Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology

Passers-by walk past tank barriers in front of an entrance to the metro in the Ukrainian capital in the morning. Feb. 24, 2023, marks the first anniversary of Russia's war of aggression on Ukraine.

Lessons from Ukraine

Constanze Stelzenmüller, Fiona Hill, Steven Pifer, James Goldgeier, Tara Varma, Aslı Aydıntaşbaş, Patricia M. Kim, Suzanne Maloney, Tanvi Madan, Bruce Jones, Caitlin Talmadge, Melanie W. Sisson, Michael E. O’Hanlon, David Wessel, Samantha Gross, Sophie Roehse, and Kemal Kirişci

Friday, February 24, 2023

Republic of Singapore Navy guided-missile frigate RSS Tenacious arrives in preparation for Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) military exercises at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, U.S. June 25, 2018. Picture taken June 25, 2018. U.S. Navy/Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Jason Abrams/Handout via REUTERS. ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY

Temperatures rising: The struggle for bases and access in the Pacific Islands

February 2023

A U.S. Marine takes photographs as a South Korean army's K-55 self-propelled artillery vehicle gets out of a barge during the Combined Joint Logistics Over The Shore (CJLOTS) exercise, at a seashore in Taean, South Korea, July 6, 2015. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji

Overseas basing logistics at a crossroads in the Middle East, sub-Sahara Africa, and the western Indian Ocean

February 2023

Dutch Marines stand in front of a jet, during the visit of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at a base, as part of a military exercise called "Cold Response 2022", gathering around 30,000 troops from NATO member countries plus Finland and Sweden, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Bardufoss in the Arctic Circle, Norway, March 25, 2022. REUTERS/Yves Herman

Great power competition and overseas basing in the Arctic

Jeremy Greenwood

February 2023

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un guides on the spot the underwater test-fire of strategic submarine ballistic missile in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang on April 24, 2016. KCNA/via REUTERS. ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. EDITORIAL USE ONLY. REUTERS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THIS IMAGE. SOUTH KOREA OUT. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Missile technology: Accelerating challenges

December 2022

In this photo illustration, the app icons of Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp and Facebook are displayed on a smartphone screen with the background of the flag of Russia. (Photo by Daniel Felipe Kutepov / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

How Russia spreads propaganda about Ukraine in Latin America

Jessica Brandt and Valerie Wirtschafter

December 2022

Models of military equipment and a giant screen displaying Chinese President Xi Jinping are seen at an exhibition at the Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution in Beijing, China October 8, 2022. REUTERS/Florence Lo

China and the challenge to global order

Bruce Jones and Andrew Yeo

November 2022

Armed followers of Yemen's Shi'ite Houthi group sit on a truck patrolling the vicinity of a ceremony attended by fellow Shi'ites in Dhahian of the northwestern Yemeni province of Saada February 3, 2012. A deadly assault by Shi'ite Houthi rebels on a Salafi Islamic school planted in their mountain heartland could ignite wider sectarian conflict in Yemen, where instability has already helped al Qaeda militants to take root. Picture taken February 3, 2012. To match Analysis YEMEN-STRIFE/ REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah (YEMEN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)

The lords of war in the changing geopolitical system

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Thursday, November 24, 2022

silicon wafer in die attach machine in semiconductor manufacturing

A semiconductor strategy for the United States

Christopher A. Thomas

November 2022

U.S. President Joe Biden descends from Air Force One at Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh, New York, U.S., October 6, 2022. REUTERS/Tom Brenner REFILE- CORRECTING TOWN

Two cheers for Biden’s national security record

Michael E. O’Hanlon

Thursday, October 6, 2022