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Interview: Why Ukrainian And Russian Forces Are Preparing For A Long War
Russian forces are edging closer to seizing the last pocket of resistance in Ukraine’s eastern Luhansk region, with battles raging in Syveryodonetsk and near its sister city, ...
By Margarita "Rita" Konaev
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Will China and Russia Stay Aligned?
We at Foreign Affairs have recently published a number of pieces on China and Russia, their emerging partnership, and whether this alignment will last. To complement these art...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Why this tiny island in the Pacific may be ground zero in a war with China
In a war with China, the American territory of Guam would likely become the 21st Century Pearl Harbor. Stacie Pettyjohn, a defense strategy and wargaming expert, said that mos...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Ukraine Is at Its ‘Most Dangerous Point’ of the War
In February, Ukraine shocked the world by driving Russian forces from Kyiv, fending off Vladimir Putin’s attempt to quickly capture the country. Almost four months later, the ...
By Michael Kofman
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National Security Human Capital Program
Inflation is crushing already struggling US troops and their familiesWhile Americans everywhere are feeling the strain of inflation, military families are also facing challenges unique to a job that maintains a rigid pay scale and leaves you li...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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'They're like our nerd warriors': How the Treasury Department is waging economic war on Russia
Three months into US-led sanctions designed to crush Russia's economy for its war in Ukraine, Russia has appeared surprisingly resilient. The ruble has rebounded and is now wo...
By Elina Ribakova
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Biden Is Still Worried About Poking the Russian Bear
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is more than 100 days old, and despite providing enough U.S. military aid during that time to nearly double Kyiv’s defense budget, the ...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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The Fight to Survive Russia's Onslaught in Eastern Ukraine
Russia’s war in Ukraine is not the same conflict that it was earlier this spring. The Russian Army’s initial campaign, in February and March, was a three-front invasion with l...
By Michael Kofman
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Russia claims advances in Ukraine amid fierce fighting
Russia on Tuesday claimed to have taken control of 97% of one of the two provinces that make up Ukraine’s Donbas, bringing the Kremlin closer to its goal of fully capturing th...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Could Seizing Russian Assets Help Rebuild Ukraine?
Consider the practicalities of freezing assets first. The central bank’s currency reserves are a relatively straightforward target. More than half of Russia’s reserves are hel...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Ukraine’s Training Problem
Britain today announced that it would send Ukraine its most advanced long-range artillery systems. The announcement came days after President Biden approved giving Kyiv advanc...
By Michael Kofman
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The Last Days of the Afghan Embassy
In January 2002, shortly after the fall of the first Taliban government in Kabul, then-Afghan interim leader Hamid Karzai flew to Washington. There, he met with then-U.S. Pres...
By Lisa Curtis
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Web3 is set to transform the internet. Can it bring global social and economic change?
What is Web3? How are we going to use it? What does it mean for our future? What are its limitations and points of opportunity? Alex Zerden joins Khushbu Shah from The Atlanti...
By Alex Zerden
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China secretly building naval facility in Cambodia, Western officials say
China is secretly building a naval facility in Cambodia for the exclusive use of its military, with both countries denying that is the case and taking extraordinary measures t...
By Richard Fontaine
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Momentum shifts in Ukraine war as Russia advances in the Donbas
Haggard faces stare blankly from inside minivans ferrying survivors from towns and villages bludgeoned by Russian armor. Ukrainian ambulances carry the wounded and dead from t...
By Jeffrey Edmonds
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How Ukraine’s new weapons reflect a very different battlefield
The HIMARS have been at the top of Ukraine’s wish list, even more so than the fighter jets they were calling for in the beginning of the war. That’s because, as Rita Konaev, d...
By Margarita "Rita" Konaev
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Russia’s War on Ukraine at 100 Days Has No End in Sight, Threatening Global Costs
After 100 days, Russia’s war on Ukraine is turning into a bloody slog with no end in sight, causing mounting devastation in Ukraine and prolonged costs world-wide. The biggest...
By Chris Dougherty
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National Security Human Capital Program
Most military recruits come from families of people who served. Experts say that's not sustainable.The military is having a tough time finding new recruits, and one factor may be its heavy reliance on families of those who’ve served. The U.S. Military's new recruiting class...
By Nathalie Grogan
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China has the power to take Taiwan, but it would cost an extremely bloody price
On his first trip to Asia as United States President last week, Joe Biden gave his strongest warning yet to Beijing that Washington was committed to defending Taiwan militaril...
By Tom Shugart
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Why Ukraine is pleading with the US for rocket artillery
Because the Russians have plenty of multiple-launch rocket systems and they are well skilled at using them, the Ukrainians need comparable rocket artillery “to have a fighting...
By Col James Frey