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Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
Ukraine Deploying Machine-Gun Mounted Robots to Attack Putin's TroopsBoth Russia and Ukraine are developing UGVs intended to "replace human soldiers in the most dangerous and casualty-intensive storming raids," said Samuel Bendett, of the Cente...
By Samuel Bendett
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Next Year Could Be Even Tougher than This Last for Ukraine, Forcing It to Fight Irregularly to Hold On
The future of Ukraine's war effort, though, is now perhaps more uncertain than it has been at any time since the early days of Russia's failed assault on Kyiv. After its lackl...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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Defense / Transatlantic Security
What Happens in Ukraine If U.S. Aid Disappears?So both sides seem committed to continuing the war — but what would it look like if the US decides to bow out? “A failure to supply military aid to Ukraine isn’t going to caus...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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Ukraine Aid Remains in Limbo as Congress Nears Recess
There is little doubt that a significant delay in additional funding from the U.S. would adversely impact Ukraine on the battlefield, but experts differed on the question of h...
By Nicholas Lokker
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U.S. and Ukraine Search for a New Strategy After Failed Counteroffensive
“I don’t think it’s overstating it to highlight how important the U.S. assistance is,” said Andrea Kendall-Taylor, a scholar at the Center for a New American Security. “If the...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Russian Lawmakers Approve a Budget with a Record Amount Devoted to Defense Spending
Record low unemployment, higher wages and targeted social spending should help the Kremlin ride out the domestic impact of pivoting the economy to a war footing but could pose...
By Richard Connolly
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Explosive Drones Are Everywhere In Ukraine. So the Infantry Head Underground, And Erect Screens.
A Ukrainian FPV drone chasing down two Russian air-defenders speeding along on a motorbike. A Ukrainian drone watching a Russian infantry squad take shelter inside a wrecked a...
By Samuel Bendett
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As Kim Inspects Russia’s Military, Putin Cultivates ‘Axis of the Sanctioned’
“I think it’s really serious,” said Andrea Kendall-Taylor, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, who previously led analyses of Russia by the U.S. intelli...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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‘Nothing left to lose’: Putin embraces role of spoiler with Kim Jong-un summit
But there is an obvious logic to the Kremlin courting North Korea. It has ammunition that Russia needs to continue its war with Ukraine, where the Kremlin has had to ration it...
By Mike Kofman
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After death of Russia’s Wagner chief, what happens to his mercenary army?
“Parts may be folded in under the Ministry of Defense, Russian intelligence, or to other oligarchs and leaders found more compliant, but none of those assets will wither at th...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Charred wreckage, burning questions after Putin calls Prigozhin a ‘man of complicated fate’
If Putin indeed ordered Prigozhin killed, the sheer brazenness of the act would probably deter would-be opponents, at least in the short term, said Andrea Kendall-Taylor, a Ru...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Ukrainian Troops Trained by the West Stumble in Battle
“The counteroffensive itself hasn’t failed; it will drag on for several months into the fall,” said Michael Kofman, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International...
By Michael Kofman
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Russia’s Fighter Jets Have Gone from Harassing Us Aircraft to Actually Breaking Them as Moscow Flexes Its Muscles Where It Still Can
Russia sees its activities in Syria "as one area that really speaks to Russian global power and influence," Nicholas Lokker, an expert on Russian foreign policy at the Center ...
By Nicholas Lokker
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Could Putin Lose Power?
Another former C.I.A. analyst, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, who was a deputy national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia between 2015 and 2018 and now runs the Transatlanti...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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West to Putin: We hate you. Don’t go.
At the moment, the lack of a clear successor, or the possibility of a violent warlord such as Prigozhin taking charge, leaves too many uncomfortable variables to openly root f...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Ramzan Kadyrov’s ‘TikTok battalion’ seeks to replace Wagner in Ukraine
Apti Alaudinov, commander of Kadyrov’s Akhmat battalion, said that his fighters had been deployed to Rostov to stave off the rebellion and came within 500 to 700 metre distanc...
By Samuel Bendett
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Failed Russian Mutiny Boosts Prospects for More US Arms to Ukraine
With funds for Ukraine not expected to run out for months, some analysts say the more immediate concern is the outcome of Ukraine’s counteroffensive, which is proving a diffic...
By Richard Fontaine
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Insights into Russia's Weekend of Instability
Events over the weekend of June 24, 2023, unfolded quickly as reports came in that the Wagner Group Head Yevgeny Prigozhin had orchestrated an armed insurgency inside Russia. ...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Nicholas Lokker, Michael Kofman & Richard Fontaine
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Short-Lived Mutiny in Russia Sheds Light on Putin’s Hold on Power
Andrea Kendall-Taylor, a longtime Russia intelligence analyst now at the Center for a New American Security, said the United States has limited capacity to influence events th...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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As revolt in Russia subsides, U.S. and allies brace for what comes next
A weakened Putin could face challenges from the Russian elite, or inspire leaders in Russian regions such as Chechnya and Tatarstan, many of which have long-standing grievance...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor