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It is extremely unlikely that China will invade Taiwan, much less succeed.

Unprecedented improvements in U.S.-China mil-to-mil ties have not appreciably reduced tensions.

China won the Cowpens/Liaoning encounter in the South China Sea. What lessons should the US draw?

While the possibility cannot be ruled out, there's little reason to believe another nuclear test is imminent.

The US foreign policy community is far less concerned with existing nuclear arsenals than potential future ones.

Despite important differences, the East China Sea dispute in many ways mirrors the Berlin question.

If aircraft carriers aren’t used in battle it’s hard to justify their enormous price tag.

Coercion is much tougher than deterrence but reducing objectives can make it work.

The main threat to maritime Asia today is not miscalculation. It’s Beijing’s carefully calculated policies.

The manner in which Jang Song-Thaek was purged is almost unprecedented, underscoring Kim Jong-Un’s acute insecurity.

Past fears that carriers were vulnerable to new technologies weren’t proven right… nor were they proven wrong.

War and peace are too complex to attribute to generational change alone. Still, preserving history can’t hurt.