President Joe Biden’s foreign policy risks getting into a doom loop that would make the world more dangerous for the United States and its allies, argues Hudson’s Walter Russell Mead in the Wall Street Journal.

As protectionist lawmakers seek to block a Japanese company’s purchase of US Steel, Japan Chair Fellow William Chou argues in the Wall Street Journal that, to counter China, the US needs to work with allies like Japan—not criticize them.

At a Hudson event, Senator Jim Risch (R-ID) made the case for seizing Russian assets to fund Ukraine’s reconstruction. Hudson’s Nate Sibley elaborates on how the US can make Russia pay in a new policy memo.

The Houthis’ cheap, Iranian-supplied munitions are quickly depleting American ships of their expensive interceptor missiles. For CNBC, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology Director Bryan Clark explains how laser weapons could solve the Pentagon’s air defense dilemma.

If the US wants to stop Houthi attacks on global shipping, the administration needs to reestablish deterrence against Iran. Ronald Reagan did so in 1988, as Hudson Adjunct Fellow William Luti recounts in the Wall Street Journal.

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Ursa Major CEO Joe Laurienti discussed how the US defense industry can ramp up production of old munitions like Stinger missiles while also preparing for the future of warfare on Arsenal of Democracy.