The Centre for Statecraft & National Security is excited to host Harry Halem for a talk on his new book, Breaking the New Axis: A U.S. Grand Strategy for Eurasia.
Blending history, strategy, and policy, this 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.
This innovative work fundamentally redefines how the United States should approach grand strategy when confronting the “New Axis” of China, Russia, and Iran by revealing their critical weaknesses—internal pressures, lack of cohesive coordination, and short-term thinking—and presenting a unique opportunity for America to turn the tide.
Authors Dr Seth Cropsey and Harry Halem meticulously explain why Eurasia, the world’s largest landmass and historically the epicenter of power, remains strategically paramount. Structured into four compelling sections, Breaking the New Axis guides readers through the intricacies of geopolitics, strategy, and large-scale combat: exploring Eurasian strategic thought, dissecting threats from revisionist powers, examining defense technology’s role, and demanding U.S. strategic coherence. The book offers actionable solutions, with a detailed roadmap for preparing the United States to deter and, if necessary, win a Eurasian-wide war: revitalising the defense industrial base, reorganising command-and-control for combat, leveraging strategic intelligence, and strengthening alliances across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
Engaging, deeply insightful, and unequivocally urgent, Breaking the New Axis is an indispensable read for policymakers, strategists, and anyone invested in global stability.
About the Speaker:
Harry Halem is Senior Fellow at Yorktown Institute and Senior Fellow at Policy Exchange. His new book, co authored with Dr Seth Cropsey provides a blueprint for US grand and military strategy that safeguards US interests in an era of strategic upheaval. Rather than focusing on one region, or on global competition, Halem and Cropsey argue that the US must maintain leverage in the strategically interconnected Eurasian rimland. A work of geostrategy, military thought, and strategic history, the book is crucial reading for policymakers and military officials on both sides of the Atlantic, the Middle East, and in Asia.
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