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Biden Challenged by Softening Public Support for Arming Ukraine
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Others like Andrea Kendall-Taylor, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, said the uncertainty is all the more reason for the president to be aggressive an...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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An End to the War Doesn’t Mean the End of Putin
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Wars, won or lost, rarely unseat strongmen like Putin. A 2016 study by scholars Sarah Croco and Jessica Weeks found that since 1919, authoritarian leaders atop highly personal...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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In Ukraine War, Talking About Peace Is a Fight of Its Own
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At the same time, U.S. officials have advised President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine — with the views of nonaligned countries in mind — that it is in his interest not to appe...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Transatlantic Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Global Financial Watchdog Suspends Russia’s Membership“The measure is both an important political statement as well as a recognition of the threats to the global financial system posed by Russia. The FATF identified Russia’s invo...
By Alex Zerden
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After a Year of War, Ukraine's Military is Facing a New Test of Its Resolve, Holding the Line Until Key Weapons Arrive
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"We're going to find ourselves in a logistics race when it comes to who can stay resupplied with the basics like ammunition," Jim Townsend, the former deputy assistant secreta...
By Jim Townsend
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Transatlantic Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Putin’s Wartime Bluster Obscures Russia’s Precarious FutureSanctions imposed by Group of Seven (G-7) countries — the U.S., Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom — and the European Union are aimed at strangling P...
By Emily Kilcrease
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These Battles and Major Moments have Shaped a Brutal Year of War in Ukraine
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The weeks-long battle for Kyiv matters because "they were able to show that they were up to the fight — 'Give us the tools and we'll do the job' kind of thing," Jim Townsend, ...
By Jim Townsend
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Biden and Putin's dueling speeches show why the end of the Ukraine war is a long way off
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At the annual Munich Security Conference this weekend, the world’s national security influencers’ attention was on the war in Ukraine — particularly, on how to get Ukraine mor...
By Richard Fontaine
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Putin’s Move on Nuclear Treaty May Signal End to Formal Arms Control
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It was a reminder of how fragile the scant remaining restraints on nuclear weapons worldwide appear, 14 years after President Barack Obama, in a signature speech in Prague, ca...
By Jon B. Wolfsthal
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Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
Russia’s New Start Speech is More Scare Tactics Than New Arms Race, Says Former AmbassadorThat fits with how Moscow has historically handled such negotiations. [John] Tefft recalled previous similar displays, such as in 1983 when negotiators working for the then So...
By Samuel Bendett
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In Biden’s Unannounced Visit to Kyiv, a Preview of an Increasingly Direct Contest With Putin
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“Everyone — Ukraine, Europe and now countries in Asia — wants to rearm,” Richard Fontaine, the chief executive of the Center for a New American Security and a former Republica...
By Richard Fontaine
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Biden in Kyiv and Warsaw is a reminder of who really leads Europe
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“The West is now unified in its aims,” wrote Richard Fontaine, chief executive officer of the Center for a New American Security, from this weekend’s conference in Munich. “Lo...
By Richard Fontaine
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security
The Post-cold War Era Is Gone. A New Arms Race Has ArrivedMany lessons from the war in Ukraine have less to do with hardware than the softer issues of logistics, training and strategy that have no borders. “The Russians showed how de...
By Michèle Flournoy
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When Will the War in Ukraine End? Experts Offer Their Predictions.
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Asked about the likely duration of the Ukraine war, analysts in the United States and Europe made similar predictions, with timelines running from months to years to “indefini...
By Michael Kofman
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U.S. Warns Ukraine It Faces a Pivotal Moment in War
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But some analysts warned that neither Russia nor Ukraine is likely to seize a decisive military advantage in the foreseeable future.“It feels like we are playing for a long wa...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Can Putin Win?
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“A repeat assault on Kyiv makes little sense,” Michael Kofman, an American expert on the Russian Armed Forces and a fellow of the Center for a New American Security, a Washing...
By Michael Kofman
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Military Briefing: What the West’s Shifting Red Lines Mean for Ukraine
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Washington’s constant redefinition of which weapons systems would escalate the conflict serves a purpose, some analysts said. “The administration and European allies believe t...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Defense / Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
How arming Ukraine is stretching the US defense industry“The Ukraine conflict has been an important wake-up call for decision makers at the Pentagon,” says Martijn Rasser, director of technology and national security at the Center ...
By Martijn Rasser & Stacie Pettyjohn
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Will More NATO Support Increase Tensions in Asia?
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Jim Townsend, US deputy assistant secretary of defense for Europe and NATO under former President Barack Obama, and currently an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New ...
By Jim Townsend
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U.S. Weighs Turkey, Greece Jet Sales amid NATO Expansion
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Jim Townsend, a former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of defense for European and NATO policy, said the United States has been successful in terms of managing the balance bet...
By Jim Townsend
