While not all readers of this journal read my Executive Summary, they do read the results of my team’s work.

The 2022 U.S. National Defense Strategy (NDS) and National Security Strategy place integrated deterrence as the centerpiece of U.S. strategy. Integrated deterrence—which “entails working seamlessly across warfighting domains, theaters, the spectrum of conflict, all instruments of U.S. national power, and [America’s] network of Alliances and partnerships”—is to be tailored to specific circumstances and applies a coordinated, multifaceted approach to reducing competitors’ perceptions of the net benefits of aggression relative to restraint.

In 1945, General Henry “Hap” Arnold observed that in the future, “science and research will have the same relative importance as pilot training.”

A growing chorus of U.S. defense analysts, lawmakers, and military officials has emphasized that the United States lacks the munitions production capacity to meet the demands of the contemporary strategic environment.

Intercontinental-range ballistic missiles (ICBMs), or missiles that fly over 5,500 kilometers (approximately 3,400 miles), have been a key component of the U.S. nuclear triad since the 1960s.

In December 2020, the United States experienced one of the most sophisticated cyber espionage attacks in its history: the SolarWinds supply chain breach.

An update and integration of our military medical strategy is needed before the next large conflict.

Maritime activity has been a constant feature of the world’s oceans since the development of seafaring capabilities.

Collisions by Michael Kimmage offers a timely contemporary history of the conflict in Ukraine in which he argues that the war is the culmination of three different yet overlapping geopolitical “collisions” between Russia and Ukraine, Russia and Europe, and Russia and the United States.

Kori Schake’s The State and the Soldier is an engaging, compact, and comprehensive examination of U.S. civil-military relations history.

Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Amy Zegart has long been intrigued—and often confounded—by America’s obsession with what she calls “spytainment”: the blending of espionage and entertainment.