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Ukraine
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 of a twelve-story residential building, where a seventy-one-year-old burned alive. Another killed a fourteen-year-old girl sitting on a bench in...
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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 the borderline region of Kursk. Given that this was the first foreign invasion of Russia since World War II, Russia’s...
Read more »Ukraine’s Gamble | The Risks and Rewards of the Offensive Into Russia’s Kursk Region
On August 6, Ukraine launched a bold offensive into Russia’s Kursk region, leveraging surprise and speed to quickly bypass Russian defensive lines. Since then, Ukraine has captured a significant tract of Russian territory and taken hundreds of Russian soldiers...
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Ukraine and the Frontlines of the War on Disinformation
On July 8, a Russian Kh-101 rocket flew into a children’s hospital in the center of Kyiv. On July 9, no less a figure than Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin’s primary mouthpiece, took to TASS, a preferred Kremlin megaphone, to...
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In Conversation with Benedetta Berti | An Inside Look at NATO Policy Planning
The following conversation was recorded on July 2, 2024 and has been edited for clarity. You can listen to the conversation here. Rick Landgraf: With me today is Benedetta Berti. She is the Director of Policy Planning in the...
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Is US Aid to Ukraine Driven by a Brutal Logic?
Last week, at NATO’s 75th anniversary summit in Washington D.C., the United States and its NATO partners agreed to support Ukraine “on its irreversible path to full Euro-Atlantic integration, including NATO membership.” President Joe Biden also announced the “Ukrainian...
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In Conversation with Seth Johnston: NATO’s History, Purpose, and Evolution
The following conversation has been edited for clarity. You can listen to the conversation here. Rick Landgraf: With me today is Seth Johnston. Seth is a US Army officer and the author of How NATO Adapts: Strategy and Organization...
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In Conversation with Amb. Vershbow: Understanding the US Role in NATO
The following conversation has been edited for clarity. You can listen to the conversation here. Rick Landgraf: With me today is Alexander Vershbow who served as the Deputy Secretary General of NATO from 2012 to 2016, the US Ambassador...
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Anticipating NATO’s Next Moves at the Washington Summit
On July 9-11, the heads of state and government of NATO’s 32 allies will convene in Washington to discuss the most pressing issues facing the alliance and provide strategic guidance for its activities. The NATO summit in Washington comes...
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Russian Strategic Culture and the War in Ukraine
Introduction The Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, shocked the world. Currently, the Russian-Ukrainian war is the biggest European war since the end of World War II. The full-scale invasion was a continuation of unlawful actions in...
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