The following speech was delivered by the Hon. Dr. Kevin Rudd to the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, on February 18, 2025. It is reproduced here in full. The Naval War College was ...

Nuclear weapons are not going to suddenly disappear. But they might create a more dangerous world in which countries are neither safely deterred nor meaningfully disarmed.

From Soleimani to Maduro: Trump's New Doctrine of Precision Deterrence On January 3rd, 2020, President Donald Trump eliminated Iran's Qassam Soleimani. On January 3rd, 2026, Trump seized Venezuela's ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un oversaw the test firing of a new large-caliber multiple rocket launcher (North Korea’s term for a multiple rocket launcher), according to a report by the North’s state ...

Public diplomacy operates by engaging foreign publics rather than official elites alone, relying on non-military tools such as media, symbolism, and mass mobilization. In this sense, it constitutes an ...

Much has been written about the National Guard’s dual-use nature—ready to respond to state and federal missions alike—but less well understood is how these missions intersect. Defense leaders and ...

January’s unveiling of DeepSeek R1, China's most advanced AI model to date, signals a dangerous inflection point in the global AI race. As President Donald Trump warned in his recent address on ...

Next Army is a collaborative series by CSIS Futures Lab and the Modern War Institute launched in honor of the U.S. Army’s 250th birthday and the Army Transformation Initiative (ATI). The commentaries ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV insisted Thursday that peace was not only possible but necessary, as he blasted the “irrationality” of nuclear deterrence and the weaponization of faith in modern ...

President Bush's new concept of deterrence in the post-Cold War world, which embraces the U.S. deploying offensive and defensive forces, stands in sharp contrast to deterrence strategy outlined in a ...