On January 24, Scowcroft Center Military Fellows Commander Daniel Vardiman, Lieutenant Colonel Tyson Wetzel, Colonel John Barranco, and Colonel Benjamin Johnson were quoted in an article in the New Zealand Herald titled “Ukraine crisis: Big clue war is about to start in Europe.” The article quotes from their recent Atlantic Council article titled “Will Russia make a military move against Ukraine? Follow these clues.”
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