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The Senate’s NATO Backstop Is About to Lose Its Biggest Champions
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Jim Townsend, a former senior Pentagon official who also served in the U.S. Mission to NATO in Brussels, now an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security...
By Jim Townsend
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Putin’s Doomsday Weapon Sparks New Era of Submarine Warfare
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“You’ve got to ask who the Russians are saying these things for,” says Dr Richard Connolly, an expert on Russian defence policy, associate fellow at the Royal United Services ...
By Richard Connolly
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Xi, Putin, Kim Flex Muscles in Pacific as Trump Pulls Last Aircraft Carrier
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Andrea Kendall-Taylor, a former U.S. national intelligence officer serving today as senior fellow and director of the Transatlantic Security Program at the Center for a New Am...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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‘Death by a Thousand Cuts’: How Decades of Munitions Neglect Left the U.S. Unprepared
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“They now see — and they’re right about this — a very real threat at some point from the Russians. So they could give more Patriots to Ukraine,” says Jim Townsend, an adjunct ...
By Jim Townsend
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The US Wants ‘Creative’ Ways To Punish Iran. What Might They Be?
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But as the war drags on and the costs go up, the CENTCOM sender may have been hoping to come across a "silver bullet" strategy, or new tactics that pack the same punch Ukraine...
By Jim Townsend
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Inside the Deal to Clinch Lindsey Graham’s ‘Sanctions Bill from Hell’
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Richard Connolly, an expert on the Russian economy at the Royal United Services Institute, a think tank in London, and an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New America...
By Richard Connolly
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Why Is the Pentagon Splitting Up US Military Casualties in Iran?
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Former Pentagon official Jim Townsend, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, told Newsweek that the administration is "playing games" by dividing...
By Jim Townsend
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Russia's 'Axis Of Upheaval' Is Built To Last Beyond Ukraine, Analyst Kendall-Taylor Says
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Yet according to Andrea Kendall-Taylor, senior fellow and director of the Transatlantic Security Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), viewing this groupin...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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NATO Weathers Another Trump Storm but Braces for More After Ankara Summit
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"Even if Trump makes nice, the damage is done," said Jim Townsend, a former senior Pentagon official now at the Center for a New American Security think tank. "Russia and the ...
By Jim Townsend
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Keflavík Remains Important Despite ‘Uncertainty’ from Washington
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Jim Townsend, an expert at the Center for a New American Security, worked for years on European and NATO affairs at the Pentagon and was, among other things, US assistant secr...
By Jim Townsend
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Senate GOP Quietly Seeks to Curb Trump Troop Moves from Europe
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“I think what the Democrats would say, and what the Republicans are saying too, is we’ve got to do this as a transition and not just dump it on the Europeans and say good luck...
By Jim Townsend
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U.S. Tells Europe, Canada to Boost NATO Air and Naval Forces as Washington Steps Back
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Jim Townsend, a former senior Pentagon official now at the Center for a New American Security think tank, said the move sent the wrong political signal to U.S. allies and t...
By Jim Townsend
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Europe Troop Move Puts Spotlight on Last Man Out of Afghanistan
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Downgrading to a lieutenant general would be “against the grain” for allies who see Russia as a near-term threat, said Jim Townsend, a former deputy assistant secretary of def...
By Jim Townsend
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‘Insatiable’ Demand: Inside the Fight for a Bigger U.S. Special Forces Budget
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“If they’ve got 100 Shaheds coming at them, how are they going to deal with that?” Jim Townsend, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for European and NATO policy, t...
By Jim Townsend
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Ex-Nato Commander Breedlove: Iran Crisis Exposes a West ‘More Divided than Its Adversaries'
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For retired four-star General Philip Breedlove, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), the missing consultations are part of the problem. In an interview with R...
By Philip Breedlove
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‘Closer to a Break than Ever’: Can NATO Survive If Trump Pulls the U.S. Out?
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By Jim Townsend
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Trump Is Claiming Victory, Even As What Exactly America Won Remains Unclear
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“When things are all over, I don’t think there will be much in the plus column except weakening their military for the moment,” said Jim Townsend, who has worked at both the P...
By Jim Townsend
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The NATO Chief Is on an Alliance ‘Rescue Mission’ with Trump
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“It’s a rescue mission, in some ways, to try to keep the U.S. at least in the alliance,” said Jim Townsend, a former Pentagon official who oversaw Europe and NATO policy durin...
By Jim Townsend
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Hungary’s Orbán Has Long Annoyed the European Union. Now Some Hope He Faces Defeat
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It didn’t start that way. After the Cold War, Hungary joined the EU along with nine other countries in 2004 in the bloc’s largest expansion ever. There was widespread optimism...
By Jim Townsend
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Pottery Barn Rule Out, Trump’s ‘I Broke It, You Fix It’ Rule In
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“I anticipate he walks claiming victory and says the Europeans and the Gulf states have to sort out the strait,” agreed Jim Townsend, an analyst with the Center for a New Amer...
By Jim Townsend
