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Changing Rules of Warfare

New Atlanticist
Jul 29, 2025

The Russia pressure menu: Options to convince Putin to negotiate on Ukraine 

As the US president cuts his deadline for Russia to ten days, there are several options for him to increase pressure on Moscow to pursue peace.

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Changing Rules of Warfare

New Atlanticist
Jul 24, 2025

Dispatch from Manila: A lesson in calling out Chinese maritime aggression

By
Markus Garlauskas, Philip W. Yu

As the Philippines has focused more on Chinese threats to itself, Manila also seems increasingly inclined to see its own security as connected to that of the broader region.

China
Indo-Pacific

Changing Rules of Warfare

New Atlanticist
Jul 1, 2025

The US must enforce sanctions to prevent Iran from rebuilding its nuclear program

By
Kimberly Donovan

To ensure that Tehran cannot get its hands on the financial resources it would need to rebuild its nuclear program, Iran sanctions enforcement should start with China.

Economic Sanctions
Iran

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New Atlanticist

Mar 18, 2010

Changing Rules of Warfare

By Derek Reveron

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen recently gave a speech in Kansas where he outlined a vision of warfare for the current era. Reflecting on nine years of continuous warfare in Central Asia and twenty years military involvement in Iraq, he proposed three rules that challenge traditional notions of using the […]

New Atlanticist

Mar 17, 2010

What Conclusions Should We Be Drawing from Sunday’s Regional Elections in Russia?

By Nikolas Gvosdev

One of the things that struck me in looking at the results was the similarities to Mexico’s elections back in the day when the Institutionalized Revolutionary Party (PRI) held sway.

New Atlanticist

Mar 17, 2010

Is the United States a Serious Nation?

By Harlan Ullman

To many, THE issue confronting the United States is a government that is dysfunctional and even badly broken. To others, the immense and swelling fiscal debt and deficits must redressed before the nation slips into bankruptcy. Still others argue that values are the centerpiece of America and unless differences over guns, gays, gestation periods and […]

New Atlanticist

Mar 16, 2010

NATO Transformation on the Cheap

By James Joyner

General Stéphane Abrial, Commander Allied Command Transformation (ACT), declared that, "With defense budgets under growing competition from other lines of public expenditure it is therefore imperative that we are able to assure our publics that we are wasting nothing, that we have not spared ourselves any necessary reform and ask for nothing that is not […]

New Atlanticist

Mar 16, 2010

Ukraine’s Success Story

By Edward Lucas

The British journalist Edward Lucas speaks on the need for Ukraine to choose between the Russian dictatorships of the law and the European rule of law.

European Union International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Mar 15, 2010

NATO-EU Partnership: Small Obstacles Loom Large

By James Joyner

There’s a growing consensus that NATO and the EU must strengthen their cooperation on military planning. Yet the chief obstacles to doing so — they rhyme with Freece and Gurkey — are so taboo Allied leaders are reluctant to mention them by name.

European Union International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Mar 15, 2010

Stepan Bandera: Hero of Ukraine?

By Alexander Motyl

Former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko’s decision to confer the title of Hero of Ukraine on nationalist leader Stepan Bandera on Jan. 22 has unleashed a storm of outrage inside and outside Ukraine. Critics accuse Yushchenko of whitewashing a Nazi-era fascist and betraying the ideals of the Orange Revolution that brought him to power.

Ukraine

New Atlanticist

Mar 12, 2010

Biden’s Israel Boondoggle

By Arnaud de Borchgrave

The anemic Middle East "peace process" is beginning to look like The Fool’s Errand, the computer game that is a meta-puzzle with a cryptic treasure map for a road that’s no longer on the map for the benefit of a wandering fool who seeks his fortune in the mysterious and magical land of Tarot.

New Atlanticist

Mar 11, 2010

Hillary Clinton Hits BRIC Wall Over Iran Sanctions

By James Joyner

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton returned home from Brazil unable to secure cooperation on increased pressure against Iran’s nuclear program.  Nick Gvosdev says we shouldn’t be surprised — and that the ramifications go far beyond this one vote.

New Atlanticist

Mar 10, 2010

Iran Sanctions: Failing But Multiplying

By James Joyner

America’s regime of sanctions on Iran are ineffective but we’re likely to see more of them.  That’s the conclusion of a panel of experts assessing the state of US-Iran relations at an event rolling out a comprehensive compendium of policies, laws, and regulations pertaining to Iran.

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