Geopolitics
Soft Values, Hard Results
Jyotirmai Singh
April 17, 2024
Like any bright-eyed twenty-something infected by the ambition of Silicon Valley, I’ve spent my fair share of time wondering what it takes to be successful. Of course there’s no universal definition of success, but all forms of success require you to bend reality in some way to conform to your worldview. I’m now convinced that beyond just shaping our dreams and aspirations, our beliefs and values are also vital in achieving them. Soft values lead to hard results.
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Technologies Impact on Warfare
Nicholas Migli
April 10, 2024
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan must not cloud the vision of US policymakers on what the future of warfare holds. It will be a mix of the new and old and to succeed, we must come to understand this: Without the infantryman, the drone is useless; but with the drone, the infantryman becomes unassailable.
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A Lens Through Which to View Geopolitics: The Democracy of it All
Nicholas Migli
March 20, 2024
After forty years of the Cold War and thirty years of American unchallenged dominance, many Westerners have, and naturally so, begun to view the world in very simplified terms. We tend to view states under authoritarian rule as being monolithic, serving only the interests of a single leader and reducing their decision-making processes to the wishes of a single person.
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1918 Moment
Peter Banks
February 29, 2024
What we are witnessing is the death of a Civilization. Whatever will emerge from this war will have as little to do with the past as Modern China does with Taoism. Ukraine and Russia are like wrestlers caught in a moment of absolute tension. To the outside both appear to be unmovable and unmoving but internally muscles and sinews pop and stretch. When one fighter falters the fight will end before we even know what happened. There will not be time to rush to the aid of Ukraine if they break first
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The Indo-American Century
Jyotirmai Singh
February 21, 2024
One of the defining relationships of the 21st century will be that between India and the United States. Having overcome the “hesitations of history”, the world’s oldest and largest democracies have finally embraced each other in pursuing stronger ties across defense, trade, science, and many other spheres.
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Sleepwalking into Catastrophe
Nicholas Migli
February 14, 2024
Over the past several years, American intellectuals and politicians have been wielding a new term to describe the relationship China has with the United States and the Western world: the Thucydides’ trap. This term, now widely accepted as fact in the US, describes the rise of China and its
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