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What Trump and Putin Want From the Alaska Summit
“Putin actually doesn’t need to achieve much from this meeting, other than the meeting itself and not having to make any concessions,” Celeste Wallander, an adjunct senior fel...
By Celeste Wallander
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Defense / Transatlantic Security
German Military Targets 8,300 Drone Systems, Lagging NATO AlliesThe German military is looking to secure 8,300 drone systems by the end of the decade, far fewer than some of its NATO allies aim for, as spending on unmanned defense systems ...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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Defense / Transatlantic Security
Pentagon Faces 'Wake-Up Call' To Meet Drone Innovation Highlighted In Ukraine WarWhen a U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone loitered over Baghdad airport in the early hours of January 3, 2020 and fired a Hellfire missile that killed the powerful Iranian Major General Q...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Trump Slaps 'Secondary Tariff' on India Over Russian Oil TradeU.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday followed through on a threat to punish India for buying Russian oil, slapping a 25% "secondary tariff" on all U.S. imports from the wo...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Defense / Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
Ukraine Bets Big on Interceptor Drones as Low-Cost Air Shieldhen President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said at the end of last month that Ukraine needs $6 billion to fund the production of interceptor drones, setting a target of 1,000 a day, he...
By Samuel Bendett
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Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security / Middle East Security
The Anti-U.S. Axis Isn’t Dead, Just RestingJune was a bad month for the theocrats in Tehran, what with all those Israeli and American bombs falling on them. It also seemed — at least superficially — to be a setback for...
By Richard Fontaine, Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Nicholas Lokker
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Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
Russia’s Rocket-Powered Kamikaze Drones Are Now Hitting Kyiv — Here’s Everything We KnowRussian rocket-powered Shahed-type drones were used the massive aerial attack on Kyiv overnight on July 31, news outlet TSN reported, citing Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko....
By Samuel Bendett
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Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security / Middle East Security
JUST IN: Growing Alignment Among Potential Foes Creating Challenges for U.S., Experts SayThe alignment between Russia, China, North Korea and Iran carries implications across the United States’s diplomatic and economic foreign policy, but the military threat is of...
By Richard Fontaine & Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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New Report Forecasts the Rising Military Challenges from the Axis of Upheaval
Washington, July 28, 2025 — A new report released today by the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) warns of the threat posed by intensifying military cooperation among t...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Nicholas Lokker
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Transatlantic Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Trump’s Threat of Russia-Related Secondary Tariffs Sparks SkepticismPresident Donald Trump’s threat to punish Russia’s trading partners if it does not pause its war on Ukraine could backfire, derailing negotiations with two important U.S. trad...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Transatlantic Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Senate Republicans Eye Russia Sanctions as Trump Amps Up Putin RhetoricSenate Majority Leader John Thune said Wednesday he expects a vote as soon as this month to place severe new sanctions on Russia, the latest sign of a growing fracture between...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Transatlantic Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Lack of New U.S. Sanctions Allows Restricted Goods and Funds Into RussiaSince President Trump returned to office in January, the United States has issued no new sanctions against Russia related to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In some cases,...
By Edward Fishman
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Defense / Transatlantic Security
Fallout from the Ukraine Munitions FreezeUkraine has been struggling to repel a relentless barrage of Russian airstrikes on its cities, and analysts in Washington and Europe are racing to assess the consequences of a...
By Becca Wasser
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Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
Russia Is Ready to Begin Its Summer OffensiveVladimir Putin appears increasingly confident that Russia will ultimately prevail on the battlefield in Ukraine as Moscow wages a bloody summer offensive....
By Samuel Bendett
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Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security
Threat of U.S.-China Land Grab in Space Demands Urgent Legal ReformsThe United States is in an arms race with China, similar to the one it had with the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Space is being militarised as Beijing and Washington are ...
By Jon B. Wolfsthal
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Transatlantic Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Graham’s ‘Bone Crushing’ Russia Sanctions Bill Could Freeze U.S. Trade with the World’s Largest EconomiesSen. Lindsey Graham has pledged that his expansive sanctions bill would be “bone crushing” for the Russian economy....
By Edward Fishman
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Defense / Transatlantic Security
How the U.S. Could Be Vulnerable to the Same Kind of Drone Swarm Attack Ukraine Unleashed on Russia’s Bomber FleetUkraine’s shock drone strike on Russia’s strategic bomber fleet this week has generals and analysts taking a new look at threats to high-value United States aircraft at bases ...
By Tom Shugart
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Transatlantic Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Trump Set to Square Off With New German Chancellor Merz on Trade, UkrainePresident Donald Trump will meet Thursday with new German Chancellor Friedrich Merz for the first time since Merz swept into power vowing to distance Germany from the United S...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Stop Asking How To Make Putin Walk Away From Ukraine. It’s the Wrong Question.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin looks increasingly cornered....
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Trump Says Russia and Ukraine May Need to ‘Keep Fighting’ Before Making Peace
President Trump said Russia and Ukraine might need to “keep fighting” before either side is ready for a cease-fire....
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor