Michael O’hanlon

Biographic Data

ID399815
NAMEMichael O’hanlon
GIVEN NAMESMichael
FAMILY NAMEO’hanlon
SIGNATUREO’HANLON M
AFFILIATIONSBrookings Institution
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS88
TOTAL CITATIONS371
AUTHOR COUNT85
EDITOR COUNT3
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1983
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX10

  • Is There an American Way of War? Why the Answer Must Be No

    Michael O’hanlonARTICLEThe Washington Quarterly2025

  • Cause for Relief? US Strategic Policies in Trump’s Second Term

    Michael O’hanlon, Michael O'HanlonARTICLESurvival2025

  • Backstopping Ukraine’s Long-Term Security: An Alternative to Nato Membership

    Lise M Howard, Michael O’hanlonARTICLEThe Washington Quarterly2024

  • How to Defend Taiwan: Leading with Economic Warfare

    Michael O’hanlonARTICLEThe Washington Quarterly2021

  • The War on Terror Has Not Yet Failed: A Net Assessment After 20 Years

    Hal Brands, Michael O’hanlonARTICLESurvival2021Cited by: 1

    The error that American policymakers are most likely to make is abandoning a struggle that the United States has now developed a reasonably efficient approach to waging

  • The Senkaku Paradox: Risking Great Power War Over Small Stakes

    Michael O’hanlon, Edward J Lincoln et al.BOOKJapan's new global role2019

    America needs better options for resolving potential crisesIn recent years, the Pentagon has elevated its concerns about Russia and China as potential military threats to the United States and its allies. But what issues could provoke actual conflict between the United States and either country? And how could such a conflict be contained before it took the world to the brink of thermonuclear catastrophe, as was feared during the cold war? Defense…

  • The Long-Term Basis for a U.S.-Korea Alliance

    Michael O’hanlonARTICLEThe Washington Quarterly2018

    What should be the long-term future of the military alliance between the United States of America and the Republic of Korea (ROK) after North Korean demilitarization—that is, once North Korea is no

  • Nato’s Limits: A New Security Architecture for Eastern Europe

    Michael O’hanlonARTICLESurvival2017

    Whatever its merits and motivations, the process of NATO enlargement has run its course

  • Strategic Reassurance and Resolve: U.S.-China Relations in the Twenty-First Century

    Open AccessJames Steinberg, James P Steinberg et al.BOOKStrategic Reassurance and Resolve2015

  • Toward a “Reaganov” Russia: Russian Security Policy after Putin

    Clifford G Gaddy, Clifford Gaddy et al.ARTICLEThe Washington Quarterly2015

    Russia's military annexation of Crimea in early 2014, and the ensuing crisis in its relations with neighboring countries and the Western world, brought to the fore an age-old question that had fade

  • Sizing U.S. Ground Forces: From “2 Wars” to “1 War + 2 Missions”

    Michael O’hanlon, Michael O'HanlonARTICLEThe Washington Quarterly2014

    During the Cold War, the United States varied between a “1 1⁄2 war” and a “2 1⁄2 war” framework for sizing its main combat forces. This framework prepared forces for one or two large wars, and then a s

  • The future of the enthnographic museum (Respond to this article at http: (Www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)

    Open AccessC Harris, Michael O’hanlon et al.ARTICLEAnthropology Today2013Cited by: 9References: 7

    This essay discusses the recent past of ethnographic museums and raises questions about their future. In the last thirty years or so, ethnographic museums have faced many challenges arising both from within and beyond anthropology to the extent that in the post‐colonial and post‐modern era they could be said to have suffered an identity crisis. Many have been renamed, remodelled or rehoused in spectacular new premises (such as the Musée du Quai B…

  • Obama's Weak and Failing States Agenda

    Michael O’hanlon, Michael O'HanlonARTICLEThe Washington Quarterly2012

  • The Other Afghan Transition

    Michael O’hanlon, Michael O'HanlonARTICLESurvival2012

    Western policy debates tend to dwell on how fast to bring home the troops. But Afghanistan's 2014 presidential elections may be more important than the change of military mission

  • American Force: Dangers, Delusions, and Dilemmas in National Security by Richard K. Betts

    Open AccessMichael O’hanlonARTICLEPolitical Science Quarterly2012

  • The Need to Increase the Size of the Deployable Army

    Michael O’hanlon, Michael O'HanlonARTICLEThe US Army War College Quarterly…2011

    After criticizing the Clinton Administration for overdeploying and overusing the US military in the 1990s, the Bush Administration is now doing exactly the same thing--except on a much larger scale. Having made the decision to overthrow Saddam Hussein, and having badly underestimated the difficulty as well as the force requirements of accomplishing the post-Saddam stabilization effort successfully, the Bush Administration or its successor now nee…

  • Plan A-Minus for Afghanistan

    Michael O’hanlon, Michael O'Hanlon et al.ARTICLEThe Washington Quarterly2011

  • The Science of War: Defense Budgeting, Military Technology, Logistics, and Combat Outcomes

    Michael O’hanlon, Michael E O'Hanlon et al.BOOKScience of War2009

  • Toward Reconciliation in Afghanistan

    Michael O’hanlon, Michael O'HanlonARTICLEThe Washington Quarterly2009Cited by: 1

  • Who Will Fight For Us

    Open AccessMichael O’hanlon, Michael E O’HanlonARTICLEOrbis2009

  • Resurrecting the Test‐Ban Treaty

    Michael O’hanlon, Michael O'HanlonARTICLESurvival2008

    The comprehensive test-ban treaty makes very good strategic sense for the United States and the world. The next American president should build on Bill Clinton's signing of that treaty, as well as George W. Bush's tacit compliance with its strictures, and send it to the US Senate for ratification. It makes sense whether Iran tests its own nuclear weapon in the coming years or not; either way, Washington will need more capacity to apply more press…

  • What If a Nuclear-Armed State Collapses

    Michael O’hanlon, Michael O'HanlonARTICLECurrent History2006

    The nuclear danger posed by the potential for state failure in a North Korea or a Pakistan is one of the most menacing facing the international environment

  • Is the media being fair in Iraq

    Michael O’hanlon, Michael O'Hanlon et al.ARTICLEThe Washington Quarterly2006References: 1

    Using original data to systematically assess individual outlets and the media overall, the authors conclude that broad criticism of the U.S. media is often badly overstated

  • Defense Strategy for the Post-Saddam Era

    Steven Metz, Michael O’hanlon et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal Canada s…2006

    The Brookings Institution has long produced an analysis of America's defense budgets and policies. The war on terror and the ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have forced upon this country soaring defense budgets and unprecedented challenges in policymaking. In the newest installment in this tradition, leading foreign policy expert Michael O'Hanlon offers policy recommendations for strengthening the ability of America's military to respo…

  • Arms Control and American Security

    Michael A Levi, Michael Levi et al.ARTICLECurrent History2005

    The United States and the world ... need a new strategy for controlling dangerous technologies in an age of terror