After the Winter Collapse: Blue Prints for a New American Spring

Tag: Legitimacy

  • FLEXIBILITY WITHOUT PURPOSE

    FLEXIBILITY WITHOUT PURPOSE

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    Tom Raquer
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    The United States once had a framework for war: Clear objective. Overwhelming force. Public support. Defined end state. It was imperfect—but it was coherent. That coherence is now gone. What has replaced it is not a new doctrine. It is the absence of one.

  • Globalization Suspended Geopolitics

    Globalization Suspended Geopolitics

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    Tom Raquer
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    For several decades, U.S. strategic planning has increasingly focused on the Indo-Pacific as the central theatre of global power competition. This assumption underlies force posture decisions, alliance structures, and the designation of China as the primary pacing threat. Yet if the geopolitical conditions that sustained globalisation weaken, some of these assumptions may prove less certain.…

  • AFTER WINTER: BUILDING THE BLUEPRINT FOR SPRING

    AFTER WINTER: BUILDING THE BLUEPRINT FOR SPRING

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    Tom Raquer
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    Winter is here! The great clock turns, and in the turning, winter’s chill settles deep into the bones of the land. The grand structures, once vibrant with noise and light, now stand in a stark silhouette against a pale sky, their foundations whispering of strain. This is not an anomaly, but a season within a…