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Nicholas Romanow is an active-duty Naval Officer stationed in the Washington D.C. area and a recent graduate of The University of Texas at Austin, where he was also an Undergraduate Fellow at the Clements Center for National Security. Twitter: @NickRomanow
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Books
Oh Lord, for Alliance!
Mira Rapp-Hopper highlights the extensive, if often invisible, benefits to America of its political and military alliances in Shields of the Republic.