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Armenia Rebuilds Its Defense: Distancing From Russia, Learning From Ukraine

Leonid Nersisyan, Vazgen Ghazaryan, and Michael Kofman

The Air War Over Ukraine and Russia

Justin Bronk and Michael Kofman

How Ukraine Put Russia on the Backfoot

Michael Kofman, Dara Massicot, and Ryan Evans

Holding Ground: Ukraine, Russia, and the Politics of Persistence

Dara Massicot, Michael Kofman, and Ryan Evans

Russia Can Afford to Take a Beating in Ukraine

Collin Meisel and Mathew Burrows

Will Russia’s War on Ukraine Keep Resisting Trump’s Diplomacy?

Michael Kofman, Dara Massicot, and Ryan Evans

In Brief: The War in Ukraine and the Russian Economy

Maria Shagina, Chris Miller, Janis Kluge, Stephanie Petrella, and Maximillian Hess

In Brief: Russia, Ukraine and the African Peace Mission

Michelle Gavin, Ebenezer Obadare, Raphael Parens, and Fola Aina

Backing Ukraine Against Russia, With Colin Kahl and Derek Chollet

Ryan Evans, Undersecretary Colin Kahl, and Counselor Derek Chollet

From Ukraine and Beyond: Unpacking the Sino-Russian Relationship

Zack Cooper, Melanie Marlowe, Christopher Preble, and Doyle Hodges

Russia’s War in Ukraine: How Does this End?

Zack Cooper, Melanie Marlowe, and Christopher Preble

Known Knowns and Known Unknowns in the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

William Inboden, Robert Chesney, Jeremi Suri, Sheena Greitens, Stephen Slick, Alexandra Sukalo, and Zoltán Fehér

The Wargame Before the War: Russia Attacks Ukraine

James Lacey, Tim Barrick, and Nathan Barrick

Would NATO Membership for Ukraine Undermine Article 5 Itself?

Jennifer Kavanagh and Christopher McCallion

Russia’s Next Top General: Promotions in Russian Military Leadership

Dmitry Gorenburg, Julian G. Waller, Gabriela I. Rosa-Hernandez, and Cornell Overfield

Inside Ukraine’s Battlefield Innovation Loop

Catarina Buchatskiy and Viktoriia Honcharuk

The Other Border Problem: How Russia and China’s Lawfare Threaten the Arctic

Jill Goldenziel, Kathy Paradis, and Kathryn Bryk Friedman

How Much Longer Can Russia Last in the War?

Collin Meisel and Mathew Burrows

Why Russia’s Export Failures Matter For India

Vasabjit Banerjee and Benjamin Tkach

The Global Reach of the War in Ukraine

Sergey Radchenko, Jonathan Corrado, Hanna Notte, Eric Watkins, and Christopher Hernandez-Roy

Does Russian Deterrence Begin in Poland?

Alexander Lanoszka and Michael A. Hunzeker

Can More British and French Nuclear Cooperation Help Deter Russia?

Zsofia Wolford, James Black, and Paul van Hooft

Why Russian-Indian Relations Have Been Steady in the Storm

Dmitry Gorenburg, Julian G. Waller, Jeffrey Edmonds, and Jeff Kucik

The State of Russian Influence in the Middle East

Anna Borshchevskaya, Yevgeniya Gaber, Nicole Grajewski, Giorgio Cafiero, and Daniel Rakov

Gen. Donahue on Deterring Russia in Europe

Gen. Christopher Todd Donahue and Ryan Evans

Calling Out Russia: France’s Shift on Public Attribution

Quentin Jalabert, Damien Van Puyvelde, and Thomas Maguire

Russian and Ukrainian Advantages in Drone Warfare

Dominika Kunertova, Stacie Pettyjohn, Erik Lin-Greenberg, and Caitlin Lee

Armed Neutrality for Ukraine Is NATO’s Least Poor Option

Jennifer Kavanagh and Christopher McCallion

Ukraine’s Daunting Choice: Trading Its Land and People for Future Security

Ralph Clem, Erik Herron, Timothy Hoheneder, and Khrystyna Pelchar

Assessing Ukraine’s Prospects in 2025

Michael Kofman and Ryan Evans

In Brief: How Key European States Will Approach Ukraine in 2025

Emma Salisbury, Gesine Weber, Roderick Parkes, and Monika Sus

Ukraine, Europe, and the Art of the Deal

Luis Simón and Lotje Boswinkel

In Brief: Russia’s Hybrid War

Dimitar Bechev, Richard Giragosian, Gorana Grgić, and Batu Kutelia

Russian Roulette on the Red Sea

Ari Heistein and Daniel Rakov

In Brief: How Are Iranian Weapons Affecting the War in Ukraine?

