Harry J. Kazianis

Harry J. Kazianis (@Grecianformula) is Editor-In-Chief of 19FortyFive and National Security Journal. Kazianis recently served as Senior Director of National Security Affairs at the Center for the National Interest. He also served as Executive Editor of its publishing arm, The National Interest. Kazianis has held various roles at The National Interest, including Senior Editor and Managing Editor over the last decade. Harry is a recognized expert on national security issues involving North & South Korea, China, the Asia-Pacific, Europe, and general U.S. foreign policy and national security challenges. Past Experience Kazianis previously served as part of the foreign policy team for the 2016 presidential campaign of Senator Ted Cruz. Kazianis also managed the foreign policy communications efforts of the Heritage Foundation, served as Editor-In-Chief of the Tokyo-based The Diplomat magazine, Editor of RealClearDefense, and as a WSD-Handa Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS): PACNET. Kazianis has also held foreign policy fellowships at the Potomac Foundation and the University of Nottingham. Kazianis is the author of the book The Tao of A2/AD, an exploration of China’s military capabilities in the Asia-Pacific region. He has also authored several reports on U.S. military strategy in the Asia-Pacific as well as edited and co-authored a recent report on U.S.-Japan-Vietnam trilateral cooperation. Kazianis has provided expert commentary, over 900 op-eds, and analysis for many outlets, including The Telegraph, The Wall Street Journal, Yonhap, The New York Times, Hankyoreh, The Washington Post, MSNBC, 1945, Fox News, Fox Business, CNN, USA Today, CNBC, Politico, The Financial Times, NBC, Slate, Reuters, AP, The Washington Examiner, The Washington Times, RollCall, RealClearPolitics, LA Times, Newsmax, BBC, Foreign Policy, The Hill, Fortune, Forbes, DefenseOne, Newsweek, NPR, Popular Mechanics, VOA, Yahoo News, National Security Journal and many others.

Aerospace & Defense

China Now Fields a Missile That Reaches Past 350 Kilometers. Europe’s Meteor ‘No Escape’ Missile Might Finally Have A Rival

For a decade, every long-range air-to-air missile in the world has been measured against Europe's Meteor. Now its Chinese rival has done the one...

Harry J. KazianisJuly 5, 2026

Aerospace & Defense

China’s J-36 Is Credited With the Range to Reach Taiwan From 1,500 Miles Out. America’s New F-47 — Its Longest-Legged Fighter Ever — Cannot

For the first time, the Air Force published official performance figures for its next fighter, and the numbers set a record. Measured against the...

Harry J. KazianisJuly 5, 2026

Space and Technology

At 70,000 Feet, Olympus Mons on Mars Stands Two and a Half Times Taller Than Mount Everest. It Is the Largest Volcano in the Solar System, and It May Not Be Extinct

A person standing on the largest volcano in the solar system would never know it. Olympus Mons rises 70,000 feet over Mars on slopes...

Harry J. KazianisJuly 5, 2026

Space and Technology

NASA Has Not Launched Anything Faster Than Voyager in 48 Years. Here Is the Real Menu of Machines That Could Finally Beat It

Voyager 1 is about to become the first object one light-day from Earth, still whispering home on a plutonium supply the size of a...

Harry J. KazianisJuly 5, 2026

Pilots from the 121st Air Refueling Wing of the Ohio Air National Guard based at Rickenbacker IAP, refuel a pair of F-117 Stealth Fighters from the 49th Fighter Wing based at Holloman AFB in New Mexico. The aircraft is being retired and this was the last refueling operation of The Pilots on this mission were Major Paul Hughes, Captain Danny Slater and the Boom Operator was MSgt Bob Derryberry. The photographs are by SMSgt Kim Frey of the 121st ARW. The aircraft were at Wright Patterson AFB where the F-117 program is managed for an informal retirement ceremony. The F-117 is being replaced by the F-22 Raptor which also uses stealth technologies to avoid detection.

Aerospace & Defense

The U.S. Tried to Sneak Two F-117 Stealth Jets Through Neutral Austria — a 1950s Swedish Fighter Caught Them

Too many registrations on the flight plan, ten minutes in Austrian airspace, and photos on a security council's table a week later. The F-117...

