"The US has spent the last three decades siloing nuclear capabilities off into their own box, and hence we are behind the ball on thinking of how to deal with an increasingly desperate foe who sees nuclear weapons not as a final instrument, but as part of the broader orchestra," writes Robbin Laird.
Defense Priorities' Daniel L. Davis argues the US should spend all the money necessary to keep the country safe and enable its armed forces to meet its global treaty obligations – but not to become the force of first resort for any nation on earth.
Changes in technology, terrain and society have shifted the balance between offense and defense in ways that favor democracy's defenders in Ukraine and beyond.
A US-backed resistance in Russian-occupied territories could bog Moscow down for years – safeguarding the rest of Europe at a terrible cost to Ukraine.