This article is part of a series that will explore the use and legal issues surrounding military zones employed during peace and war to control the entry, exit, and activities of forces operating in these zones. These works build on the previous Maritime Operational Zones Manual published by the Stockton Center for International Law predecessor’s, … Continue reading East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zones: A Primer
By LtCol Brent Stricker “I thought of the many times that I had hear the military take positions which, if wrong, had the advantage that no one would be around at the end to know.” –Robert F. Kennedy, October 19, 1962.1 Introduction The Cuban Missile Crisis has lessons each generation should study, such as the … Continue reading Defusing the Cuban Missile Crisis: Naval Quarantine as Strategic De-escalation
By LTJG Andrew Bishop and 1stLt Alexander Huang Perhaps it is instilled in the American spirit, or maybe the country has grown accustomed to it, but reliance on the offense-first mentality of the Navy and Marine Corps will cost the United States. From World War II to the mid-2000s, the U.S. Navy waged war on … Continue reading The Best Defense is Alliance
By Colin Grabow Earlier this year, Michael D. Purzycki argued—as others have before him—that the writings of Adam Smith bolster the case for maintaining the Jones Act to address U.S. national security needs. But notions that a law roundly rejected by economists across the ideological spectrum would be embraced by one of history’s great economic thinkers … Continue reading Adam Smith Would Oppose the Jones Act
