Yun Sun
Senior Fellow and Co-Director
Legacy Program: Defense Strategy and Planning
We Don’t Need Airstrikes to Restore Deterrence in the Strait of Hormuz
We Don’t Need Airstrikes to Restore Deterrence in the Strait of Hormuz Dr. Christopher Bolan argues convincingly that one reason U.S. deterrence is failing in the Strait of Hormuz is that U.S. policymakers are not clearly communicating their demands. The Army War College professor offers ample evidence of the ambiguity surrounding the Trump administration’s policy …
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Secret Wars: Insights from the Backstage of Covert Conflict
Featuring: Austin Carson is a professor of political science at the University of Chicago. Sameer Lalwani is a senior fellow and director of the South Asia program at the Stimson Center. Melanie Sisson is a senior fellow and director of the defense strategy and planning program at the Stimson Center.
US-China Competition “Short of War,” 1991-2018
Panelists include: Michael S. Chase, Senior Political Scientist at RAND, an Adjunct Professor in the China Studies and Strategic Studies Departments at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C., and an affiliate faculty member at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Yun Sun, co-Director of the East Asia Program and Director of the …
Competing with Russia “Short of War”: How the US and NATO have Countered Russian Coercion Panel Discussion
Join Stimson’s Defense Strategy and Planning program in welcoming Thomas Wright and Michael Kofman, who will discuss their recent studies on US and NATO efforts to confront Russia short of war. In recent years, the US and its NATO allies have become increasingly alarmed by Russia’s willingness to advance its foreign policy objectives through military …
Hope in an Age of Nuclear Weapons: The Realist Case for Elimination Book Discussion
This event was rescheduled due to inclement weather. It is now taking place on Thursday, May 2. Event Description: Wilson will challenge Cold War concepts that still inform policy, and present new and compelling reasons why we should take the question of elimination seriously. In his first public discussion of his forthcoming book, Hope …
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US Coercive Diplomacy in Iran and Iraq: A Conversation with Ken Pollack
Featuring: Kenneth M. Pollack, Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) Barry Blechman, Co-founder and Distinguished Fellow at The Stimson Center
Amazon in Crystal City: Threat and Opportunity for the Defense Department
Amazon’s recent announcement that it has chosen two locations for its second headquarters has been greeted with a general deflation of enthusiasm mixed with pique. Despite the Cinderella dreams of the many people who wanted the behemoth to choose a city beyond the Acela corridor, it looks like Amazon will use its magic wand to …
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Mattis is poisoning the well on women in combat
Secretary of Defense James Mattis is against women in combat. He made this clear in his 2017 confirmation hearings, in comments given on Tuesday at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI), whose student body is 89 percent male, and in his subsequent doubling-down in the face of criticism on Wednesday. By doing so, he is actively undermining policies he is charged with implementing …
NATO in the Changing World Order: Strategic Lessons from Military Operations
Increasingly, US and European leaders are questioning whether international organizations such as NATO are worth the costs. In this talk, Heidi Hardt, assistant professor of political science at the Univeristy of California, Irvine, argues that answering this question requires a consideration of how well the organizations perform. Hardt will discuss findings from her new book NATO’s Lessons in …
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NATO Isn’t Cheap—and It’s Still Worth the Price
President Trump’s confounding behavior during the recent meeting with North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) members and at this week’s Helsinki summit with Russia has produced no shortage of dismay among those who believe that the defense of the European continent is an important national security interest of the United States. Although Trump’s larger geopolitical agenda …
Concession…or Common Sense? Trading Drills for Dialogue
Much has been made of President Trump’s post-summit announcement that he was cancelling joint war games with South Korea. In light of his recent campaign of “maximum pressure” and last summer’s threats of “fire and fury like the world has never seen,” such a conciliatory move caught many off guard, including the South Koreans and perhaps …
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Gordon Adams Op-Ed on Need for US Military Withdrawal from Syria
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Melanie Sisson Joins the Stimson Center
For Immediate Release April 2, 2018 Contact: Audel Shokohzadeh, [email protected], 202.478.3419 The Stimson Center announced today that Melanie Sisson will join the Stimson Center as a Senior Associate and lead the newly founded Defense Strategy and Planning program. The Defense Strategy and Planning program will focus on providing decisionmakers objective analyses that can guide choices about …
How Postponing a Wargame Helped Create a Diplomatic Opening
Delaying Foal Eagle 2018 made an underappreciated contribution toward the first meeting of U.S. and North Korean heads of state. U.S. and South Korean officials credit the U.S. strategy of maximum pressure and “zero concessions” for the sudden diplomatic movements by North Korea, including the Trump-Kim meeting planned for this spring. Less appreciated is their unusual decision in January to …
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