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This report is a part of FPRI’s edited volume Russia’s War in Syria: Assessing Russian Military Capabilities and Lessons Learned. Since the late 2000s, the Russian Federation has expanded its naval footprint in the Eastern Mediterranean, and even resurrected...
Read more »This report is a part of FPRI’s edited volume Russia’s War in Syria: Assessing Russian Military Capabilities and Lessons Learned. Introduction Before the start of the military intervention in Syria in 2015, even top Russian generals were uncertain what...
Read more »This report is a part of FPRI’s edited volume Russia’s War in Syria: Assessing Russian Military Capabilities and Lessons Learned. Introduction The Syrian Civil War produces a new set of problems involving extended urban combat, intense fights for key...
Read more »This report is a part of FPRI’s edited volume Russia’s War in Syria: Assessing Russian Military Capabilities and Lessons Learned. Introduction The Russian Federation’s intervention in Syria has been a qualified success from the Kremlin’s perspective, and certainly from...
Read more »Download The Hunt for Mobile Missiles: Nuclear Weapons, AI, and the New Arms Race This report examines the increasing ability of major powers to destroy moving targets, in particular, land-based mobile missiles. Yet, at the same time, it analyzes...
Read more »This report is a part of FPRI’s edited volume Russia’s War in Syria: Assessing Russian Military Capabilities and Lessons Learned. Introduction From the moment Vladimir Putin officially took the reins of power in 2000, he focused on the promotion...
Read more »This report is a part of FPRI’s edited volume Russia’s War in Syria: Assessing Russian Military Capabilities and Lessons Learned. “It’s your turn, doctor.” Those words, scrawled on a wall by teenagers in the southern Syrian city of...
Read more »This edited volume, Russia’s War in Syria: Assessing Russian Military Capabilities and Lessons Learned, published by the Foreign Policy Research Institute, sets out to examine the Russian Federation’s way of war in Syria. It consists of seven chapters,...
Read more »Seven years ago, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported proudly on the city’s 20th annual Welcome America! celebration. Its bold headline quoted Mayor Michael Nutter to the effect that “Philadelphia owns the Fourth of July.” What evidence exists to substantiate that...
Read more »With the unveiling of the 2018 National Defense Strategy, then-Secretary of Defense James Mattis announced that great power competition was now the “primary focus of U.S. national security.” After nearly 20 years of muddling through counterinsurgencies in Iraq...
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