Breaking the New Axis: A U.S. Grand Strategy for Eurasia

About the Lecture

Breaking the New Axis: A U.S. Grand Strategy for Eurasia counters the arguments of today's isolationists, of those who seek security solely in multinational organizations, and of those who would focus on China's threat to the virtual exclusion of the rest of the world. Instead, Cropsey and Harem argue that America's great security challenge lies in the entire Eurasian landmass where the individual and collective threats posed by revisionist Axis, i.e. Russia, Iran, China, and North Korea, challenge US security, economics, commerce, presence, and ability to preserve a modicum of order friendly to democracy, untrammeled commerce, and human rights.

Blending history, strategy, and policy, their analysis presents a comprehensive U.S. approach to countering the coordinated threat posed by China, Russia, and Iran. It outlines how America can exploit their shared weaknesses and secure strategic dominance across Eurasia through military preparedness, alliance-building, and coherent grand strategy.

About the Speaker

Seth Cropsey began his career as assistant to the Secretary of Defense and was later commissioned as a naval officer. He served as deputy Undersecretary of the Navy in the Reagan administration and acting assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict in the George H. W. Bush administration. Confirmed by the U.S. Senate, he became director of the U.S. International Broadcasting Bureau in the George W. Bush administration. Following 15 years as a senior fellow at Hudson Institute, Mr. Cropsey founded the Yorktown Institute in 2022 and is the Institute’s president.

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