Following the overwhelming response to our 1st quarterly series for 2021 on the next National Security Strategy, The Strategy Bridge is shifted gears. Our 2nd quarter series for 2021 was all about assumptions in policy, strategy, and military strategy. What problematic or powerful assumption(s) should The Strategy Bridge readers contemplate and why?

The submissions were plentiful—many of you had thoughts on this question and the selection was not easy. A hearty thanks to all who submitted for this quarter, and congratulations to those of you whose articles were accepted for publication.

Thanks, as always, for being part of The Strategy Bridge community!

• Assumptionitis in Strategy, by Mie Augier, Sean F.X. Barrett, and William Mullen

• The WEIRD World Wars & Why They May Create Blind Spots for Strategy, by Amanda Cronkhite

• Lessons from Bismarck for Twenty-First Century Competition: Challenging the Historical Analogies that Shape Strategic Assumptions, by Nicholas Wainwright

• Validating America’s Core Values and Vital Interests to Recraft its Grand Strategy and Grand Strategic Assumptions, by Chad Buckel

• Breaking Up is Hard to Do: Applying an Overlooked Analogy to U.S.-China Competition, by Joel Benedetti

• Winning Without War: Chinese Supremacy in Global Supply Chains, by Evan Hanson

• The Case Against the Concept of Great Power Competition, by Matej Kandrik

• Hugging the Old Bear: Updating The American Playbook for the Long Game, by Alexander Grinberg

• Offshore Balancing with Chinese Characteristics, by Andrew Latham

• The White Elephant in the Room: Antarctica in Modern Geopolitics, by Michael Gardiner, Ryan Morrissey and James Hurley

• How the U.S. Can Recapture Escalation Control, by Matthew Sussex and Cathy Moloney

• Remembering the Geography in Geopolitics and Indo-Pacific Discourse, by Benjamin Mainardi

• Cyberspace is an Analogy, Not a Domain: Rethinking Domains and Layers of Warfare for the Information Age, by Michael P. Kreuzer

• The 1999 Kosovo War: Reassessing the Possibilities of Intervention, by Elizabeth Walters

• Interpreting Sun Tzu: The Art of Failure, by John Sullivan

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Header Image: Joint Enabling Capabilities Command, Norfolk Virginia, 2012 (Susan Van Sloten)