Policy Writing
Shorter-form analysis and commentary written for policy and practitioner audiences.
Aerospace & Defense
Analysis of military aerospace and unmanned systems — the authorities and command architecture that govern their employment, the procurement pipelines and industrial base behind them, and the doctrine emerging from their use abroad and at home.
Center for Strategic and International StudiesOct 2026What Is Space Superiority?
Joint doctrine treats space superiority as freedom to operate; the Space Force also requires keeping the adversary from doing the same, and CENTCOM's claim over Iran doesn't show U.S. forces could meet that standard against China.
War on the RocksSep 2026Rated Ready is Not Ready: What America's Korea Exercises Actually Measure
The U.S.-South Korea alliance has never published which units rehearse which wartime missions or who grades them, so no outsider can check whether halving the 2026 Ulchi Freedom Shield hurt readiness.
Global Taiwan BriefSep 2026Taiwan Must Shift Course in its Domestic Drone Warfare Production Strategy
Taiwan builds the short-range drones for a beach fight and imports the long-range maritime strike tier, while its air defense funds the exquisite layer and skips counter-swarm.
Modern War Institute at West PointAug 2026The Unmanned Fires Observer: The Army's Drone-Age Doctrine Rewrite Is Skipping a Crucial Part
The Army's drone doctrine overhaul leaves the fire support manuals untouched, and no publication names the soldier who turns drone video into a cleared fire mission.
Center for Strategic and International StudiesJul 2026Playbook or Rental? U.S. Counter-Drone Defense and the 2026 World Cup
How the 2026 World Cup is testing U.S. counter-drone authorities, command architecture, and procurement at continental scale.
Economic Security & Geopolitical Risk
Analysis of how economic leverage — trade controls, energy, supply chains, and infrastructure — shapes strategic competition and geopolitical risk across the Indo-Pacific and Eurasia.
European GuanxiJun 2026Between Brussels and Beijing: Central Asia and the Contest Over Rules, Routes, and Resources
How Brussels and Beijing's competing frameworks for investment, critical minerals, and carbon regulation are reshaping Central Asia.
China Observers in Central and Eastern EuropeMar 2026Beijing's Balkan Steel Trap: CBAM and the Politics of Decarbonization in Serbia
How Chinese industrial overcapacity and EU carbon border policy collide in Southeastern Europe.
Center for Strategic and International StudiesFeb 2026Kazakhstan Chose Russia and China for Its Reactors. Washington Wasn't Even in the Room.
Great-power competition over nuclear energy infrastructure in Central Asia and the strategic consequences for Washington.
Georgetown Institute for the Study of Diplomacy — The Diplomatic Pouch
Policy analysis published through Georgetown's Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, exploring how legal authorities, economic leverage, and resource competition shape U.S. security policy and strategic decision-making.
After IEEPA: Learning Resources and the End of Emergency "Tariff Diplomacy"
Examining the legal and strategic implications of emergency tariff authority and its impact on defense-trade architecture.
Twenty Million Barrels of Leverage: Why Washington's Iran Options All Run Through Hormuz
Mapping the military and economic constraints on U.S. Iran policy through the Strait of Hormuz chokepoint.
Venezuelan Oil Won't Foot the Bill: Why Trump's Reimbursement Pitch Fails, and Why Market Reintegration Matters
Why energy sanctions reimbursement proposals fall short and what market reintegration actually requires.
Takaichi's "Survival-Threatening Situation": Is Taiwan a Legal Tripwire?
How Japan's evolving legal framework for collective self-defense intersects with alliance commitments in the Taiwan Strait.
Trump-Xi in Busan: A Tactical Pause in the Critical Minerals Standoff
Assessing the defense supply-chain implications of the U.S.-China critical minerals impasse.
SCO Energy Turn + Power of Siberia-2: What Washington Should Do Now
Evaluating the strategic implications of deepening Sino-Russian energy integration for U.S. policy in Eurasia.
Toward a Free and Open Indo-Pacific: Areas for Expansion Within the U.S.-India Bilateral Security Relationship
A roadmap to strengthen joint U.S.-India maritime exercises, counterterrorism operations, and defense industrial cooperation.
Institute for the Study of War — China-Taiwan Weekly Updates
Selected analytical contributions to ISW's China-Taiwan Weekly Update, a product distributed to government and military consumers covering PLA activity, CCP coercion campaigns, and Indo-Pacific security developments.
China-Taiwan Weekly Update, December 28, 2023
Chinese state media portrayed the U.S.-proposed "Guardian Shield" multinational Red Sea naval task force as self-serving and ineffective.
China-Taiwan Weekly Update, December 15, 2023
Chinese Coast Guard and Maritime Militia vessels took aggressive actions against Philippine government vessels near the Spratly Islands.
China-Taiwan Weekly Update, September 23, 2023
The PLAAF launched a record 103 aircraft as part of a violation of Taiwan's air defense identification zone on September 17.
China-Taiwan Weekly Update, September 15, 2023
The CCP responded to the US-Canada-Japan Noble Stingray exercise with a naval "show of force."
China-Taiwan Weekly Update, August 31, 2023
The normalization of new flight patterns around Taiwan within the ADIZ would support a CCP coercion campaign to induce unification.
China-Taiwan Weekly Update, August 18, 2023
KMT presidential candidate Hou Yu-ih emphasized nuclear energy policy to burnish his national security credentials.