Caitlin Talmadge
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MIT professor, Brookings senior fellow, series editor at Cornell Press ⎮ Foreign policy, military operations, civil-military relations, nuclear weapons, authoritarianism ⎮ Views are my own ⎮ Book: The Dictator's Army
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Sam also recently discussed this research with the Cato Institute: www.cato.org/multimedia/p...
Do Madman Tactics Work?
Featuring Samuel Seitz and John Glaser
www.cato.org
November 2, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Sam also recently discussed this research with the Cato Institute: www.cato.org/multimedia/p...
And if you want more, check out our 2020 research article on this topic in the Washington Quarterly: ssp.mit.edu/publications...
November 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
And if you want more, check out our 2020 research article on this topic in the Washington Quarterly: ssp.mit.edu/publications...
The issue isn't ownership of the shipyard, it's industrial base capacity to build incredibly complex nuclear-powered submarines, something this shipyard has never done before.
October 30, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The issue isn't ownership of the shipyard, it's industrial base capacity to build incredibly complex nuclear-powered submarines, something this shipyard has never done before.
Ordering now. Huge congrats! Teaching an entire civil-military relations course this term...
October 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Ordering now. Huge congrats! Teaching an entire civil-military relations course this term...
Agreed and well stated
October 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Agreed and well stated
But again, FWIW, we already test delivery vehicles regularly, so who knows. 🤷♀️ But the reference to Pentagon doing it (not DOE) and the fact that Russia conducted a notable missile test last week lead me to this interpretation.
October 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
But again, FWIW, we already test delivery vehicles regularly, so who knows. 🤷♀️ But the reference to Pentagon doing it (not DOE) and the fact that Russia conducted a notable missile test last week lead me to this interpretation.