Nicole​​​​ Grajewski, Hamidreza Azizi, Nakissa Jahanbani, and Jim Lamson

How Dangerous is this Summer for Ukraine?

Michael Kofman and Ryan Evans

In Brief: Will Europe Continue to Support Ukraine?

Frank Sauer, Jeremy Shapiro, Gesine Weber, Ulrike Franke, and Alexander Lanoszka

Russia’s Mercenary-Industrial Complex in Africa

Christopher Faulkner and Raphael Parens

Techcraft on Display in Ukraine

Brian A. Hester, Dennis Doyle, and Ronan A. Sefton

Mike Kofman and Rob Lee on Drones in Ukraine

Michael Kofman, Rob Lee, and Ryan Evans

Containing Global Russia

Michael Kimmage and Hanna Notte

Ukraine at War, From Avdiivka to Zaluzhny

Michael Kofman and Ryan Evans

Ukraine Prepares for 2024

Michael Kofman and Nick Danforth

Learning from Real Wars: Gaza and Ukraine

David Barno and Nora Bensahel

Getting Sporty in Russia’s Arctic

Katarzyna Zysk and Rebecca Pincus

Looking Beyond the Offensive in Ukraine

Michael Kofman and Ryan Evans

Rebuilding Ukraine’s Economy Starts Now

Ralph Clem, Erik Herron, and Matthew Lantzy

In Brief: The North Korean-Russian Threat

Jenny Town, Ankit Panda, and Jonathan Corrado

Iran, Russia, and the Challenges of “Inter-Pariah Solidarity”

Mathieu Droin and Nicole​​​​ Grajewski

Assessing Ukraine’s Three Axes of Advance

Michael Kofman and Aaron Stein

How Advanced Is Russian-Chinese Military Cooperation?

Dmitry Gorenburg, Elizabeth Wishnick, Paul Schwartz, and Brian Waidelich

More than a Hobby: Informal Security Assistance to Ukraine

Jahara Matisek, William Reno, and Sam Rosenberg

One Year of War in Ukraine

Christopher Preble, Zack Cooper, and Melanie Marlowe

Learning Lessons from Ukraine: Is Defense Dominant?

Christopher Preble, Zack Cooper, and Melanie Marlowe

A Disquieting Winter at War in Ukraine

Ryan Evans and Michael Kofman

A Conversation with Ukraine’s Special Operations Commander

Brig. Gen. Viktor Khorenko and Ryan Evans

What Will Be Ukraine’s Pre-Winter Gains?

Michael Kofman and Ryan Evans

Military Lessons from the War in Ukraine

Melanie Marlowe, Christopher Preble, and Zack Cooper

The Kremlin in Command, Part II: Syria and the First Assault on Ukraine

Lawrence Freedman, Michael Kofman, and Ryan Evans

Russia’s Plan to Stay in the War

Michael Kofman and Ryan Evans

Ukraine’s Window of Opportunity?

Michael Kofman and Ryan Evans

An Energy Strategy to Defeat Russia?

Zack Cooper, Melanie Marlowe, and Christopher Preble

Don’t Let Russia Dominate the Strategic Concept

Jordan Becker, Douglas Lute, and Simon Smith

The Most Dangerous Phase for Ukraine?

Michael Kofman and Ryan Evans

Helping India Replace Russia in the Value Arms Market

Vasabjit Banerjee and Benjamin Tkach

Intelligence and the War in Ukraine: Part 2

Neveen Shaaban Abdalla, Philip H. J. Davies, Kristian Gustafson, Dan Lomas, and Steven Wagner

Intelligence and the War in Ukraine: Part 1

Neveen Shaaban Abdalla, Philip H. J. Davies, Kristian Gustafson, Dan Lomas, and Steven Wagner

After Ukraine, Where Will India Buy Its Weapons?

Vasabjit Banerjee and Benjamin Tkach

The View of Ukraine from Taiwan: Get Real About Territorial Defense

Adm. (Ret.) Lee Hsi-Min and Michael A. Hunzeker

Why Russian Cyber Dogs Have Mostly Failed to Bark

Jelena Vićić and Rupal N. Mehta

Making Coercion Work Against Russia  

Jane Vaynman and Tristan A. Volpe

Solving the Russia Riddle

Zack Cooper, Melanie Marlowe, and Christopher Preble

Time to Rethink U.S. Policy Toward Putin’s Russia?

