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  • The U.S. Military’s Growing Weakness

    By WSJ Editorial Board – 10 18 2022

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    Principles of Government · October 24, 2022 ·

    A new Heritage Foundation report warns about declining U.S. naval and air power.

    Americans like to think their military is unbeatable if politicians wouldn’t get in the way. The truth is that U.S. hard power isn’t what it used to be. That’s the message of the Heritage Foundation’s 2023 Index of U.S. Military Strength, which is reported here for the first time and describes a worrisome trend.

    Heritage rates the U.S. military as “weak” and “at growing risk of not being able to meet the demands of defending America’s vital national interests.” The weak rating, down from “marginal” a year earlier, is the first in the index’s nine-year history. Read More

    Filed Under: Articles, China, National Defense and Foreign Policy

    America’s ‘Window of Maximum Danger’

    By Kate Bachelder Odell - Oct. 7, 2022

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    Principles of Government · October 16, 2022 ·

    Russia has invaded Ukraine and threatens nuclear war, China is eyeing Taiwan, Iran holds regular military exercises with China and Russia, and North Korea just launched a missile over Japan. If that doesn’t sound ominous enough, Mike Gallagher has worse news: The U.S. is increasingly vulnerable to losing a war, “either by sitting the conflict out or through defeat in combat.”

    Taiwan is a particular preoccupation. What interest do Americans have in protecting this distant island? If the Chinese subdued it, it would heighten their threat to Japan and the Philippines, which the U.S. is bound by treaty to defend. America’s friends would hedge their bets by cozying up to Beijing. More important, by seizing Taiwan’s semiconductor-manufacturing capability, Xi Jinping would “hold the rest of the world economically hostage,” Mr. Gallagher says. “All this stuff that drives people in the Midwest crazy, when Hollywood or Wall Street bows down” to the Chinese Communist Party, “you can 10-X that if Xi takes Taiwan.”
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    Restore Reagan’s Military ‘Margin of Safety’

    By Roger Zakheim - Aug. 28, 2022

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    Principles of Government · September 13, 2022 ·

    While foreign policy ‘realists’ urge detente with China and Russia, only strength ensures peace. The U.S. faces the most daunting security landscape in 45 years. That’s no coincidence. Earlier this year Russia launched the bloodiest armed conflict in Europe since World War II, and this summer China publicly displayed plans to strangle or swallow the… Read More

    Filed Under: Articles, China, National Defense and Foreign Policy, Russia

    A Homeric Age of Statesmanship

    By Robert D. Kaplan - Aug. 26, 2022

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    Principles of Government · September 5, 2022 ·

    Standing in contrast to these misdeeds are the records of three great Republican secretaries of state who shepherded American diplomacy during the middle and late phases of the Cold War: Henry Kissinger, George Shultz and James Baker III. Their successes were inextricable from their understanding of America as a nation-state, a worldview that put the needs of the U.S. above all else. Read More

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    Is Lincoln Speaking to us?

    By John Walters – August 19, 2022

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    Principles of Government · August 29, 2022 ·

    By and large, we do not believe that there are individuals with great ruling talent who “thirst and burn” to shatter the existing order for the sake of dominating others — individuals who have desires that make them a fundamentally different type of human being: animals of prey, a profoundly different human type from the rest of us. …Is Lincoln’s warning grounded in a timeless truth? Is it a truth alive today?
    …The world has faced such a threat several times in the past 100 years but misunderstood it, underestimated it, and let it grow horribly out of control. We need only think of Stalin, Mao, and, of course, Hitler. Can we learn from this terrible history?

    Specifically, are Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping just such individuals? They sit atop oligarchies. However, they now largely control the levers of power and use that power in a brutal and unified manner. Most of all, in word and deed, they seek to shatter the existing order and bring the world around them under their domination….

    But little national-security analysis focuses on deterring an adversary’s most important power — its leader and leadership. Why not focus on the tyrant and the immediate circle around him? Isolate him and use some of the unique information and cyber power of our time to create suspicion, division, and contempt (the great acid that dissolves authority). In short, analyze the tyrant’s sources of power narrowly — money, respect, fear, key subordinates — and systematically strip them away.

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    The Coming War Over Taiwan

    By Hal Brands and Michael Beckley - Aug. 4, 2022

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    Principles of Government · August 29, 2022 ·

    The U.S. is running out of time to prevent a cataclysmic war in the Western Pacific. While the world has been focused on Vladimir Putin’s aggression in Ukraine, Xi Jinping appears to be preparing for an even more consequential onslaught against Taiwan. Mr. Xi’s China is fueled by a dangerous mix of strength and weakness: Faced with profound economic, demographic and strategic problems, it will be tempted to use its burgeoning military power to transform the existing order while it still has the opportunity. Read More

    Filed Under: Articles, China, National Defense and Foreign Policy

    Delayed Repairs Shrink the U.S Navy Submarine Fleet

    By Seth Cropsey - Sept. 14, 2022

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    Principles of Government · September 29, 2022 ·

    The U.S. Navy’s submarine fleet, America’s essential war-fighting instrument in the Indo-Pacific, is about three-fifths the size it should be, chiefly because of maintenance and production delays. This comes amid stepped-up threats to Taiwan by China.

    Contesting such an assault would require a submarine force at maximum strength. Congress and the White House should act swiftly to integrate private shipyards that repair submarines into the Navy’s maintenance plans. Read More

    Filed Under: Articles, China

    Outdated Nuclear Treaties Heighten the Risk of Nuclear War

    By Franklin C. Miller – April 21, 2022

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    Principles of Government · August 21, 2022 ·

    U.S. policy makers have lost sight of the crucial link between arms control and deterrence.

    U.S. nuclear deterrence policy and U.S. nuclear arms-control policy have become dangerously disconnected.

    Longstanding deterrence policy requires that the U.S. have sufficient capacity to target what potential enemy leaders value most. Arms control is supposed to augment deterrence by limiting, and if possible reducing, the threats while allowing the U.S. to deploy a force that deters an attack on America or our allies. The policies were tightly linked throughout the closing decades of the Cold War, providing the U.S. and its allies with a credible deterrent … Read More

    Filed Under: Articles, China, National Defense and Foreign Policy, Russia

    Semiconductor Dependency Imperils American Security

    By Graham Allison and Eric Schmidt – June 20, 2022

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    Principles of Government · June 24, 2022 ·

    TSMC manufactures 92% of the advanced semiconductors necessary for every smartphone, laptop and ballistic missile. U.S. firms such as Nvidia, Qualcomm and Apple outsource almost all their manufacturing to Taiwan. If Taiwan’s chip manufacturing capacity went offline or fell into China’s hands, America’s technology sector would be devastated. Read More

    Filed Under: Articles, China, National Defense and Foreign Policy

    The U.S. Should Show It Can Win a Nuclear War

    By Seth Cropsey - April 27, 2022

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    Principles of Government · May 26, 2022 ·

    Washington might study Cold War-era practices that had a major effect on Soviet policy making. Russia conducted its first test of the Sarmat, an intercontinental ballistic missile that carries a heavy nuclear payload, on April 20. Vladimir Putin and his advisers have issued nuclear warnings throughout the war in Ukraine, threatening the U.S. and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization… Read More

    Filed Under: Articles, China, National Defense and Foreign Policy, Russia

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