Why National Security Matters: Just Take a Look Around the World

Commentary Who’d have thought we would ever pine for the days of the Cold War? At a time where Russian aggression in Ukraine has led President Putin to muse publicly about using ‘tactical’ nuclear weapons, who in his right mind would want to go back to the days of MAD (mutually assured destruction), a time where international tensions between the world’s superpowers (and their allies) could very easily have descended into exchanges of bombs magnitudes of order bigger than the ones dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II? When we look at the international security threat level today, those decades of East-West animosity look like a picnic....