And Russia is the first mover in the competition.

https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/501117-great-power-competition-is-racing-to-the-arctic

The U.S. Army’s frontier wars have much to say –

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/why-us-army-1800s-would-understand-chinas-south-china-sea-strategy-159251

What now?

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/has-chinas-navy-caught-and-surpassed-japan-157216

Uh, no.

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/us-grand-strategy-dead-thanks-donald-trump-155301

Quite a lot, actually –

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/what-ve-day-can-teach-us-about-confronting-coronavirus-152236

It’s a product of its history and primal forces that drive us all –

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/why-warlike-one-upmanship-works-russias-benefit-149991

The pandemic hasn’t left allied air power in that bad a state in the Persian Gulf region –

https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/493691-iran-views-the-pandemic-as-prime-time-for-antics-at-sea-at-its-peril

 

There’s no going back to the U.S.-China status quo.

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/how-donald-trump-should-make-china-pay-coronavirus-146027

. . . or see it fall flat.

https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2020/april/naval-integration-strategy-needs-be-written-plain-english

Japan should be on guard.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/china-getting-ready-east-china-sea-showdown-143437