After the 1956 “secret speech,” Mao challenged Khrushchev for leadership of the Communist world. Relations worsened by 1958 with the Great Leap Forward and the Taiwan Strait Crisis. The fellow travelers split, and, they fought a border conflict in the next decade.

After the 1956 “secret speech,” Mao challenged Khrushchev for leadership of the Communist world. Relations worsened by 1958 with the Great Leap Forward and the Taiwan Strait Crisis. The fellow travelers split, and in the next decade they fought a border conflict.

Deep Learning From Operation Sindoor: Five Takeaways From a Four-Day War Tensions between India and Pakistan — two countries that President Donald Trump claimed had been fighting for 1,500 years — escalated rapidly over a few

By striking Pakistan, New Delhi asserts that it has called “Pakistan’s nuclear bluff,”... While India generally signals careful escalation management, it may dangle the prospect of counterforce strikes against Pakistan’s nuclear assets and command and control.

Deep Learning From Operation Sindoor: Five Takeaways From a Four-Day War Tensions between India and Pakistan — two countries that President Donald Trump claimed had been fighting for 1,500 years — escalated rapidly over a few

After Operation Sindoor, Indian strategists are rethinking how war can be fought below the nuclear threshold.

Deep Learning From Operation Sindoor: Five Takeaways From a Four-Day War Tensions between India and Pakistan — two countries that President Donald Trump claimed had been fighting for 1,500 years — escalated rapidly over a few

After Operation Sindoor, Indian strategists are rethinking how war can be fought below the nuclear threshold.

Deep Learning From Operation Sindoor: Five Takeaways From a Four-Day War Tensions between India and Pakistan — two countries that President Donald Trump claimed had been fighting for 1,500 years — escalated rapidly over a few

After Operation Sindoor, Indian strategists are rethinking how war can be fought below the nuclear threshold.

Morgenthau aims to restrain our darkest impulses. He understands that politics involves some act of evil. Consequently, Morgenthau draws on Weber's "ethics of responsibility" to counsel statesmen to pursue the "least evil." Accurate discernment is prudent statesmanship. 4/

For Morgenthau, this lust for power is also the root of tragedy: it drives statesmen to overreach and find their ruin. He illustrates this point with the historical examples of Alexander and Hitler and the symbolic examples of Icarus, Don Juan, and Faust. 3/

Morgenthau called Scientific Man Versus Power Politics "the book I most favor." In it, he describes human nature as motivated by the "animus dominandi" (desire for power). Morgenthau says that this impulse is the "root of conflict and concomitant evil." 2/

Deep Learning From Operation Sindoor: Five Takeaways From a Four-Day War Tensions between India and Pakistan — two countries that President Donald Trump claimed had been fighting for 1,500 years — escalated rapidly over a few

What India’s 2025 clash with Pakistan revealed about escalation, capability gaps, and future strategy.

Deep Learning From Operation Sindoor: Five Takeaways From a Four-Day War Tensions between India and Pakistan — two countries that President Donald Trump claimed had been fighting for 1,500 years — escalated rapidly over a few

After Operation Sindoor, Indian strategists are rethinking how war can be fought below the nuclear threshold.

Deep Learning From Operation Sindoor: Five Takeaways From a Four-Day War Tensions between India and Pakistan — two countries that President Donald Trump claimed had been fighting for 1,500 years — escalated rapidly over a few

What India’s 2025 clash with Pakistan revealed about escalation, capability gaps, and future strategy.

Deep Learning From Operation Sindoor: Five Takeaways From a Four-Day War Tensions between India and Pakistan — two countries that President Donald Trump claimed had been fighting for 1,500 years — escalated rapidly over a few

Between May 7–10, India and Pakistan fought an 88-hour war known as Operation Sindoor. What strategic and operational lessons did Indian planners learn from these four days in May?

My latest in @warontherocks.bsky.social with Sameer Lalwani and Shailender Arya.

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Friends with Limits: The Future of Russo-Indian Defense Ties - War on the Rocks Earlier this year, a Russian Su-57 fighter jet roared across Indian skies, capturing attention at the Aero India exhibition. The Kremlin’s aspirations for

The Russo-Indian defense relationship is full of contradictions. Washington’s task is to understand it well enough to see what comes next. warontherocks.com/20...

Friends with Limits: The Future of Russo-Indian Defense Ties - War on the Rocks Earlier this year, a Russian Su-57 fighter jet roared across Indian skies, capturing attention at the Aero India exhibition. The Kremlin’s aspirations for

"The Russo-Indian defense relationship is full of contradictions. Washington’s task is to understand it well enough to see what comes next."
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Friends with Limits: The Future of Russo-Indian Defense Ties - War on the Rocks Earlier this year, a Russian Su-57 fighter jet roared across Indian skies, capturing attention at the Aero India exhibition. The Kremlin’s aspirations for

"U.S. policymakers need to appreciate both the floor and the ceiling of Russo-Indian relations." Fascinating and detailed @warontherocks.bsky.social piece by @dbrostoff.bsky.social and Dan Markey warontherocks.com/2025/04/frie...

Friends with Limits: The Future of Russo-Indian Defense Ties - War on the Rocks Earlier this year, a Russian Su-57 fighter jet roared across Indian skies, capturing attention at the Aero India exhibition. The Kremlin’s aspirations for

The Russo-Indian defense relationship is full of contradictions. Washington’s task is to understand it well enough to see what comes next. warontherocks.com/20...

Friends with Limits: The Future of Russo-Indian Defense Ties - War on the Rocks Earlier this year, a Russian Su-57 fighter jet roared across Indian skies, capturing attention at the Aero India exhibition. The Kremlin’s aspirations for

What are the floors and ceilings of the Russo-Indian defense partnership? Daniel Markey and I assess Russia and India’s ties in @warontherocks.bsky.social

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The ‘Reverse Kissinger’ Strategy Is Based on Bad History The idea relies on a historical fallacy: Kissinger didn’t create the Sino-Soviet split. He merely took advantage of it.

The idea of the Trump administration pulling a "reverse Kissinger" relies on a historical fallacy: Kissinger didn’t create the Sino-Soviet split. He merely took advantage of it.

The ‘Reverse Kissinger’ Strategy Is Based on Bad History The idea relies on a historical fallacy: Kissinger didn’t create the Sino-Soviet split. He merely took advantage of it.

The “reverse Kissinger” is a bad case of applied history, which fails to grapple with different geopolitical contexts.

The ‘Reverse Kissinger’ Strategy Is Based on Bad History The idea relies on a historical fallacy: Kissinger didn’t create the Sino-Soviet split. He merely took advantage of it.

Great piece by my former student David Brostoff on the delusion of the so-called reverse Kissinger strategy thediplomat.com/2025/03/the-...