Competitors can run us ragged all over the map to wear us down –

https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2019/september/competitors-get-say-readiness-too

Thinking the unthinkable about sea power –

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/are-navies-dying-78686

The nature of strategic competition and war never changes, but their character changes all the time –

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/world-war-ii-teaches-us-how-world-war-iii-could-happen-and-would-be-hell-77306

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/yes-china-can-pummel-us-bases-asia-missiles-76226

Distribute lethality within the U.S. Navy fleet — and beyond –

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/how-adaptable-deck-launchers-could-turn-almost-any-ship-missile-firing-warship-74171

Red Star Over the Pacific: A Conversation with James Holmes on China’s Maritime Rise

“Strategic triage” is a painful but sometimes necessary thing when you’re overcommitted–

https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/456611-trump-is-triaging-afghanistan

Always ask how the Chinese Communist Party defines its terms –

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/don%E2%80%99t-believe-china%E2%80%99s-commitment-peace-and-stability-70996

It’s doubtful he would have been the same sensation he was during his 1901-1909 tenure in the White House –

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/alternative-history-if-theodore-roosevelt-had-lived-69566

The “small stick,” non-military implements of sea power, remains Beijing’s implement of choice for battering outmuscled Southeast Asian opponents –

https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/454402-china-swings-a-small-stick-in-the-south-china-sea