Bandwagoning is a strategy for the weak.

The most dangerous states in the international system are continental powers with large armies.

Decapitation is a fanciful strategy.

Simply put, the most powerful state is the one that prevails in a dispute.

States care about relative wealth, because economic might is the foundation of military might.

Offensive realism predicts that the United States will send its army across the Atlantic when there is a potential hegemon in Europe that the local great powers cannot contain by themselves.

When World War II started on September 1, 1939, the German army contained 3.74 million soldiers and 103 divisions.