Podcasts July 24, 2025 Future of Collaborative Combat Aircraft How might combat collaborative aircraft be used to fight a war in Europe? Or the Indo-Pacific? To discuss these questions, and the latest from the YFQ-44A, President Aaron Stein sat down with Andrew Van Timmeren, the director of air... Read more	Analysis July 18, 2025 Fighting Irregular Wars: Is it Time to Rethink the Laws of Perfidy? By: Nadav Tikochinsky On June 8, 2024, Israeli forces executed a hostage-rescue operation in Nuseirat, central Gaza. The Israeli operation was widely reported to have utilized civilian disguises, with some forces allegedly being transported in civilian vehicles and wearing civilian clothing. In... Read more	Analysis July 2, 2025 Foreign Influence is Fueling the War in Sudan By: Charles A. Ray The current war raging in Sudan began on April 15, 2023, with violent clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Two years later, the conflict shows no signs of abating, primarily due... Read more
Podcasts July 1, 2025 From Russia with Risk Here on the Bear Market Brief, a lot of what we focus on is, simply put, risk: what might happen, and what might it mean? On this episode, geoeconomic and country risk expert Rachel Ziemba joins Aaron Schwartzbaum to delve in the discipline... Read more	Expert Commentary June 30, 2025 Balancing Acts: Deterrence and Reassurance in US-China Strategy By: Michael Beckley, Nikolas K. Gvosdev, Takuya Matsuda, Aaron Glasserman, Shannon Vaughn, M. Terry Cooke, Joshua Freedman, Carlos Salazar, Chris Estep Managing Tensions, Maintaining Balance—Michael Beckley This month, we’re zeroing in on a core tension in US strategy toward China: how to strike the right balance between deterrence and reassurance. As Washington strengthens military postures, deepens coalitions, and hardens supply... Read more	Analysis June 27, 2025 Latvia’s Renewed Conscription Turns Two By: Māris Andžāns July 1, 2025, marks two years since the first conscripts began their 11-month service under Latvia’s renewed conscription system, known as the National Defence Service. Contrary to what Latvia’s Ministry of Defence claimed back in 2017, the return of... Read more
Analysis June 27, 2025 Covert Action: Evaluating the Future Leadership of US Strategic Covert Operations By: Philip Wasielewski, Doug Wise Two recent essays published by the Center for the Study of Intelligence and Nontraditional Warfare at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) rekindle interest in a perennial debate about whether covert action, particularly paramilitary operations, and other capabilities related... Read more	Podcasts June 25, 2025 Russian Political Warfare Operations in the Balkans The western Balkans, including Bosnia and Kosovo, were the scene of some of the bloodiest warfare and atrocities in Europe post-World War Two until Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Approximately twenty-five years after the last of the fighting in the... Read more	Analysis June 24, 2025 Russia Won’t Sit Out a US-China Asia-Pacific War By: Garrett Campbell Contrary to the popular assessments of the Sino-Russian strategic partnership, Chinese and Russian national interests primarily converge in the Asia Pacific and Arctic, not in Europe and Ukraine. For the last two decades, the United States has not paid... Read more