The Trump administration’s newly released National Defense Strategy (NDS), unveiled on the 23rd (local time), has sparked ...

As a contributor to that Joint Staff effort, I have been revisiting that experience since the Department of Defense issued ...

Donald Trump has rolled out America’s stark new National Defense Strategy. Europeans need to be prepared to take control of ...

The term “extended deterrence (nuclear umbrella)” was omitted from the Trump administration’s new National Defense Strategy (NDS). It was also absent from the National Security Strategy (NSS), the top ...

The Cold War ended in 1991. The United States’ commitment to prevent its adversaries’ nuclear ambitions and to extend its nuclear arsenal as an umbrella of protection to its partners has remained ...

Between the Ukraine War and Operation Midnight Hammer, nuclear deterrence once again proved itself to be the defining issue ...

The Korean Peninsula illustrates why the stable management of nuclear risk has become more urgent than denuclearization ...

This Issue Brief presents the findings of the artificial intelligence (AI) simulations conducted after The Heritage Foundation’s October 2025 tabletop exercise (TTX) on U.S.–China theater nuclear ...

At its current production rates, China is likely to have a far more menacing submarine force than Russia in short order—though its quality is still uncertain.