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Is America Underestimating China?

Eric and Eliot discuss China's massive advantages of scale in the strategic competition with the United States and the metrics that can be used to measure it.

Eric Edelman

The Presidency

Charting the peaceful transfer of presidential power

The advice of Laurin Henry, longtime Miller Center supporter, has helped shape presidential administrations since JFK.

What Can We Learn From Trump's 'Heroic' White House Portrait?

"During the remainder of the 2024 campaign and now in the White House, he has promoted his image as an anointed leader, spared by the Almighty to make America great again."

Barbara Perry

To Preserve Extended Nuclear Deterrence in Europe an American Should be SACEUR

Recent press reports suggest that Pentagon leaders are considering a dramatic organizational change: relinquishing the traditional U.S. role of providing NATO with its Supreme Allied Commander (SACEUR). This would be deeply unwise and potentially dangerous for the United States, as well as for our European allies.

Eric Edelman

Nuclear Deterrence vs Nuclear Warfighting: Is There a Difference and Does it Matter?

While the United States is focused on modernizing an arsenal that is designed to deter strategic attack, America’s adversaries are quietly fielding and expanding nuclear arsenals that are not only designed to deter a strategic attack on their homelands but also are optimized for nuclear warfighting in military theaters of operation. Conversely, this is an area the United States has neglected since the Cold War ended decades ago.

Admiral Charles A. Richard

Secret Recordings Show President Roosevelt Debating Military Desegregation with Civil Rights Leaders

"We get to hear a largely unscripted FDR. Here, he's more or less winging it with the reporters and, as a result, you can hear him in perhaps a more authentic way," said Selverstone, who also is co-chair of the Presidential Recordings Program at the Miller Center.

Marc Selverstone