Wess Mitchell Archives

September 23, 2024

CSDS Brussels: Roundtable

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."....
September 17, 2024

How Biden Let Europe Slip Away

Wall Street Journal | On trade, defense and energy, Washington has failed to shore up the trans-Atlantic alliance.......
September 10, 2024

Wess Mitchell Interviewed in Asahi Shimbun

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.......
September 6, 2024

U.S. Strategy Should Be Europe First, Then Asia

Foreign Policy | Without a secure Europe, the United States risks becoming a hemispheric potentate on the margins of the world....
August 15, 2024

The Geopolitical Opportunity of Ukraine’s Kursk Offensive

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.......
February 20, 2024

China’s “New” Diplomacy: Opportunities for American Statecraft

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.…......
February 12, 2024

5 Rules for Superpowers Facing Multiple Conflicts

Foreign Policy | Ukraine, the Middle East, and Taiwan are part of an unstable frontier—and require a more principled U.S. strategy......
November 16, 2023

America Is a Heartbeat Away From a War It Could Lose

Foreign Policy | Global war is neither a theoretical contingency nor the fever dream of hawks and militarists.....
October 24, 2023

27th Annual Economist Government Roundtable – Keynote Remarks

The Marathon Initiative | There are now major conflicts in two of the world’s three most important regions. We are in the early phases of what could become the world crisis of our time.…......
September 14, 2023

Ukraine, Taiwan, and the Dawn of Great Power Competition

Heritage Foundation | Wess Mitchell is interviewed by the Hudson Institute about the future of U.S. defense strategy.....