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CNAS Responds: 2023 NATO Summit in Vilnius
Press Note
From July 11-12th, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) met in Vilnius, Lithuania to address pressing challenges faced by the alliance, enhance NATO's deterrence and ...
By Richard Fontaine, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Lisa Curtis & Carisa Nietsche
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Biden gets major win from Turkey ahead of key NATO summit
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“I’m sure the drafters are working, as we speak, to come up with a communique language that says something like, ‘Well not now, but soon,’” said Jim Townsend, adjunct senior f...
By Jim Townsend
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Four maps explain how Sweden and Finland could alter NATO’s security
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“Swedish and Finnish NATO membership would provide NATO with another reinforcement route through the Baltic Sea,” said Carisa Nietsche, an associate fellow for the Transatlant...
By Carisa Nietsche
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Putin turns to smear campaign in power move
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“People will sort of talk about this that Putin is weak, and why didn’t he follow through on what he said … but there is a history of him sort of taking these less straightfor...
By Peter Schroeder
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Could Putin Lose Power?
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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.
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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
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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
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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
Press Note
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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Chaos in Russia brings uncertainty, opportunities for war in Ukraine
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Peter Schroeder, who served as a senior intelligence official in both the Trump and Biden administrations focused on Russia and Ukraine, said an important takeaway from the ch...
By Peter Schroeder
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Wagner mutiny reveals ‘cracks’ in Russia, says US Secretary of State
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The Wagner PMC has been Russia's most successful fighting force in Ukraine so far, and the fallout of the mutiny is likely to impact Moscow's war efforts significantly. Fighte...
By Nicholas Lokker
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As revolt in Russia subsides, U.S. and allies brace for what comes next
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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
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Short-Lived Mutiny in Russia Sheds Light on Putin’s Hold on Power
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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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Ukraine’s counteroffensive so far: steady gains, heavy losses
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Jim Townsend, an adjunct senior fellow in the Center for a New American Security’s Transatlantic Security Program, said Ukraine is moving through entrenched defenses and minef...
By Brad Dress
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Ukraine counteroffensive may take months and there is ‘no guarantee it will win war’, warn western officials
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We have been trying to tamp down expectations, as it is very difficult to predict,” says Jim Townsend, a former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for European and Nato ...
By Jim Townsend
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Damage to Russian-held hydroelectric plant floods south Ukraine battlefield
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Michael Kofman, a Russian military analyst at the Washington-based Center for a New American Security, said he did not expect the dam breach to have a big impact on Ukraine’s ...
By Michael Kofman
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NATO nations look past Ukraine offensive to long-term deterrence pacts
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Some former officials cautioned that such agreements should not be seen as a substitute for the formal security guarantees enshrined in NATO’s Article 5, the bloc’s mutual def...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Russia Claims Bakhmut, but Some See a ‘Pyrrhic Victory’
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But a swift offensive by Ukrainian forces in the late summer and fall cleared Russia’s military out of Izium and out of a large chunk of Ukraine’s northeast. This removed the ...
By Michael Kofman
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Biden Pays Silent Tribute to Victims of Hiroshima Bomb
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Mr. Biden’s visit came at a pivotal moment in the atomic age, with the “prospect of Armageddon,” as he has described it, greater than at any time since the Cuban Missile Crisi...
By Jon B. Wolfsthal
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Biden is going to Hiroshima at a moment when nuclear tensions are on the rise
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Jon Wolfsthal, who worked on nuclear proliferation in the Obama Administration, helped plan that trip. A year later, he found himself talking to a local official during a visi...
By Jon B. Wolfsthal