Zack Cooper, Melanie Marlowe, and Christopher Preble

Navigating Sino-Russian Defense Cooperation

Andrea Kendall-Taylor, David Shullman, and Dan McCormick

How to Stabilize Ukraine Long Term? Securitize Well-Being

Cynthia Buckley, Ralph Clem, and Erik Herron

Horns of a Dilemma: Russia and the Great Power Competition

Phillip Breedlove, Evelyn Farkas, Daniel Fried, and Mary Neuburger

Who Lost Russia, Again?

Michael Fitzsimmons

Nuts and Bolts Solutions to Deter a Resurgent Russia

R. Reed Anderson, Patrick J. Ellis, Antonio M. Paz, Kyle A. Reed, Lendy Renegar, and John Vaughan

Friends if We Must: Russia and China in the Arctic

Stephanie Pezard and Timothy Smith

Point-Counterpoint on Arming Ukraine

Kori Schake and Ryan Evans

What America’s Adversaries and Allies Hope to Gain at the U.N. General Assembly

Holly Dagres, Raymond Kuo, Nicholas Lokker, Richard Gowan, and Jenny Town

The Future of Combat Medicine

John Quinn, Kimberly Elenberg, and Eric Elster

Command and Politics in the War Between Moscow and Kyiv

Dara Massicot, Michael Kofman, and Ryan Evans

War: Watt Is It Good For?

Harry Krejsa and Phoebe Benich

The Next School of War: Educating for Tomorrow’s Battlefield

Brig. Gen. Matthew Tracy and Benjamin Jensen

How the War with Iran is Shaping Key U.S. Relations Beyond the Middle East

Jenny Town, Tanvi Madan, Peter Dickinson, Gesine Weber, and Emma Salisbury

NATO’s Unity on Paper and Fractures Beneath the Surface

Liviu Horovitz, Leonard Schütte, Rick Landgraf, Kori Schake, and Ian Lesser

Trojan Spirit, the Army’s Intelligence Backbone, Needs a Successor

Mike Davenport, Stephen Fogarty, and Gus Taveras

Nuclear Stability in the Age of AI

Paul Scharre and Michael Depp

Why India Will Stick with America

Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan and Rajesh Rajagopalan

What Did the NPT Review Conference Achieve?

Ankit Panda, Kingston Reif, Christopher Ford, Kelsey Davenport, and Astrid Chevreuil

The Road to Space Runs through the Poles

Rebecca Pincus and David Marsh

The F-35 Is a Masterpiece Built for the Wrong War

John G. Ferrari and Dillon Prochnicki

Hungary Turns a New Page

Zsuzsa Csergő, Ian Bond, Maria Snegovaya, Emily Holland, and Ágnes Szunomár

A Closed Strait of Hormuz Risks a Global Food Security Crisis

Morgan D. Bazilian, Gabriel Collins, and Jahara Matisek

Bonus In Brief: Global Reaction to the War in Iran

Kristin Smith Diwan, Roham Alvandi, Nicole Grajewski, Sameer Lalwani, and Jessica C. Liao

Using the 2026 Winter Olympics to Build Soft Power

Sim Sim Wissgott, Robert Kelley, and Susan Brownell

BONUS In Brief: Vibes Out of Munich

Gesine Weber, Ulrike Franke, Matthew Savill, and Monika Sus

Lessons from Past Israeli-Palestinian Talks for Trump’s Negotiators

Aaron David Miller, Janice Stein, Lucy Kurtzer-Ellenbogen, Rachel Brandenburg, and Khaled Elgindy

Gilded Capability: Overinvestment and the Survivability Paradox

Trevor Phillips-Levine, Andrew Tenbusch, and Walker Mills

Deep Learning From Operation Sindoor: Five Takeaways From a Four-Day War

Sameer Lalwani, Shailender Arya, and David Brostoff

Trump, Uncertainty, and China’s Anti-Alliance Strategy

Olivia Cheung, Luis Simón, and Giulia Tercovich

Key Elements of the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act

Matt Vallone, Steven Wills, Katherine Kuzminski, and Max Bergmann

U.S. Foreign Policy Surprises in 2025

Emma Ashford, Britta Crandall, H. A. Hellyer, Oriana Skylar Mastro, and Joshua Shifrinson

Underrated Global Risks in 2026

Patrick Cronin, Ulrike Franke, and Mathew Burrows

We Might Regret Golden Dome’s Greatest Ambition

Andrew Facini and Mallory Stewart

Black Sea Regional Outlook for 2026

Yevgeniya Gaber, Alper Coşkun, Natia Gamkrelidze, Maia Otarashvili, and Iulia-Sabina Joja

America First, Europe Fourth

Leonard A. Schütte

The Case for Treating Drones as Ammunition

Zachary Griffiths and Jeff Ivas

Is Europe Too Soft to Fight?

