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What’s in a name? Fighters, bombers, and modern aerial combat

  • July 3, 2025
  • Greg Malandrino and Thomas G. Mahnken
  • DefenseNews

Thomas G. Mahnken and Greg Malandrino discuss a new shift in aerial combat which favors larger, less detectable aircraft using networked information to defeat adversaries with long-range missiles. In this new regime, future air superiority aircraft may resemble bombers more than fighters.

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The Right Path to Regime Change in Iran

  • June 20, 2025
  • Eric Edelman, Reuel Marc Gerecht, and Ray Takeyh
  • Foreign Affairs

Eric Edelman, Reuel Marc Gerecht, and Ray Takeyh layout the conditions for regime change in Iran.

Analysis

America’s Latest Problem: A Three-Way Nuclear Race

  • June 2, 2025
  • Eric Edelman
  • Foreign Policy

Eric Edelman outlines the unprecedented challenge facing the United States: simultaneous deterrence of two nuclear peers. He argues that shoring up the U.S. nuclear command, control, and communications system should be the first order of business in deterring nuclear decapitation from Russia and/or China.

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