Andrew Latham is a professor of International Relations at Macalester College specializing in the politics of international conflict and security. He teaches courses on international security, Chinese foreign policy, war and peace in the Middle East, Regional Security in the Indo-Pacific Region, and the World Wars.
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....