All signs point to No: http://nationalinterest.org/feature/history-tells-us-north-korea-will-never-give-its-nuclear-26093.

On the virtue of being unpredictable when deploying naval task forces: http://nationalinterest.org/feature/how-mattis-can-help-reshape-the-navy-26055

Over at the Naval Institute Proceedings, holding forth on the inperatives driving China to defend at home to go on the offense abroad: https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2018-06/visualize-chinese-sea-power

What military defeats would the defeated refuse to overturn if they could? Join me and find out at http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/the-5-greatest-military-defeats-all-history-25959.

Over at The National Interest, I’m holding forth about the Brazilian Navy’s operating environment, strategic outlook, and idiosyncrasies:

http://nationalinterest.org/feature/brazils-submarine-show-the-south-atlantic-ocean-25799

Over at The National Interest I’m riffing on the similarities and—mostly—differences between the Syria strikes and a potential U.S.-China war off Taiwan:

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/why-us-china-war-over-taiwan-wont-be-anything-the-syria-25492

It appears the die has been cast, but . . . http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/russia-vs-america-what-would-naval-clash-over-syria-look-25378