Harry J. KazianisJuly 5, 2026

This artistic impression depicts our Solar System neighbour Venus, where scientists have confirmed the detection of phosphine molecules. The molecules were detected in the Venusian high clouds in data from the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, in which ESO is a partner. Astronomers have speculated for decades that life could exist in Venus’s high clouds. The detection of phosphine could point to such extra-terrestrial “aerial” life.

Space and Technology

Terraforming Venus means removing 90 Earth atmospheres of carbon dioxide, cooling a planet that melts lead, and importing an ocean — the newest NASA idea skips all of it

Venus crushes, roasts, and corrodes anything that touches it, and it has almost no water. But fifty kilometers up, the pressure matches Earth's —...

Harry J. KazianisJuly 5, 2026

F-14 Tomcat at Aviation Museum of Kentucky

Aerospace & Defense

The Most Feared Missile of the Cold War Missed Every Shot America Fired in Anger — in 2024 the Navy Built One Again

The US Navy built the deadliest air-to-air missile of its era, fired it in anger three times, and hit nothing. The pilots who made...

Harry J. KazianisJuly 5, 2026

Aerospace & Defense

Sweden Built Five Generations of Saab Fighters for a War That Never Came. Ukraine Just Bought the Newest for the War That Did

Four Cold War fighters wrote the playbook Ukraine just bought, and almost nobody outside Sweden remembers them. One went to war for the UN...

Harry J. KazianisJuly 5, 2026

Aerospace & Defense

Boeing Lost the F-35 in 2001 — and the U.S. Air Force Designed the F-47 NGAD Specifically to Avoid What That Loss Created

In October 2001, Boeing lost the largest fighter program ever conceived and nearly lost the fighter business with it. For twenty-four years the company...

Harry J. KazianisJuly 5, 2026

ATLANTIC OCEAN (Oct. 29, 2019) USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) conducts high-speed turns in the Atlantic Ocean. Ford is at sea conducting sea trials following the in port portion of its 15 month post-shakedown availability. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Connor Loessin)

Aerospace & Defense

The Nimitz Just Retired, the Kennedy Is Two Years Late, and Now the Ford Needs the Yard — America’s Aircraft Carrier Math Is Down to a Handful

The longest U.S. Navy aircraft carrier deployment since Vietnam left marks — and the yards she enters finish carrier work 113 days late on...

Harry J. KazianisJuly 5, 2026

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China Now Fields a Missile That Reaches Past 350 Kilometers. Europe’s Meteor ‘No Escape’ Missile Might Finally Have A Rival

Aerospace & Defense

China’s J-36 Is Credited With the Range to Reach Taiwan From 1,500 Miles Out. America’s New F-47 — Its Longest-Legged Fighter Ever — Cannot

Space and Technology

At 70,000 Feet, Olympus Mons on Mars Stands Two and a Half Times Taller Than Mount Everest. It Is the Largest Volcano in the Solar System, and It May Not Be Extinct

Space and Technology

NASA Has Not Launched Anything Faster Than Voyager in 48 Years. Here Is the Real Menu of Machines That Could Finally Beat It

Aerospace & Defense

The U.S. Tried to Sneak Two F-117 Stealth Jets Through Neutral Austria — a 1950s Swedish Fighter Caught Them

Space and Technology

Terraforming Venus means removing 90 Earth atmospheres of carbon dioxide, cooling a planet that melts lead, and importing an ocean — the newest NASA idea skips all of it

Aerospace & Defense

The Most Feared Missile of the Cold War Missed Every Shot America Fired in Anger — in 2024 the Navy Built One Again

Aerospace & Defense

Sweden Built Five Generations of Saab Fighters for a War That Never Came. Ukraine Just Bought the Newest for the War That Did

Aerospace & Defense

Boeing Lost the F-35 in 2001 — and the U.S. Air Force Designed the F-47 NGAD Specifically to Avoid What That Loss Created

Aerospace & Defense

The Nimitz Just Retired, the Kennedy Is Two Years Late, and Now the Ford Needs the Yard — America’s Aircraft Carrier Math Is Down to a Handful

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