Ionut Popescu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3876882 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ionut Popescu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ionut |
| FAMILY NAME | Popescu |
| SIGNATURE | POPESCU I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0334-3995 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Adapting US Defense Strategy to Great-Power Competition
American defense strategy must shift to face the challenges of the new era of great-power competition. This article outlines the trade-offs involved among competing priorities and regions and proposes five strategic pillars to guide the development of a US military strategy, doctrine, and force structure optimized for the needs of the great-power competition era. Without the strategic planning needed to align the Pentagon’s investments and decisi…
Great power competition, offensive realism, and the new debates on US grand strategy
The Pursuit of Dominance
Journal Article The Pursuit of Dominance: 2000 Years of Superpower Grand Strategy by Christopher J. Fettweis Get access Christopher J. Fettweis. New York, Oxford University Press, 2023. 291 pp. $37.99. Ionut Popescu Ionut Popescu Texas State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 139, Issue 1, Spring 2024, Pages 126–127, https://doi.org/10.1093/psquar/qqad127 Publish…
American Grand Strategy and the Rise of Offensive Realism
Pragmatism and Practicality
In his recent article Saving Samuel Huntington and the Need for Pragmatic Civil–Military Relations, Travis proposes a model of civil–military relations based on “pragmatic civilian control.” This model has three main shortcomings. First, it does not adequately answer the question of “professional supremacy” versus “civilian supremacy” in making crucial decisions during wartime. Second, the distinctions between “wars of choice” and “wars of necess…
Grand Strategy vs. Emergent Strategy in the conduct of foreign policy
Does a great power need to formulate a long-term Grand Strategy to guide its foreign policy actions? While some scholars continue to debate the competing merits of various grand strategies, a growing literature now emphasizes emergent learning and improvisation as the keys to success, as opposed to implementing a long-term design. In this article, I explore these scholarly arguments by framing the debate as one between two schools of thought, Gra…
Conservative Internationalism and the Trump Administration
Strategic Uncertainty, the Third Offset, and the US Grand Strategy
This article demonstrates the usefulness of rethinking our understanding of uncertainty and how that might affect the course of the Department of Defense's Third Offset Strategy and US grand strategy in general. In the foreword to the 2015 national military strategy, General Martin E. Dempsey, then-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff unequivocally states: Today's global security environment is the most unpredictable I have seen in 40 years of s…
The Disputed Importance of Process in the Making of American Grand Strategy, 2009
Strategic Theory and Practice
This study argues that the strategic planning process of the Long War on Terror has been conducted in a manner that did not pay sufficient attention to the tenets of classical strategic theory. The article shows that the strategy encapsulated in the National Strategy for Combating Terrorism and the Pentagon's initial responses to the challenges of irregular warfare departed from important principles associated with Clausewitz and other strategic …
Conservative Internationalism and the Trump Administration
Grand Strategy vs. Emergent Strategy in the conduct of foreign policy
Does a great power need to formulate a long-term Grand Strategy to guide its foreign policy actions? While some scholars continue to debate the competing merits of various grand strategies, a growing literature now emphasizes emergent learning and improvisation as the keys to success, as opposed to implementing a long-term design. In this article, I explore these scholarly arguments by framing the debate as one between two schools of thought, Gra…
Pragmatism and Practicality
In his recent article Saving Samuel Huntington and the Need for Pragmatic Civil–Military Relations, Travis proposes a model of civil–military relations based on “pragmatic civilian control.” This model has three main shortcomings. First, it does not adequately answer the question of “professional supremacy” versus “civilian supremacy” in making crucial decisions during wartime. Second, the distinctions between “wars of choice” and “wars of necess…
American Grand Strategy and the Rise of Offensive Realism
Strategic Theory and Practice
This study argues that the strategic planning process of the Long War on Terror has been conducted in a manner that did not pay sufficient attention to the tenets of classical strategic theory. The article shows that the strategy encapsulated in the National Strategy for Combating Terrorism and the Pentagon's initial responses to the challenges of irregular warfare departed from important principles associated with Clausewitz and other strategic …
The Disputed Importance of Process in the Making of American Grand Strategy, 2009
Strategic Uncertainty, the Third Offset, and the US Grand Strategy
This article demonstrates the usefulness of rethinking our understanding of uncertainty and how that might affect the course of the Department of Defense's Third Offset Strategy and US grand strategy in general. In the foreword to the 2015 national military strategy, General Martin E. Dempsey, then-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff unequivocally states: Today's global security environment is the most unpredictable I have seen in 40 years of s…
Conservative Internationalism and the Trump Administration
Grand Strategy vs. Emergent Strategy in the conduct of foreign policy
Does a great power need to formulate a long-term Grand Strategy to guide its foreign policy actions? While some scholars continue to debate the competing merits of various grand strategies, a growing literature now emphasizes emergent learning and improvisation as the keys to success, as opposed to implementing a long-term design. In this article, I explore these scholarly arguments by framing the debate as one between two schools of thought, Gra…
American Grand Strategy and the Rise of Offensive Realism
Pragmatism and Practicality
In his recent article Saving Samuel Huntington and the Need for Pragmatic Civil–Military Relations, Travis proposes a model of civil–military relations based on “pragmatic civilian control.” This model has three main shortcomings. First, it does not adequately answer the question of “professional supremacy” versus “civilian supremacy” in making crucial decisions during wartime. Second, the distinctions between “wars of choice” and “wars of necess…
The Pursuit of Dominance
Journal Article The Pursuit of Dominance: 2000 Years of Superpower Grand Strategy by Christopher J. Fettweis Get access Christopher J. Fettweis. New York, Oxford University Press, 2023. 291 pp. $37.99. Ionut Popescu Ionut Popescu Texas State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 139, Issue 1, Spring 2024, Pages 126–127, https://doi.org/10.1093/psquar/qqad127 Publish…
Adapting US Defense Strategy to Great-Power Competition
American defense strategy must shift to face the challenges of the new era of great-power competition. This article outlines the trade-offs involved among competing priorities and regions and proposes five strategic pillars to guide the development of a US military strategy, doctrine, and force structure optimized for the needs of the great-power competition era. Without the strategic planning needed to align the Pentagon’s investments and decisi…
Great power competition, offensive realism, and the new debates on US grand strategy
International Relations and Foreign Policy (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Grand strategy (6 works) · Economics (3 works) · Military History and Strategy (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works)