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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Texas National Security Review.daily12026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 8, iss. 2 (2025) through current issueLatest Articles: Texas National Security ReviewTWOProject MUSE®Texas National Security Review2576-11532576-1021Latest articles in Texas National Security Review. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Strategic Stability
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989586
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11th Marine Expeditionary Unit by Sgt. Trent A. Henry.86How will advances in artificial intelligence (AI) impact strategic stability? Over the last five years, a growing number of studies and reports have assessed the ways that advances in AI could influence global politics, including the potential risks to strategic stability from integration of AI into the nuclear domain, particularly in large language models (LLMs) and frontier AI.1 These risks come from multiple potential sources, including miscalculation by machines, sidestepping of human firebreaks to escalation, AI-induced accidents, the speed of AI-enabled warfare, and other mechanisms.2 These arguments generally make strong negative assumptions about the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/900/image/coversmallArtificial Intelligence and the Future of Strategic Stability2026-05-01text/htmlen-USArtificial Intelligence and the Future of Strategic Stability2026-05-012026TWOProject MUSE®1098012026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-01Technological Surprise and Normalization Through Use: The Tactical and Discursive Effects of New Precision-Strike Weapons in the Russo-Ukrainian War
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989587
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kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons.141Military strategists, policymakers, and scholars of security studies exhibit deep concern about the development of new weapons technologies and their security implications.1 Following patterns of popular thinking about technology more broadly, analysts appear preoccupied with what Marita Sturken and Douglas Thomas term “visions of technology as life-transforming, in both transcendent and threatening ways.”2 Forecasts of the security implications of technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), quantum sensors, and hypersonic missiles frequently warn of imminent disruptions to the character of war. These narratives of technological revolution can be utopian, when
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/900/image/coversmallTechnological Surprise and Normalization Through Use: The Tactical and Discursive Effects of New Precision-Strike Weapons in the Russo-Ukrainian War2026-05-01text/htmlen-USTechnological Surprise and Normalization Through Use: The Tactical and Discursive Effects of New Precision-Strike Weapons in the Russo-Ukrainian War2026-05-012026TWOProject MUSE®1280572026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-01The (Elusive) Search for Strategic Stability
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989588
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6th Air Refueling Wing by Airman 1st Class Helen Ly.3The search for stability has been an element of the contemporary international environment since the dawn of the nuclear age. Today, as this special issue of the Texas National Security Review highlights, both geopolitical and technological change call that stability into question.The concept of strategic stability emerged during an era of bipolar competition between the Soviet Union and the United States, when the fundamental risk of nuclear escalation was thought to lock both superpowers into a certain level of mutual deterrence that removed incentives for destabilizing escalation. Francis Gavin’s essay on the thought of Thomas Schelling, “Strategic Stability
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/900/image/coversmallThe (Elusive) Search for Strategic Stability2026-05-01text/htmlen-USThe (Elusive) Search for Strategic Stability2026-05-012026TWOProject MUSE®127112026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-01Strategic Stability and Its Limits: Reflections on Schelling
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989589
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Alvaro conde, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons.54It is widely believed that emerging technologies possess the potential to transform military competition and the international system in an uncertain, potentially destabilizing fashion. Are there ways to capture the benefits of these new technologies without unleashing catastrophic dangers?This is not the first time revolutionary capabilities have upended world politics. Nuclear and thermonuclear weapons, married to increasingly sophisticated ways of delivering their destruction across the globe in hours, if not minutes, upended global affairs in the post–World War II era, generating what Robert Jervis and others termed “the nuclear revolution.”1What insights and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/900/image/coversmallStrategic Stability and Its Limits: Reflections on Schelling2026-05-01text/htmlen-USStrategic Stability and Its Limits: Reflections on Schelling2026-05-012026TWOProject MUSE®839692026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-01The Influence of Psychological Factors in the Search for Strategic Stability
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989590
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“Atomic Landscape” Nagasaki, Japan, 1946, by Robert Graham.46Many of the leaders of new nuclear powers, or states seeking such capacity, sit atop regimes that are more personalistic in nature—and thus less constrained by institutional and state structures or public opinion—than more democratic regimes. As a result, such authoritarian leaders have more freedom to allow their psychological proclivities to influence their decisions and behavior.1 These factors challenge our existing assumptions about the nature of strategic stability and nuclear deterrence; personalistic leaders fall prey to the kinds of psychological biases that have been demonstrated to lead to suboptimal decisions. The introduction of new and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/900/image/coversmallThe Influence of Psychological Factors in the Search for Strategic Stability2026-05-01text/htmlen-USThe Influence of Psychological Factors in the Search for Strategic Stability2026-05-012026TWOProject MUSE®759892026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-01On Optimism About New Military Technologies
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989591
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Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron-1 by Cpl. Alejandro Fernandez.90Throughout human history, technology has advanced military capabilities. Since 1945, US military planners have looked to technology to provide them with technology-based “offsets” to enable the United States to prevail in armed conflict—and there is no question that US military forces are far superior in capability today compared to the numerically larger forces that the US had at the end of World War II. Nevertheless, the US military establishment has also exhibited what often seems to be an unreasonable degree of optimism about how useful new technologies will be for military purposes even in the short run.This article documents a
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/900/image/coversmallOn Optimism About New Military Technologies2026-05-01text/htmlen-USOn Optimism About New Military Technologies2026-05-012026TWOProject MUSE®1273252026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-01Introduction: Emerging Technologies and the Future of Strategic Stability
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989592
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DMA Social Media by Katie Lange.40During the Cold War, strategic stability between the United States and the Soviet Union rested on each state’s possession of nuclear weapons, which created incentives for restraint in the competition between these rival superpowers. Yet emerging technological developments since the end of the Cold War—both in the nuclear and (especially) non-nuclear domains—and their proliferation to new actors and emerging powers place strategic stability in the twenty-first century increasingly in question.Strategic stability has traditionally been understood as the condition in which rivals are mutually deterred and lack the incentive to escalate during conflict. Some theories assumed that the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/900/image/coversmallIntroduction: Emerging Technologies and the Future of Strategic Stability2026-05-01text/htmlen-USIntroduction: Emerging Technologies and the Future of Strategic Stability2026-05-012026TWOProject MUSE®644272026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-01Cyber Operations and Nuclear Stability: Networked Instability?
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989593
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Using AI to improve intelligence gathering by US Air Force.64Over the last half-century, nuclear forces have embarked on a digital transformation. The advent of the microprocessor has made nuclear weapons more precise and controllable, new sensors have turned launch warnings into a big data challenge, and digital networks have shifted the flow of information from space to ground into a matter of milliseconds.1 In the past, command, control, weapons guidance, and intelligence warnings existed on floppy disks and analog processors; in today’s world, nuclear inventories are equipped with precision guidance, networked intelligence and surveillance, and control by digital code. The United States led these efforts
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/900/image/coversmallCyber Operations and Nuclear Stability: Networked Instability?2026-05-01text/htmlen-USCyber Operations and Nuclear Stability: Networked Instability?2026-05-012026TWOProject MUSE®934792026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-01