can Rebuild Its Fleet to Counter China’s Maritime Dominance | Hudson Institute
• Unsolicited Advice for the U.S. Navy | RealClearDefense
• Small Surface Combatants Could Solve Navy's Fleet Size Woes (nationaldefensemagazine.org)
• The Rise of the Drone Boats | WIRED
• The Nation Needs a Maritime National Security Strategy | RealClearDefense
• Warship Weapons for Merchant Ship Platforms | Proceedings - February 2025 Vol. 151/2/1,464 (usni.org)
• Three Steps to Build America’s Naval Power - WSJ
• Righting the Ship: Strengthening US Navy Shipbuilding and Ship Repair | Hudson Institute
• A New Way of Thinking About Naval Power | RealClearDefense
• America’s Future Depends on Rebuilding the Navy | RealClearDefense
• Strengthening Pacific Security: U.S. Shiprider Agreements | RealClearDefense
• U.S. Navy Year in Review | Proceedings - March 2025 Vol. 151/2/1,465 (usni.org)
• In Shipbuilding, the U.S. Is Tiny and Rusty - WSJ
• Navy Shipbuilding Crisis: GAO Finds Billions Spent Without Strategy as Fleet Goals Remain Unmet (gcaptain.com)
• Is the United States Becoming a Hollow Maritime Power? – The Diplomat
• The U.S. Navy's 237 Ship Fleet Amid Shipbuilding Woes | RealClearDefense
• Seapower: An American Imperative | RealClearDefense
• Operational Maneuver From the Sea: the Marine Corps’ Lost Opportunity (thedefensepost.com)
• The Navy needs a 180-degree pivot: Embracing autonomy and AI for maritime dominance - Breaking Defense
• Navy says shipyards are exempt from DOD’s probationary purge, though 10 workers were fired this week | Stars and Stripes
• The Navy needs a 180-degree pivot: Embracing autonomy and AI for maritime dominance - Breaking Defense
• Breaking News: US Strengthens Naval Forces in Red Sea with Deployment of Second Aircraft Carrier Group to Counter Houthi Threat (armyrecognition.com)
• Are We at the End of American Maritime Hegemony? - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• No, Aircraft Carriers Aren’t Obsolete—Yet - The National Interest
• GAO: Zumwalt, LCS, and Constellation Exemplify U.S. Navy Failures | RealClearDefense
• Navy Set to Deploy Land-Based Anti-Drone Systems at Sea | RealClearDefense
• Report to Congress on U.S. Investigation into Chinese Shipbuilding - USNI News
• Why US shipbuilding is the worst and more money won't save it | Responsible Statecraft
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of the Navy’s Surface Fleet - Defense Opinion
• Navy Needs To Take Stronger Action on China ‘Research Ship’ | RealClearDefense
• Gunboats and Dollar Diplomacy | RealClearDefense
• Break China’s Grip on Shipping with the Multilateral Maritime Alliance | Center for International Maritime Security (cimsec.org)
• All Hail the First of Hopefully Many Maritime Focused Executive Orders (substack.com)
• The state of naval autonomy - Defense One
• How Donald Trump Can Rebuild America’s Naval Strength | RealClearDefense
• United States - Sea Swarms (2025)
• Amphib Maintenance ‘Vexing’ Hindrance to Fleet Readiness (nationaldefensemagazine.org)
• Why the United States, South Korea, and Japan Must Cooperate on Shipbuilding | RAND
• Time to Fix the Navy’s Frigate Problem - Defense Opinion
• Forging a Global Carrier Network: Leveraging Momentum and Building Structure for Repetition - Center for Maritime Strategy
• Navy to brief industry on plans for new robotic ship program | DefenseScoop
• Identifying Pathways for U.S. Shipbuilding Cooperation with Northeast Asian Allies
• Restoring Maritime Power | RealClearDefense
• Distributed Maritime Operations, Logistics, Industry, and American Strategy in Asia - Military Strategy Magazine
• USS George Washington’s quiet departure coincides with Chinese naval activity in Pacific | Stars and Stripes
• America Is Finally Getting Its Maritime Strategy Right - The National Interest
• The Persistence of the Aircraft Carrier and Its Relevance for Tomorrow | Proceedings - July 2025 Vol. 151/7/1,469
• America’s Navy Is Falling Behind. This Plan Could Fix It - The National Interest
• US and NATO Ally Flex Aircraft Carrier Muscles in Pacific - Newsweek
• United States Navy Force Structure: The Challenge of Global Crisis Response | RAND

3c. Military - Air

• U.S. moves Patriot defenses to Middle East with dozens of C-17 flights (axios.com)
• America and Vietnam Keep Getting Closer - 19FortyFive
• Concrete Sky: Air Base Hardening in the Western Pacific | Hudson Institute
• Why the Air Force Might Build 225 B-21 Raider Bombers - 19FortyFive
• Military’s Current Sealift, Airlift Strategy ‘Suboptimal’ for Conflict (nationaldefensemagazine.org)
• B-21 Raider Could Be the Most Important Warplane of the Century - 19FortyFive
• Massive WWII B-29 Bomber Base Fully Reclaimed For Future Pacific Fight (twz.com)
• Long-Range Maritime Air Assault Operation in the Indo-Pacific Theater | Small Wars Journal by Arizona State University
• https://www.twz.com/air/super-hornets-are-now-carrying-stormbreaker-glide-bombs-on-combat-missions
• U.S. Sends Warplanes, Ships to the Middle East in Warning to Iran - WSJ
• U.S. Airpower Is at Risk on the Runway | RealClearDefense
• To Bolster Diplomacy and Deterrence Make Our Enemies Fear the Bomber | Hudson Institute
• FLRAA Tiltrotor Empowers Joint Forces in the Indo-Pacific | RealClearDefense
• Navy Needs Secret F/A-XX Now to Pull Ahead of China | RealClearDefense
• US Bombers Step Up Combat Operations as Demand Grows
• Armada Of USAF Tankers Just Deployed East Over Atlantic Spurring Speculation

