Kyle Balzer

Beijing’s recent display of military prowess is part of a broader effort to sow instability. The U.S. must push back.

Chinese General-Secretary Xi Jinping has wanted desperately to display his growing nuclear power for all the world to see. Last week, the Chinese military delivered. It is vital that America's leaders understand just what this means for the security of the West.

Nuclear experts from three different think tanks argue that it's time to take the idea of mobile launchers for America's ICBMs seriously.

This month, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released findings on the Air Force’s troubled transition from the aging, silo-based Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) to its far more advanced Sentinel replacement. We believe that the GAO report makes it evident that relying entirely on the current plan for silo-based ICBMs could pose grave risks that leave a future president with a far too-small ICBM force when the adversaries’ combined ICBMs have swelled.

Kyle Balzer | RealClearWire As the security environment darkens across Eurasia, the U.S. defense establishment must prepare to meet the gathering storm.

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The outcome of the war in Iran may determine whether our East Asian allies go for the bomb.

By reintroducing US theater nuclear forces first in South Korea, and then more gradually in Japan, Washington can reassure its anxious allies and bolster its own national security interests, argue Kyle Balzer and Robert Peters. By Kyle Balzer and Robert Peters on June 01, 2026 11:17 am Share Options Share a link to this article