America’s Naval Strategy Is at Sea

The U.S. Navy's USS Ronald Reagan (Photo by: ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP via Getty Images)

The U.S. Navy doesn’t have enough ships to meet America’s global commitments, even as it faces growing naval competition from China, Russia, Iran and North Korea, warns Seth Cropsey in The Wall Street Journal. The failure to meet these commitments puts the U.S. at great risk, and a change in fleet design and tactics will be necessary to get ahead of the problem before it’s too late.

We Must Not Fall for Beijing’s Magical Narrative

Chinese President Xi Jinping. (Photo by Wang Ye/Xinhua via Getty)

Beijing is successfully shaping the grand narrative in Australia about China, conditioning Australians to accept policies that may run counter to their national interest, warns John Lee in The Australian. Accepting China’s version of reality diminishes the ability of Australia and its neighbors to resist coercion by Beijing.

Virtual Event | A Conversation with Australian Amb. Arthur Sinodinos

How can the free world work together to confront threats ranging from the fallout from COVID-19 to coercion that undermines Indo-Pacific security and prosperity?  Join Hudson Institute Distinguished Fellow Walter Russell Mead and Australia’s Ambassador to the United States Ambassador Arthur Sinodinos this Friday for a discussion on U.S.-Australia relations and key foreign policy challenges.

Realism Must Drive Nuclear Policy

North Korea's intermediate-range strategic ballistic rocket Hwasong-12 lifting off from the launching pad at an undisclosed location near Pyongyang. (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)

In order to maintain peace, the U.S. must convince adversaries China and Russia that avoiding conflict is in their best interest, writes Rebeccah L. Heinrichs in The Hill. An ideological objection to nuclear weapons themselves and an idealistic policy agenda could result in actions that tempt a nuclear exchange.

NEW Counterbalance Episode feat. Nate Sibley

In the latest episode of Counterbalance, Hudson Media Fellow Marshall Kosloff sits down with Nate Sibley, head of Hudson’s Kleptocracy Initiative and the host of the Making a Killing podcast, to discuss the threat posed by imported corruption from authoritarian regimes.  

BEFORE YOU GO...

ICYMI: The Chief of the Air Staff for the Royal Air Force Air Chief Marshal Sir Mike Wigston joined Bryan Clark, director of Hudson Institute’s Center for Defense Concepts and Technology, to discuss the implications of the U.K. Integrated Review for NATO, the United States, and global security.