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The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz steams ahead of the guided-missile cruiser USS Princeton during Malabar 2020 exercises in the north Arabian Sea, November 17, 2020. (US Navy)

Is the US Military Actually Ready for a War?

Seth Cropsey

President, Yorktown Institute

Harry Halem

Research Assistant

Seth Cropsey & Harry Halem

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U.S. President Joe Biden meets with Chinese Leader Xi Jinping during a virtual summit from the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, November 15, 2021. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

How Adversaries Size Up Biden’s Foreign Policy

Walter Russell Mead

Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship

Walter Russell Mead

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Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during the United Russia Party Congress, on August 24, 2021 in Moscow, Russia. (Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images)

For Putin, OPEC and Trump, 2021 Was a Good Year

Walter Russell Mead

Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship

Walter Russell Mead

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The warship formations of China and Russia sail through the Tsugaru Strait during the naval exercise Joint Sea-2021 on October 18, 2021 in the Western part of the Pacific Ocean. (Photo by Sun Zifa/China News Service via Getty Images)

Opening of Demise (The Beginning of the End)