Something Old, Something New: Transatlantic Discords in the Second Trump Presidency
Tensions are rising across the Atlantic, and the rhetoric is heating up. For months, Europe has been bracing for...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Something Old, Something New: Transatlantic Discords in the Second Trump Presidency
A nation must think before it acts.
Ukraine
A Photo Op Goes Sideways: Causes and Effects of the Trump-Zelensky Fracas
I’m sitting in Ukraine as I write this. In a case of perhaps the most awkward timing imaginable, I...
As Long as Russia is Advancing, the War will Continue
As Ukraine entered its fourth year of Russia’s full-scale war, it was geopolitics, not the war itself, that...
A Deal with Russia at Ukraine’s Expense Will Not Bring Peace
Discussions of possible ceasefire negotiations in the war between Russia and Ukraine focus on the concessions that Ukraine could...
45 Days in Ukraine, 1,000 Days in War
The title of this essay would have been a little bit different if I had spent five more days...
The New ‘Baltic Way’: Assessing the Baltic Defensive Line Concept
This article was originally written as a USAWC Fellow Strategy Paper for the United States Army War College under...
What’s At Stake in Ukraine: European Security in a Broader Context
Executive Summary Virtually all of the commentary on Russia’s aggression against Ukraine has focused on those two states...
The Operational and Strategic Genius of the Kursk Offensive
Current analysis of the recent offensive conducted by Ukrainian forces in the Kursk region of Russia is incomplete at...
Ukraine’s Argument For Striking Back
On a sunny Sunday afternoon, August 30, Russia launched five glide bombs toward Kharkiv. One bomb obliterated the entrance...
What Ukraine’s Kursk Incursion Tells Us About Putin’s Russia
In early August, the Ukrainian army broke into Russia and, virtually undeterred, rapidly advanced seizing a significant area of...