Strategic Simplicity
Pranay Vaddi, Austin, Matthew Sharp, Vipin NarangTrying to explain new and old, arcane and obscure international security issues in a conversational format.
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Now for Something Completely Different
Readers of this Substack, who skew nuclear, are probably unaware (and possibly indifferent) that from the early 1990s through the mid-2010s I spent a lot of time on counterinsurgency. From a chance encounter with the book The Army and Vietn...
The Incompleteness Theorem
On May 19th, Elbridge Colby, the Undersecretary of War for Policy, gave an important speech at the National War College. Mr. Colby’s remarks were an eloquent and official elucidation of a line of strategic thinking he has developed over rou...
The High North and Strategic Deterrence
Since the 1950s, the High North (defined roughly as “the European Arctic region stretching from Greenland to the border of Norway and Russia near the Barents Sea”) has been a critical region for strategic deterrence. For the Soviet Union an...
Part 2: Discussing a recent WOTR article, "Restrain and Hedge: A New U.S. Nuclear Strategy for a Two-Peer World."
We take our conversation about ‘role’ and ‘reliance’ into a second podcast, where we share our opinions of Tyler Bowen’s May 15, 2026 article in War on the Rocks: “Restrain and Hedge: A New U.S. Nuclear Strategy for a Two-Peer World.” In hi...
Role, Reliance, and War on the Rocks
We rarely take liberties as co-hosts to talk about arcane and didactic international security subject matter. Or perhaps we do that every episode. At least we usually don’t spend a lot of time engaging in definitional combat. Austin, Matthe...
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former Biden National Security Council (NSC 46). even more formerly: State Department, Carnegie Endowment. now pondering international security issues: nuclear policy, arms control, nonproliferation, export controls, nuclear energy, and more.
I am a senior nuclear fellow at MIT's Center for Nuclear Security Policy and a defense fellow at Fuse Energy. I was previously Joint Staff J5 deputy director for strategic stability.
seeking strategic simplicity after a while in the complexity of government.
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