US National Strategy
U.S. National Strategy analyzes how American grand strategy is evolving across defense, technology, trade, and geopolitics. Coverage includes the National Security Strategy, great power competition, alliance-based economic integration, AI and industrial policy, regional engagement, and how U.S. strategy shapes the global order in the 2020s and beyond.
Rebuilding Bridges: How the U.S. Should Engage Africa's Estranged States
The Sahel: America's Most Difficult Diplomatic Frontier
West Africa: Anchor Economies and the Coup Belt Challenge
West Africa's strategic logic starts with two countries: Nigeria and Ghana. Get those relationships right, and you have a foundation for everything else.
East Africa: Silicon Savannah, Security Hotspots, and U.S. Priorities
Kenya has been a cornerstone U.S. partner for six decades; a democratic anchor in a turbulent neighborhood, a regional financial hub, and home to Silicon Savannah, a tech ecosystem that has produced fintech giants, agritech startups, and a generation of engineers
Why Africa Is America's Next Great Strategic Opportunity
And yet the U.S. has spent years treating Africa primarily as a humanitarian challenge; a region defined by its crises rather than its extraordinary potential. That framing is not just outdated. It is strategically costly. China became Africa's largest trading partner in 2009
