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• In The News
  • The New York Times
  • April 21, 2022
  Next Phase of War Will Be Pivotal for Russia and Ukraine, U.S. Says

  Senior Biden administration officials say they believe that the next four weeks will shape the eventual outcome of Russia’s war in Ukraine, with long-lasting ramifications tha...

  By Michael Kofman

• In The News
  • The New York Times
  • April 6, 2022
  Russia Is Recruiting Mercenaries and Syrians to Ukraine, Western Officials Say

  As Russian troops retreat from northern Ukraine and focus operations on the country’s east and south, the Kremlin is struggling to scrape together enough combat-ready reinforc...

  By Michael Kofman

• In The News
  • The New York Times
  • March 12, 2022
  Over Ukraine, Lumbering Turkish-Made Drones Are an Ominous Sign for Russia

  “It is so perplexing, and no one is quite sure what went wrong,” said Samuel Bendett, an expert on the Russian military at the Center for a New American Security, a Washington...

  By Samuel Bendett & Michael Kofman

• In The News
  • The New York Times
  • February 3, 2022
  U.S. Troops Will Be Deployed to NATO Allies in Eastern Europe

  President Biden has approved the deployment of about 3,000 additional American troops to Eastern Europe, administration officials said on Wednesday. The troops, including 1,00...

  By Jim Townsend

• In The News
  • The New York Times
  • January 23, 2022
  Biden Weighs Deploying Thousands of Troops to Eastern Europe and Baltics

  President Biden is considering deploying several thousand U.S. troops, as well as warships and aircraft, to NATO allies in the Baltics and Eastern Europe, an expansion of Amer...

  By Jim Townsend

• In The News
  • The New York Times
  • January 10, 2020
  U.S. Unsuccessfully Tried Killing a Second Iranian Military Official

  The American military unsuccessfully tried to kill a senior Iranian military official in Yemen on the same day a drone strike killed Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, Iran’s most po...

  By Peter Harrell

• In The News
  • The New York Times
  • November 13, 2019
  U.S. Struggles to Keep Allies in Fight Against ISIS in Syria

  As Trump administration officials try to convince allies that the United States remains committed to the fight against the Islamic State in Syria they are facing a significant...

  By Nicholas Heras

• In The News
  • The New York Times
  • October 13, 2019
  Pullback Leaves Green Berets Feeling ‘Ashamed,’ and Kurdish Allies Describing ‘Betrayal’

  American commandos were working alongside Kurdish forces at an outpost in eastern Syria last year when they were attacked by columns of Syrian government tanks and hundreds of...

  By Nicholas Heras

• In The News
  • The New York Times
  • May 10, 2019
  Pentagon Builds Deterrent Force Against Possible Iranian Attack

  The Pentagon will deploy a Patriot antimissile battery to the Middle East to shore up defenses against Iranian threats, part of a series of carefully calibrated deployments in...

  By Elizabeth Rosenberg