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Foreign Affairs | After the end of the Cold War, the United States moved away from using negotiations to promote the national interest. .......
The Marathon Initiative | The United States faces a growing risk of multi-front war against Russia, China and Iran. The optimal response to this danger would be a sequential strategy aimed at inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia in Ukraine on a faster timeline than China is prepared to move against Taiwan.........
Centre for Security, Diplomacy, and Strategy | Dr. Mitchell spoke at the Brussels School of Governance about how great powers use diplomacy throughout history in a talk titled "Skillful Statecraft Across the Ages."....
Wall Street Journal | On trade, defense and energy, Washington has failed to shore up the trans-Atlantic alliance.......
Asahi Shimbun | Wess Mitchell is interviewed by Kayoko Geji of Asahi Shimbun about the war in Ukraine and the future of security in Europe and the Indo-Pacific theaters.......
Foreign Policy | Without a secure Europe, the United States risks becoming a hemispheric potentate on the margins of the world....
Foreign Policy | Ukrainian offensives onto Russian soil, such as the one currently underway in the Kursk region, present an opportunity to end the war more quickly as part of a wider strategy of sequencing the United States’ geopolitical challenges.......
The Marathon Initiative | The People’s Republic of China has embarked on an ambitious diplomatic campaign to increase its influence in strategically-vital regions and burnish its credentials as a great power of global reach.…......
Foreign Policy | Ukraine, the Middle East, and Taiwan are part of an unstable frontier—and require a more principled U.S. strategy......
Foreign Policy | Global war is neither a theoretical contingency nor the fever dream of hawks and militarists.....