Andrew Latham is a Senior Washington Fellow at the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy and a professor of international relations and political theory at Macalester College in Saint Paul, MN. You can follow him on X: @aalatham.
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – U.S. and Chinese aircraft carriers are evolving for fundamentally different roles, not as mirror images. -China’s carriers are “mobile...
Key Points and Summary – Beijing faces overlapping clocks on Taiwan: political pressure to show progress as growth and demography worsen; uneven military readiness...
Key Points and Summary – Russia is reorganizing for industrial war: fewer prestige projects, more factories, rotations, and repair cycles. -The future force will...
Key Points and Summary – Thucydides cast armistices as brief intermissions before tragedy resumes. Could Korea’s 1953 truce be the longest intermission in history—or...
Key Points and Summary – The Ukraine war is settling into a costly deadlock of drones, artillery, and infrastructure strikes—fertile ground for a Korea-style...
Key Points and Summary – NATO faces a Russian war built on speed, software, and mass: swarming drones, relentless missiles, and fast-evolving electronic warfare....
Article Summary – China’s Aircraft Carriers: Useful—But Fewer, Humbler, Closer to Home -China’s aircraft carriers make sense only when tailored to its near-seas problem...