3d. Military - Technology

• How America Can Stay Ahead of China in the AI Race | RealClearDefense
• Report Warns U.S. Risks Strategic Drift in Space As China Gains Ground | RealClearDefense
• Getting the Marine Corps Back to the Future in the South China Sea | RealClearDefense
• The Pentagon is getting a counter-drone task force as threats from unmanned aerial systems increase | Sandboxx
• JD Vance Unveils America’s AI Doctrine - The National Interest
• Nuclear EMP attack: How US, Americans can prepare for ‘very real threat,’ expert says (msn.com)
• Space Force lacks ‘warfighting ethos,’ experts say (c4isrnet.com)
• SOCOM's SOF Renaissance | RealClearDefense
• The Hypersonic Missile Advantage | RealClearDefense
• President Trump Warns ‘Monster’ Nukes Could End the World ‘Tomorrow’ | RealClearDefense
• ‘Drone Carriers’ Could Make Aircraft Carriers Obsolete | RealClearDefense
• Defending America: The Next Steps in Homeland Missile Defense | RealClearDefense
• The U.S. Missile Launcher That Is Enraging China (msn.com)
• Breaking News: US Relocates Patriot Air Defense Missiles from South Korea to Middle East Amid Rising Tensions (armyrecognition.com)
• U.S. moves Patriot defenses to Middle East with dozens of C-17 flights (axios.com)
• How America Can Stay Ahead of China in the AI Race | RealClearDefense
• Understanding Doubts Over U.S. Extended Nuclear Deterrence in Asia | RealClearDefense
• How to leverage US nukes overseas - Breaking Defense
• Report warns U.S. risks strategic drift in space as China gains ground - SpaceNews
• United States - AI and Special Operations (2025)
• Could striking first in cyber be new Pentagon policy? - Defense One
• Compass Points - Paparo Praise?
• Pentagon boosts budget for Palantir’s AI software in major expansion of Project Maven - SpaceNews
• Drone Warfare and Securing America’s Military Against Emerging Threats with Senator John Boozman | Hudson Institute
• United States nuclear weapons, 2025 - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

4. Diplomatic

• America and Vietnam Keep Getting Closer - 19FortyFive
• 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)
• The China-Russia relationship and threats to vital US interests (brookings.edu)
• Major focus of Trump’s foreign policy to be on China challenge: Lisa Curtis | News Today News - The Indian Express
• Philippines, U.S. Hold Joint Maritime Exercises In South China Sea (gcaptain.com)
• The State—and Fate—of America's Indo-Pacific Alliances | RAND
• The end of the transatlantic alliance - UnHerd
• Trump, Xi, and the false hope of a grand bargain (brookings.edu)
• Trump’s Foreign Policy Abandons Ideology for the Balance of Power | RealClearDefense
• Strengthening Allied Capability for Strategic Success - Military Database - ProQuest
• A Better Way to Defend America | Foreign Affairs
• Breaking News: US Relocates Patriot Air Defense Missiles from South Korea to Middle East Amid Rising Tensions (armyrecognition.com)
• 9DASHLINE — The future of US alliances in Northeast Asia
• Underestimating China: Why America Needs a New Strategy of Allied Scale to Offset Beijing's Enduring Advantages (foreignaffairs.com)
• To Bolster Diplomacy and Deterrence Make Our Enemies Fear the Bomber | Hudson Institute
• US - ROK Alliance (2019)
• US - Korea Relations (2022)
• United States - Strengthening Allied Capbility for Strategic Success (2024)
• United States - Recalibrating AUKUS (and FiveEyes) in the Second Trump Era (2024)
• United States - Arming the Quad (2021)
• United States and North Korea - The United States and North Korea - New Threats, New Challenges (2024).
• United States - US Policy toward China and Taiwan (2024)
• United States - The Myth of Multipolarity - American Power's Staying (2023)
• United States - US-Taiwan Relations and the Future of the Liberal International Order (2024)
• The US Is Already Losing the New Cold War to China | American Enterprise Institute - AEI
• The U.S. Can’t Handle a War | American Enterprise Institute - AEI
• Why the United States, South Korea, and Japan Must Cooperate on Shipbuilding | RAND
• Understanding the Temporary De-Escalation of the U.S.-China Trade War
• To Combat China, U.S. Wants Its Friends to Do More - WSJ
• U.S. Troops in Korea May Soon Switch Focus From Pyongyang to Beijing | RealClearDefense
• U.S.-China Trade Truce Risks Falling Apart Over Rare-Earth Exports
• A new US-Africa blueprint for Trump amid China’s rise
• Trump Strikes a Deal to Restore Rare Earths Access
• How NATO Can Support the United States in Asia
• 2025 NATO Summit: Time to Include the Asia-Pacific Democracies | RealClearDefense
• Two Chinese Nationals Arrested in US for Espionage
• Why America’s East Asian Allies Skipped the NATO Summit | RealClearDefense
• The Quad and the Critical Minerals Initiative - MP-IDSA
• The West Can’t Survive the Sanctions It Needs to Deter China – The Diplomat
• Futility of U.S.–China Competition in the Middle East | RealClearWorld
• Trump’s ‘Sheriffs’ Can’t Keep the Peace With China | American Enterprise Institute - AEI
• US and NATO Ally Flex Aircraft Carrier Muscles in Pacific - Newsweek
• The Quad, Africa, and Competition for Critical Minerals - MP-IDSA

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

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