Florence Gaub and Roderick Parkes

How Food Feeds Strategic Competition

Rosella Cappella Zielinski and Justin Gilpin

How Often Overlooked Non-State Actors Are Using Drones

Richard Horsey, R. Evan Ellis, Tricia Bacon, and Nathaniel Powell

A Wargame to Take Taiwan, from China’s Perspective

Jeffrey Michaels and Michael John Williams

Tough Tests and Uncertain Outcomes from the U.N. General Assembly

Paul Poast, Zaha Hassan, Ashley Jackson, Ye Myo Hein, and Ellie Geranmayeh

Washington’s Ironclad Commitments Are Rusting in the Indo-Pacific

Gregory H. Winger, Miguel Alberto Gomez, and Lauren Sukin

Lots of Royal Soft Power but Any Concrete Outcomes?

Andrew Mumford, Matthew Savill, Emma Salisbury, Jacob Parakilas, and Hillary Briffa

The Geopolitics of Drone Exports

Pinar Tank, Matthew P. Funaiole, Stacie Pettyjohn, and Nir Reuven

Many Europeans Support Increased National Defense Spending — But How Durable Is That Support?

Emma Salisbury, Niklas Ebert, Tara Varma, Sten Rynning, and Monika Sus

Tanks, Tech, and Tungsten: The Strategic Mineral Alliance the West Needs

Fabian E. Villalobos, Khrystyna Holynska, and Peter Handley

Allied Arsenal: Building Strength Through Shared Production

Trevor Phillips-Levine and Andrew Tenbusch

North Korea’s Deadly Drone Bonanza Is Coming to a Peninsula Near You

Jonathan Corrado, Chelsie Alexandre, and Anton Ponomarenko

What Did the 2025 NATO Summit Achieve?

Sara Moller, Rick Landgraf, Andrew A. Michta, Luis Simon, and Jean-Loup Samaan

The Meaning of Drone-Enabled Infantry Striking Beyond Line of Sight

Antonio Salinas, Mark Askew, and Jason P. LeVay

Steps Toward Golden Dome

Kari A. Bingen, Stephanie Stapleton, Michael O’Hanlon, and Shaan Shaikh

The Value of an Asian Tinder Box

Julian Spencer-Churchill

The Army’s Upcoming Transformation, with Secretary Driscoll and Gen. George

Secretary of the Army Daniel Driscoll, Gen. Randy George, and Ryan Evans

In Brief: Foreign Policy Surprises in Trump’s First 100 Days

Kori Schake, Patricia Kim, Max Bergmann, Alex Vatanka, and Jeremy Shapiro

The Middle East’s AI Warfare Laboratory

Frederic Wehrey and Andrew Bonney

Rearming Europe: Challenges and Constraints

Andrea Gilli, Mauro Gilli, and Niccolò Petrelli

In Brief: What Lessons Is North Korea’s Military Taking from the Russo-Ukrainian War?

Jonathan Corrado, Naoko Aoki, Markus Garlauskas, and Jenny Town

Amplifiers and Dampeners of Cyber Escalation

Jason Healey and Virpratap Vikram Singh

Nuclear Proliferation Will Haunt ‘America First’

Ankit Panda, Vipin Narang, and Pranay Vaddi

The U.S. Army, Artificial Intelligence, and Mission Command

Benjamin Jensen and Maj. Gen. Jake S. Kwon

The End of the World, Again?

Christopher Preble, Zack Cooper, and Melanie Marlowe

Rewind and Reconnoiter: The Navy Should Develop Narco-Submarines

Collin Fox, Walker Mills, and Dylan “Joose” Phillips-Levine

In Brief: How European Leaders are Adapting to New Defense Realities

Matthew Savill, Gesine Weber, Frank Sauer, and Monika Sus

Transforming NATO for the Future Fight

Adm. Pierre Vandier and Ryan Evans

The Coming Wave of Wartime Drone Expertise

Walker Mills, Andrew Tenbusch, and Trevor Phillips-Levine

Rewind and Reconnoiter: Why Women Scare Autocrats

Kathleen J. McInnis and Benjamin Jensen

Exploring the Implications of Precise Mass

Christopher Preble, Zack Cooper, and Melanie Marlowe

Can Europe Fight for Taiwan?

