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A Declining China Is a Dangerous China

China is in a hurry. It’s in a hurry because the Chinese Communist Party entertains ambitions of breathtaking sweep yet has fewer and fewer...

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The National Interest

James Holmes

Zumwalt-Class Stealth Destroyer: Hypersonic Missile Truck or Giant Failure?

Zumwalt-Class: Will it be a success or failure in the long run? It is neither fast nor cheap nor easy to swap out a warship’s major armament for...

23.04.2024 10

The National Interest

James Holmes

Masters of the Air Reveals the Nature of Middle East Wars

History is in the making whenever nations’ airy navies grapple in the central blue. And you can learn from it. I just finished delayed-action...

17.04.2024 10

The National Interest

James Holmes

The Messy Battlespace That Would Be a U.S. vs. China War

It’s a truism that the Pacific is an amphibian theater. Just look at your map and behold! the oceanic region’s majestic vacantness. That being the...

09.04.2024 10

The National Interest

James Holmes

The U.S. Navy Should Make Every Warship Into an 'Aircraft Carrier'

This month over at the Naval Institute Proceedings, Lieutenant Commander Jeff Zeberlein proffers an intriguing, if oblique, take on the future of the...

02.04.2024 10

The National Interest

James Holmes

The U.S. Navy Can’t Afford a Fleet of “Battleships”?

Battleships are back in the news thanks to USS New Jersey, an Iowa-class dreadnought now retired as a museum ship in Camden, New Jersey. Last week,...

25.03.2024 8

The National Interest

James Holmes

The U.S. Military's New Defense Budget Makes No Sense

Walter Lippmann, call your office. Last week the Biden Pentagon submitted its budget request for fiscal year 2025. If executed as written, the request...

19.03.2024 5

The National Interest

James Holmes

The U.S. Navy's Real China Problem Won't Be Easy to Fix

Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro recently barnstormed Northeast Asian shipyards in hopes of enlisting investment from allied nations to help...

12.03.2024 10

The National Interest

James Holmes

The Aircraft Carrier Faces An Uncertain Future

Whither aircraft carriers? Some years ago a former colleague broke down carriers’ historic missions to discern whether they remain adequate unto...

06.03.2024 6

The National Interest

James Holmes

How Ukraine Can Keep America In the Fight: Win

Today marks the second anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and Western support for the defenders seems to be flagging. That’s because the...

24.02.2024 10

The National Interest

James Holmes

How Many Attack Submarines Does the U.S. Navy Need? 

How many attack submarines does the U.S. Navy need?  The more, the better. But accomplishing the mission is the important thing, and the ability to...

19.02.2024 6

The National Interest

James Holmes

Time to Reinvent the U.S. Navy's Submarine Force to Fight China

The age of undersea exceptionalism is drawing to a close in naval warfare. Get used to it, submariners, and get ready. That’s the glum but bracing...

15.02.2024 10

The National Interest

James Holmes

Does Joe Biden Have a Deterrence Problem?

Would you be deterred by an antagonist you believe to be incompetent, irresolute, or both? That question has become part of daily discourse about U.S....

12.02.2024 20

The National Interest

James Holmes

The U.S. Navy Has Missile Drama

The revolution in naval warfare continues. In fact, the revolution has gone into overdrive in this age of inexpensive, plentiful, lethal drones and...

05.02.2024 30

The National Interest

James Holmes

India's Navy Has Arrived

Go Indian Navy!  True to its tradition of nonalignment, India has declined to join the U.S.-led effort to keep open shipping lanes in the Red Sea,...

29.01.2024 20

The National Interest

James Holmes

The U.S. Navy Is All About Warfighting and Combat Readiness

It’s all “warfighting,” all the time, for the next four years while Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the newly installed chief of naval operations (CNO)...

21.01.2024 7

The National Interest

James Holmes

That Downed Chinese Balloon Wasn't Exactly For Spying. It Was a 'Trial' Balloon

Weather balloon? Spy balloon? Nope, and nope. I guess that the Chinese balloon sighted over Montana and Missouri months back - and shot down off the...

17.01.2024 5

The National Interest

James Holmes

How America Can Beat China in a War

Ground power is central to maritime strategy, in the Western Pacific as elsewhere. General Charles Flynn, commander of U.S. Army Pacific, told the...

17.01.2024 10

The National Interest

James Holmes

Who Would Win a War Between the U.S. and China?

Keys to Victory in a U.S.-China War  - Who would win a U.S.-China war? No one can say for sure. “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about...

17.01.2024 10

The National Interest

James Holmes

U.S.-China War over Taiwan: How Bad Could It Get?

Beware, China. And Taiwan, and Asia, and America. Just after the holidays in 2022, a team from the Washington-based Center for Strategic and...

17.01.2024 5

The National Interest

James Holmes

U.S.-China War: Who Would Throw the First Military 'Punch'?

Chinese and American strategists, past and present, delight in invoking sporting metaphors to explain how they intend to do business. Sports talk...

17.01.2024 10

The National Interest

James Holmes

I Was The Last Person to Fire a Battleship’s Massive Guns. These Warship Have Much To Teach Us

16.01.2024 6

The National Interest

James Holmes

The B-21 Raider Is Far More Than Just a Stealth Bomber

The WarZone had a scoop on the U.S. Air Force B-21 Raider back in September of last year, riffing on Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall’s...

16.01.2024 8

The National Interest

James Holmes

Will the Strikes on the Houthis Make any Difference?

What would Admiral J. C. Wylie say about yesterday’s air and missile strikes against Yemen’s Houthis? In all likelihood, the author of Military...

13.01.2024 7

The National Interest

James Holmes

Mark Twain Would Understand the Venezuela vs. Guyana Crisis

Humorist Mark Twain reputedly wisecracked that “history never repeats itself but it rhymes.” Twain would instantly grasp the recent news out of...

07.01.2024 9

The National Interest

James Holmes

China’s Taiwan Nightmare Has Come True

Imagine that. Constant bombast coupled with daily armed provocations is no way to endear yourself to audiences overseas. Or, as the Wall Street...

01.01.2024 20

The National Interest

James Holmes

China's Taiwan Nightmare Has Come True

Imagine that. Constant bombast coupled with daily armed provocations is no way to endear yourself to audiences overseas. Or, as the Wall Street...

01.01.2024 10

The National Interest

James Holmes

Where Did the Houthis Get Anti-Ship Ballistic Missiles? 

In recent weeks Houthi rebels fighting for control of Yemen have lashed out at mercantile shipping in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and southern Red Sea...

23.12.2023 30

The National Interest

James Holmes

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