Michael T. Klare

Defense Correspondent

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Michael T. Klare, The Nation’s defense correspondent, is professor emeritus of peace and world-security studies at Hampshire College and senior visiting fellow at the Arms Control Association in Washington, D.C. His newest book, All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon’s Perspective on Climate Change, will be published this fall.

Nuclear Arms and ProliferationYesterday 12:43 pm

Placing “Guardrails” on the US-China Nuclear Competition

A failure to challenge inflated claims about China’s nuclear arsenal will have serious and painful consequences.

Michael T. Klare
Foreign PolicyOctober 27, 2021

Dangerous Brinkmanship Over Taiwan

How to avoid US-Chinese military conflict in the Western Pacific.

Michael T. Klare
Climate ChangeOctober 19, 2021

Geopolitics Will Cost Us Our Planet

For all of our posturing, we’re doomed if the world’s biggest players aren’t in agreement.

Michael T. Klare
Climate ChangeAugust 26, 2021

The Real Existential Threat Is Our Overheating Planet

By 2049, China will be too busy dealing with climate disasters to launch a war with the United States.

Michael T. Klare
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Foreign PolicyAugust 24, 2021

Great Power Politics After Afghanistan

Resetting the global chessboard.

Michael T. Klare
HistoryJuly 19, 2021

Where Do Wars Come From?

Two new books, Margaret MacMillan’s War and Martin Sherwin’s Gambling with Armageddon, offer close studies of how we end up, or almost end up, marching into war.

Michael T. Klare
Foreign PolicyJuly 15, 2021

Is a War With China Inevitable?

The statements coming out of the Department of Defense and the upper ranks of Congress these days make it seem that way.

Michael T. Klare
War and PeaceJune 25, 2021

Dividing the World Into Opposing Camps Is the Road to Armageddon

Washington aims to recast NATO in the image of the US military, with its focus on “great power competition” and a renewed arms race with Russia and China.

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EnergyMay 24, 2021

The Future of Renewable Energy Depends on China

Hawkish foreign policy is a losing game when China provides 70 percent of the world’s rare-earth supplies.

Michael T. Klare
PoliticsMay 19, 2021

The Pentagon Inflates the Chinese Nuclear Threat in a Push for New Intercontinental Missiles

Every US military service is seeking more money than before, and each one is touting the importance of their weapons in overcoming the Chinese military threat.

Michael T. Klare

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Michael T. Klare

Defense Correspondent

Nuclear Arms and ProliferationYesterday 12:43 pm

A failure to challenge inflated claims about China’s nuclear arsenal will have serious and painful consequences.

Foreign PolicyOctober 27, 2021

How to avoid US-Chinese military conflict in the Western Pacific.

Climate ChangeOctober 19, 2021

For all of our posturing, we’re doomed if the world’s biggest players aren’t in agreement.

Climate ChangeAugust 26, 2021

By 2049, China will be too busy dealing with climate disasters to launch a war with the United States.

The stakes are higher now than ever. Get The Nation in your inbox.

Foreign PolicyAugust 24, 2021

Resetting the global chessboard.

HistoryJuly 19, 2021

Two new books, Margaret MacMillan’s War and Martin Sherwin’s Gambling with Armageddon, offer close studies of how we end up, or almost end up, marching into war.

Foreign PolicyJuly 15, 2021

The statements coming out of the Department of Defense and the upper ranks of Congress these days make it seem that way.

War and PeaceJune 25, 2021

Washington aims to recast NATO in the image of the US military, with its focus on “great power competition” and a renewed arms race with Russia and China.

EnergyMay 24, 2021

Hawkish foreign policy is a losing game when China provides 70 percent of the world’s rare-earth supplies.

PoliticsMay 19, 2021

Every US military service is seeking more money than before, and each one is touting the importance of their weapons in overcoming the Chinese military threat.