Luis Simón and Toshi Yoshihara

Alliance Networking in Europe and the Indo-Pacific

Lotje Boswinkel, Luis Simón, Alexander Lanoszka, and Hugo Meijer

Rewind and Reconnoiter: Underestimating the Enemy

Caesar Nafrada and Joseph Caddell

Where Do We Go From Here?

Christopher Preble, Zack Cooper, and Melanie Marlowe

In Brief: Evolving Relations Between the European Union and the Gulf Cooperation Council

Silvia Colombo, Courtney Freer, Christian Koch, and Afshin Molavi

In Brief: Biden’s Last Chance at Foreign Policy Moves

Robert Manning, Yun Sun, Jeremy Shapiro, and Zaha Hassan

More NATO in the Arctic Could Free the United States Up to Focus on China

Ryan R. Duffy, Jahara Matisek, Jeremy M. McKenzie, and Chad Pillai

A New National Security Strategy for the Trump Administration

Christopher Preble, Zack Cooper, and Melanie Marlowe

In Brief: Europe Reacts to Trump’s Win

Alexander Lanoszka, Ulrike Franke, Ian Bond, and Gesine Weber

American Defense Planning in the Shadow of Protracted War

Evan Braden Montgomery and Julian Ouellet

In Brief: North Korea’s Critical Allies

Jenny Town, Thomas Shugart, and Maria Snegovaya

In Brief: Europe’s Changing Security Landscape

Ulrike Franke, Thibaud Harrois, Ian Bond, Gesine Weber, Alexander Lanoszka, and Franz-Stefan Gady

American Renewal?

Christopher Preble, Zack Cooper, and Melanie Marlowe

China, Clean Technologies, and National Security

Joshua Busby, Morgan Bazilian, and Emily Holland

In Brief: What to Expect out of the United Nations General Assembly

Mark Kersten, Anjali Dayal, Richard Gowan, and Hugh Dugan

A New Nuclear Age?

Christopher Preble, Zack Cooper, and Melanie Marlowe

China’s Defense Spending: The $700 Billion Distraction

M. Taylor Fravel, George Gilboy, and Eric Heginbotham

In Brief: The Ukrainian Operation Into Kursk

Oxana Shevel, Mark Galeotti, Olga Oliker, Michael A. Reynolds, Sam Bendett, and Vera Mironova

Watching the Watchers: Assessing the Defense Strategy Commission

Christopher Preble, Zack Cooper, and Melanie Marlowe

Without Talent Agility, America May Lose

Jim Perkins and Mike McGinley

Preparing for the Possibility of a Draft Without Panic

Taren Sylvester and Katherine Kuzminski

In Brief: NATO at 75

Anna Dowd, Franz-Stefan Gady, Michal Onderco, and Minna Ålander

Salami Tactics in the Shadow of Major War

Richard Maass and Rick Landgraf

In Brief: What Will Labour’s Victory in the United Kingdom Mean for the World?

Ian Bond, Emma Salisbury, Thibaud Harrois, and Jacob Parakilas

Coming to Terms with the Loss of Turkey

Nick Danforth and Aaron Stein

In Brief: How Close Is Iran to Building A Bomb?

Eric Brewer, Toby Dalton, Naysan Rafati, and Nicole​​​​ Grajewski

Why Is the North Korea Problem So Hard to Solve?

Jonathan Corrado and Rachel Minyoung Lee

Developing an Economic Security Agenda for NATO

Anna M. Dowd and Dominik Jankowski

Iran’s Nuclear Threshold Challenge

Toby Dalton and Ariel (Eli) Levite

In Brief: The Dismissal of Sergei Shoigu

Alexandra Prokopenko, Janis Kluge, Maria Shagina, Dmitry Gorenburg, and Julian Waller

The Case for a Prospective U.S. Cyber Force

Erica Lonergan, Todd Arnold, and Nick Starck

The Time for Europe to Step Up Is Now

Jordan Becker, Douglas Lute, and Andrew Webster

In Brief: The State of European Defense

Gesine Weber, Alexander Lanoszka, and Ulrike Franke

Should Taiwan Attempt to Replicate the Zelensky Playbook?

Jason Vogt, Nina Kollars, and Michael Poznansky