"People understand the conversation in Washington is often very stuck in a very divided context," Leslie Vinjamuri says. "They're trying to understand a broader perspective, and we bring that."
"Even if Operation Midnight Hammer proves to be a failure, it will be a more modest and less costly failure than Operation Iraqi Freedom," Daniel Drezner writes.
"So long as ocean traffic remains vital to the global economy, the command of the seas, or at least the ability to project interests on and across them, will remain a key pursuit of major powers," Paul Poast writes.
