Author: Sumantra Maitra

Primer: An America First Drone Strategy

Drone warfare is rapidly changing the theories of offense–defense balance and is leading to what is called an “offense-dominated” world. Recent conflicts support that conclusion. Rapid development of a drone dominance program is needed to maintain American preponderance in the global balance of power as the United States faces an emergent multipolarity.

Primer: A “Reverse Suez” Strategy

Trump and Vance are correct. America needs to rethink its historical Suez strategy.

Towards Greater Engagement and Integration with Greenland and a New American Arctic Century

Those preserving U.S. hegemony have always preferred, in the words attributed to Cardinal Richelieu, to have an “iron hand in a velvet glove.” The north is one theater where that priority needs to be restored.

Out of Shape and Out of Control: Understanding and Reforming a “Woke” NATO

At a time of great power rivalry and emerging multipolarity, it is imperative to cut out that ideological fat that has been so divisive to the internal coherence of the American alliance system.