hors d'oeuvres of Battle

A Desire for Safety is a Headache for Arms Control A note for folks: I am going to be cross-posting everything on this website with my Substack and vise versa.

Arms control is almost always discussed within the context of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons.

I had thought to write something discussing what we can and cannot evaluate about the technical performance of Iranian missile systems during the 12 Day War, but in the act of writing it, I realized that such a thing could not be feasibly discussed without

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Recently I’ve seen a couple comments on how Russian success in the domain of nuclear coercion is likely emboldening China.

Jonathan Finer, a former Principal Deputy National Security Advisor, dropped a real bombshell back in December when he mentioned during a panel that Pakistan was pursuing an ICBM capability with the United States in mind as a potential target.

Christmas has come early, the DoD has finally dropped this year’s China Military Power Report.

Now that Trump has been reelected and the situation on the frontline seems bleak for Ukraine, the conversation has turned to the possibility that Ukraine could somehow extract itself from its current situation by pulling a nuclear Hail Mary.

Iran’s recent missile strikes on Nevatim Air Force base only achieved limited damage, but it did give us a lot of data to play with to see precisely how accurate their missiles are under real world conditions.

On October 1st, Iran launched another ballistic missile attack on Israel, and unlike last time, this time a large number of Iranian ballistic missile systems appear to have impacted various target areas in Israel.