Analysis

Can Europe Fight For Taiwan?

  • January 8, 2025
  • Toshi Yoshihara and Luis Simon
  • War On The Rocks

Toshi Yoshihara and Luis Simon consider the factors that would increase the likelihood of Europe engaging in or contributing to a war over Taiwan.

Analysis

Hostages, Assassinations, and the Future of National Defense

  • August 8, 2024
  • Eric Edelman and Eliot A. Cohen
  • Shield of the Republic

Eric and Eliot discuss the multinational hostage return deal with Russia, the Israeli strikes in Beirut and Tehran, and the recent release of the National Defense Strategy Commission report.

Analysis

Podcast: Paul Nitze: National Security’s Forgotton Man

  • August 1, 2024
  • Eric Edelman and Eliot A. Cohen
  • Shield of the Republic

Eric and Eliot host James Graham Wilson, an historian in the Department of State's Historian's Office, to discuss his new book, America's Cold Warrior: Paul Nitze and National Security From Roosevelt to Reagan

Analysis

US faces growing threats, and we’re woefully unprepared. Here’s how to fix that.

  • August 1, 2024
  • Jane Harman and Eric Edelman
  • The Hill

The national security threats against the U.S. are as significant as and more complex than they were at the height of the Cold War or even World War II. We are not prepared to meet these threats today and could, in very short order, find ourselves in a war across multiple theaters with peer and near-peer adversaries that we could lose.   

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