Lessons of Ukraine for the US Army
Clausewitz wrote that the first task of a commander is to establish “the kind of war on which...
A nation must think before it acts.
Categories for Chain Reaction
Defense 101: Military Basics and the War in Ukraine
Robert Hamilton and Rick Landgraf join Aaron to tackle (almost) every question you were too embarrassed to ask about...
Latvian-Lithuanian Connections from Morta to Modernity
How have Latvian and Lithuanian histories intertwined over the last millennium? Who was Queen Morta, a Latvian princess by...
How Do Wars End?
Have you heard calls for Ukraine and Russia to “just negotiate”? What does theory say about how (and why)...
Changing Tides in the Black Sea Region
The Black Sea region looms increasingly large as the locus of great power, military, political, and economic competition. FPRI’s...
Powderkeg Party: Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
On this special double feature, The Continent visits the Balkans. How do we make sense of continued nationalism, the...
Fight or Flight: Resistance in Russia
If you’re a Russian against the war in Ukraine, what options do you have? And how has resistance...
Report in Short: War as an Accelerator
How has Russia’s (latest) invasion of Ukraine exacerbated issues in domestic governance and political economy? András Tóth-Czifra joins Aaron...
The School of Democracy in Interwar Estonia
How did Estonian democracy erode in the 1930s? How did liberal dissidents express their discontent under a more...
Ukraine and US National Security
US assistance has been a key factor in Ukraine’s ability to not only survive Russia’s invasion but turn the...