The best Military Strategy newsletters

EDO publishes long-form research papers and essays on defence intelligence, military adaptation, and emerging technology, including SSRN preprints and a 'Signal' series assessing technology readiness. Readers get formal frameworks, historical case studies, and explicit assessments of what is real versus hype.

Independent geopolitical analysis of war, power and strategy, published as structured risk reports and essays on current conflicts. Readers get an executive-summary style assessment of topics such as space security and Middle East energy chokepoints, plus occasional author updates.

A strategy newsletter for security and technology leaders, mixing reviews of vulnerability management trends with historical strategy lessons applied to security operations. The excerpts combine reported detail (Microsoft's AI-driven patch surge) with well-sourced essays on military strategists like John Boyd.

Escalation Trap offers real-time analysis of a US-Iran war, focusing on escalation dynamics, likely next moves and their strategic and economic consequences. Readers get the author's historical perspective, odds estimates and paid access to live briefings.

An undergraduate journal from the University of Chicago publishing essays on international affairs, with recent issues covering US naval strategy around Taiwan, China's energy vulnerabilities and coercion options, and the spread of the Russia-Ukraine war into African and Middle Eastern theaters. Each piece is researched, footnoted, and built around a clear argument about deterrence and strategy.

The newsletter argues that US alliances and Gulf monarchies are weakening under Iranian pressure, with recent issues focusing on Saudi Arabia's defense vulnerabilities and tribal discontent in Jordan. It is written as strongly partisan opinion and offers few sourced details to back its dramatic claims.