The Trump administration’s 2017 National Security Strategy (NSS) asserted that “great power competition” had returned “after being dismissed as a phenomenon of an earlier century.” Notably, the ...

There is broad agreement today that the United States has entered a period of strategic competition with China. Great power rivalry is back, after a supposed post-Cold War hiatus. But how does great ...

A familiar story has been written these past few years: great power competition, once imagined by some to be a thing of the past, has re-emerged, this time between the United States and China. This ...

Will great power competition end up eating U.S. foreign policy? A new Foreign Affairs article by Dr. Daniel Nexon of Georgetown University makes the case that “great power competition” as U.S. grand ...

The Pentagon is looking at how counterterrorism capabilities honed over the past two decades fighting insurgents can contribute to future competition with Russia and China, a Pentagon official said ...

Great power competition is altering the prospects for managing conflicts in the Middle East. As policymakers rethink the United States’ role in the region, they should avoid the kind of strategic ...

The force posture review recently announced by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is meant, at least in part, to determine whether to continue the Trump administration’s withdrawals from Europe, South ...

Democrats and Republicans alike have greeted the prospect of a long-term rivalry with China as a challenge that will bring out the best of the United States. For years, Washington has touted China as ...

During the Trump administration chaos reigned in the China-U.S. relationship; anything including a hot war seemed possible and there was certainly a drift toward a cold war. With the Biden ...

The northern lights glow above a U.S. Army Avenger Air Defense System during Exercise Arctic Edge 2022 at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, in March. Credit: U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Joseph ...

The concept of “great-power competition” (GPC) is now firmly entrenched at the heart of U.S. defense thinking. Indeed, what was an arcane academic term just a few years ago has now achieved the status ...