Emerging Risks
The Chinese Nuclear Arsenal: More DoD Nuclear Threat Minimization
The Biden Administration came into power intending to reduce U.S. nuclear weapons and, despite Russian aggression against Ukraine, some reductions were announced in the 2022 Nuclear Posture Review. Because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the reductions were largely vetoed by Congress but nothing positive was done to enhance the inadequate U.S. nuclear modernization program while the U.S. nuclear deterrent continued to age. It appears that the Biden Administration did not want to admit that it was going to allow China to build a larger nuclear force than that of the United States.
The Implications of Russia’s New Nuclear Doctrine
President Putin will likely eventually use nuclear weapons unless he is deterred. Putin may blunder into a war with NATO given his commitment to nuclear coercion and nuclear superiority. Or, he may launch nuclear first use intentionally. The temptation to use nuclear weapons may override the risks. Russia’s new nuclear doctrine gives us more insight into Russia’s planning, which is threatening and dangerous.
The U.S. Military Is Crumbling: A $137 Billion Crisis Unfolds
Just last week, flooding at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center made headlines after a pipe burst causing extensive damage and distress for patients amid deferred procedures. However, a failing steam system that severely limits staff’s ability to sterilize surgical equipment and “sharply” reduces the number of surgeries performed highlights the deferred maintenance bills due across every […]
Iran Is Developing Plans for Faster, Cruder Weapon, U.S. Concludes
New intelligence about Iran’s nuclear program has convinced American officials that a secret team of the country’s scientists is exploring a faster, if cruder, approach to developing an atomic weapon if Tehran’s leadership decides to race for a bomb, according to current and former American officials.
Will China go to war with Trump?
Though this scenario is fiction, for now, the chance of a major conflict over Taiwan in the not-so-distant future is real, and growing. Xi Jinping has declared in no uncertain terms that the reunification of Taiwan with mainland China is not only essential but the very “essence” of the leader’s epochal vision for the “great rejuvenation” — making China great again by reestablishing it as the world’s number one superpower.
Has World War III Begun?
But a world war is approaching. The international order is bifurcating into ideological spheres again, with one sphere consisting of the U.S. and countries attempting to preserve gains of freedom and prosperity from the last 35 years, and another sphere consisting of countries that consider those gains to have come at their expense or endanger their domestic control.
