Russia Still a “Major Player”

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Aug 25, 2024

After a failed attack, Hezbollah’s propaganda seeks to prevent a wider war with Israel

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David Daoud

Committed as Hezbollah is to saving its Gaza-based allies, the group does not currently want a full war with Israel.

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Russia Still a “Major Player”

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Aug 21, 2024

How quickly can Taiwan integrate US weapon systems? Speed is essential to help deter China.

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Adam Kozloski

To better prepare Taiwan to defend itself, the United States needs more transparency into Taipei’s weapons integration challenges.

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Russia Still a “Major Player”

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Aug 21, 2024

Invasion? What invasion? Putin is downplaying Ukraine’s Kursk offensive

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Peter Dickinson

Vladimir Putin’s efforts to downplay Ukraine’s invasion of Russia have severely dented his strongman image and make a mockery of the West’s escalation fears, writes Peter Dickinson.

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Oct 23, 2008

Russia Still a “Major Player”

By Peter Cassata

Russia in Global Affairs editor Fyodor Lukyanov recently proclaimed, “[O]ur long effort to integrate with Western institutions, to become part of the Western system, is over.  The aim now is to be an independent power in a multi-polar world in which Russia is a major player.” 

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New Atlanticist

Oct 20, 2008

Afghanistan: Can’t Afford to Lose, Can’t Afford to Fight

By James Easaw

The ongoing global financial crisis has truly turned a war that NATO can’t afford to lose, the ongoing struggle against the forces of extremism in Afghanistan, into a war that it may not be able to afford.

Afghanistan
NATO

New Atlanticist

Oct 17, 2008

NATO Enlargement: The Unanswered Question

By James Joyner

FAS’ Steven Aftergood draws our attention to “NATO Enlargement: Albania, Croatia, and Possible Future Candidates,” [PDF] a recent study by the Congressional Research Service.

NATO
Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Oct 16, 2008

NATO in Kosovo: 10 Years Later

By James Easaw

In the wake of UN Security Council Resolutions 1160 and 1199 of March and September 1998, the international community grappled with how to deal with the atrocities being perpetrated in a little known province of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) called Kosovo.  A decade later, Kosovo, an independent state in Europe, has been moved […]

NATO
Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Oct 8, 2008

NATO Expansion: Time for a Deep Breath

By Nikolas Gvosdev

Let’s get a few things off our chests. The Germans are still goose-steppers who would warm up the panzers in an instant to engage in a fifth partition of Poland with their Red Army counterparts. The French are cheese-eating surrender monkeys who want to appease the big bad bear of the East. The Italians (or […]

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NATO

New Atlanticist

Oct 8, 2008

Why Britain Wants Talks with the Taliban

By Jeffrey Lightfoot

A split has emerged between London and Washington over the best way forward in Afghanistan. Over the last week, British diplomats and military commanders have expressed growing doubts about the success of the current NATO strategy. Faced with an imminent change in leadership in the White House and an increasingly deadly stalemate in Afghanistan, London […]

NATO
Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Sep 26, 2008

Untying NATO’s Hands: Why the Alliance Needs an Energy Policy

By James Easaw

Since Russia’s August invasion and occupation of Georgia, the short and long term implications have been much debated.  Is Russia reasserting itself in an attempt to become the global power that its predecessor the USSR was?  What’s going on inside Putin’s head?  Is Russia a “rational actor?”  What should NATO do about Ukraine?

NATO
Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Sep 26, 2008

Foreign Policy Debate: Obama vs. McCain

By Neil Leslie

John McCain and Barack Obama are expected to talk this evening about foreign policy and national security in the first of three Presidential debates scheduled in the run-up to the election. In a 90-minute segment broadcast to tens of millions of people, the two candidates will each deliver a vision for the future of U.S. […]

NATO
Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Sep 22, 2008

Wake Up, Gassiev is Calling!

By David Smith

In the predawn hours of August 7, Russia invaded Georgia.  Gassiev, a border guard of the separatist regime in the Georgian territory of South Ossetia, was at the southern end of the Roki Tunnel that leads from Russia.  At 3:52 a.m., he used his mobile telephone to tell his supervisor: “The armor and people . […]

NATO
Russia

New Atlanticist

Sep 22, 2008

NATO’s Tunnel Vision: Seeing Beyond Russia

By Nikolas Gvosdev

Perusing the media reports after the meeting of NATO defense ministers in London, I was most struck by what did not appear. For instance, no apparent discussion about what is a growing threat to the economic security of the entire Euro-Atlantic world—the increasing ability of both “rogue states” and non-state actors (warlords, rebels and terrorist […]

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