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• Commentary

  Technology & National Security

  The Russians Are Getting Better

  The West will need to recalibrate its expectations to match reality, which is that this is a war of attrition....

  By Margarita "Rita" Konaev & Owen J. Daniels

  • Foreign Affairs
  • September 6, 2023
• Commentary

  Technology & National Security

  Agile Ukraine, Lumbering Russia: The Promise and Limits of Military Adaptation

  During more than 13 months of war against one of the world’s largest armies, Ukraine’s military has continually stood out for one quality in particular: its ability to adapt. ...

  By Margarita "Rita" Konaev & Owen J. Daniels

  • Foreign Affairs
  • March 28, 2023
• Commentary

  Transatlantic Security

  The Real Key to Victory in Ukraine

  This emerging war of attrition is more likely to come down to “sustainment”—the ability of each side to ensure a relentless influx of troops, ammunition, and heavy equipment t...

  By Margarita "Rita" Konaev

  • Foreign Affairs
  • June 29, 2022
• Video

  Transatlantic Security

  Military equipment especially important in this stage of Ukraine war

  Margarita Konaev, adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, joins Government Matters to discuss the latest in Ukrainian military strategy to counter the...

  By Margarita "Rita" Konaev

  • May 15, 2022
• Commentary

  Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security

  Can Ukraine’s Military Keep Winning?

  Ukraine’s military has undergone a radical transformation over the past eight years, thanks to intensive reorganization and reform efforts and billions of dollars in Western s...

  By Margarita "Rita" Konaev & Polina Beliakova

  • Foreign Affairs
  • May 9, 2022
• Commentary

  Technology & National Security

  Russia’s Urban Warfare Predictably Struggles

  The complications Russia has encountered in urban conflict in Ukraine’s Mariupol, Kharkiv, and Kyiv are not simply a function of Russian incompetence....

  By Margarita "Rita" Konaev & Kirstin J.H. Brathwaite

  • Foreign Policy
  • April 4, 2022
• Video

  Transatlantic Security

  Russia: An Assumptions Check | Day 3: CNAS 2021 National Security Conference

  As part of the CNAS 2021 National Security Conference, CNAS experts hosted an interactive virtual session to check key assumptions about Russia, the challenges it poses, and h...

  By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Michael Kofman, Edward Fishman & Margarita "Rita" Konaev

  • June 10, 2021