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A Worrying Military Build-up in the Western Balkans?
Blerim Vela
Rewind and Reconnoiter: War Won’t Be Coming Back to the Balkans with Dimitar Bechev
Dimitar Bechev
Only Democracy Can Bring Stability to the Balkans
Maja Bjelos
War Won’t Be Coming Back to the Balkans
Dimitar Bechev
What’s Behind the Arms Buildup in the Balkans
Vuk Vuksanovic
and
Marija Ignjatijevic
Keep an Eye on the Balkans
Shane Mason
Why the West Won’t Do More in the Balkans
Gorana Grgić
Surveying China’s Digital Silk Road in the Western Balkans
Stefan Vladisavljev
Biden and the Western Balkans
Vuk Vuksanovic
The European Union’s Shot at Redemption in the Balkans
Austin Doehler
How an Obscure National Security Council Staffer Changed the Balkans
John Gans
The Guy Behind the Guy: Samuel Nelson Drew and Peace-Building in the Balkans
John Gans
Dropping the Ball in the Western Balkans: Can the West Pick It Up Again?
Gorana Grgić
Does the West Have a Vision for the Western Balkans?
Michael Carpenter
and
Mieczysław P. Boduszyński
The Unexpected Regional Player in the Balkans: China
Vuk Vuksanovic
The Mecca Pact’s Credibility Gap
Doga Eralp
What America Learned About Democracy When It Gained Stealth
T. Nelson Collier
The Octane Revolution: How Jimmy Doolittle Catalyzed a Wartime Industry
Aidan Poling
How Orbán’s Fall Changed Serbia’s Political Future
Liudmila Listrovaya
The Importance of the Invasion of Sicily
Steven T. Barry
Closing the Gap? Italy Sets New Rules for Its First National Security Strategy Amidst Old Obstacles
Lorenzo Termine
,
Gabriele Natalizia
, and
Laura Donnini
A Blank Check for Israel and the War with Iran
Farah Jan
What Would Have Happened If the Green Berets Helped Ukraine?
Brian Petit
From Restraint to Readiness? Germany Considers Conscription
Michael F. Harsch
British Grand Strategy Without America
Emma Salisbury
If America Abandons Europe, Will the Continent Fragment or Unify?
Ali Mammadov
Rethinking Rome’s “Most Reluctant” Emperor
Lindsay Powell
Modernizing Military Decision-Making: Transforming European Command
Bryan Quinn
,
Bobby Sickler
, and
David Wiltse
Thinking Through Deception on the Electromagnetic Spectrum
Michael Posey
and
David Zesinger
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
Power Broker — How Erdoğan Balances Serbs and Albanians
Vuk Vuksanovic
Mid-Afternoon Map: Nostalgia for the Near East
Nick Danforth
NATO Missed a Chance to Transform Itself
Max Bergmann
Mid-Afternoon Map: The Collective Punishment Club
Nick Danforth
Is Italy Needed in the Indo-Pacific?
Matteo Mazziotti di Celso
The Future of Algorithmic Warfare Part IV: Promise Fulfilled
Scott Cuomo
,
Benjamin Jensen
, and
Christopher Whyte
U.S. Special Operations and the Shadowy Promise of Irregular Campaigns
Brian Petit
In Brief: Tensions Between Serbia and Kosovo
Gorana Grgić
,
Dimitar Bechev
,
Maja Bjelos
, and
Helena Ivanov
Mid-Afternoon Map: Mediterranean Food Map
Nick Danforth
Logistics Interdiction for Taiwan Unification Campaigns
Jacob Maywald
,
Benjamin Hazen
,
Edward Salo
, and
Michael Hugos
Italy’s New Look
Leonardo Palma
The Battle of Hostomel Airport: A Key Moment in Russia’s Defeat in Kyiv
Liam Collins
,
Michael Kofman
, and
John Spencer
The Future of Algorithmic Warfare: Fragmented Development
Benjamin Jensen
,
Christopher Whyte
, and
Scott Cuomo
The Dead Cannot Go Home: Memory Diplomacy and the American Battle Monuments Commission at 100
Sam Edwards
In Brief: Clashes in Kosovo
WOTR Staff
Turkey’s Elections and Foreign Policy Options
Onur İşçi
and
Samuel J. Hirst
Money Isn’t Enough: Getting Serious About Precision Munitions
Tyler Hacker
Mid-Afternoon Map: Three Maps That Explain The Map
Nick Danforth
Mind the Middle Powers
Tim Sweijs
and
Michael J. Mazarr
Japan’s Shift to War Footing
Zack Cooper
and
Eric Sayers
Ukraine and the New Two War Construct
Raphael S. Cohen
The 2022 War On The Rocks Holiday Reading List
WOTR Staff
The Return of Cartography
Nick Danforth
Send NATO Troops to Help Stabilize Bosnia and Herzegovina
Leon Hartwell
,
Hikmet Karčić
, and
Josephine Mintel
“Win the War Before the War?”: A French Perspective on Cognitive Warfare
David Pappalardo
Assess Russia’s Cyber Performance Without Repeating Its Past Mistakes
Gavin Wilde
Will Finland and Sweden Joining NATO Deepen the Alliance’s Problems?
Zachary Selden
From Iraq to Ukraine: A New Perspective on the Russian-Western Confrontation
Samuel Helfont
Putin Loses No Matter How This Plays Out, But We Might Too
Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer
Can Ukrainian Resistance Foil a Russian Victory?
Brian Petit
Embrace the Arms Race in Asia
Julian Spencer-Churchill
Europe’s Energy Security Problem Leaves it in the Cold
Emily Holland
More Deferential but Also More Political: How Americans’ Views of the Military Have Changed Over 20 Years
Ronald R. Krebs
and
Robert Ralston
Ending America’s Diplomacy-Last Syria Policy
Adham Sahloul
Reconsidering U.S. Decision-Making Within NATO After the Fall of Kabul
Andrew Radin
An Urgent NATO Priority: Preparing to Protect Civilians
Victoria Holt
and
Marla Keenan
NATO Should Finally Take its Values Seriously
Rachel Ellehuus
and
Pierre Morcos
The State Stays Dark: Mafia Politics Return to Turkey
Ryan Gingeras
Autonomy, Cacophony, or Coherence? The Future of European Defense
Robert Dalsjö
and
Michael Jonsson
Metus Hostilis: Sallust, American Grand Strategy, and the Disciplining Effects of Peer Competition with China
Iskander Rehman
When Women Commit War Crimes
Jessica Trisko Darden
and
Izabela Steflja
NATO in the Arctic: Keep Its Role Limited, For Now
David Auerswald
NATO’s Never-Ending Struggle for Relevance
James Goldgeier
and
Garret Martin
Tensions at the U.N. Security Council
Richard Gowan
Belgrade’s New Game: Scapegoating Russia and Courting Europe
Vuk Vuksanovic
Brent Scowcroft and American Military Intervention
Philip Zelikow
Why NATO Should Adopt a Tactical Readiness Initiative
Josh Campbell
NATO Needs a Coherent Approach to Defending its Eastern Flank
Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Ben Hodges
,
Janusz Bugajski
,
Ray Wojcik
, and
Carsten Schmiedl
America’s Destabilizing Involvement in Serbia-Kosovo Talks
Gorana Grgić
Strategic Fail: Partnering with Turkey to Counter Iran Would Misread the Region
Blaise Misztal
From Non-Interference to Wolf Warrior: Chinese Foreign Internal Defense
Jimmy Zhang
Don’t Forget the Historical Context of Russo-Turkish Competition
Jeffrey Mankoff
Germany, Wilsonianism, and the Return of Realpolitik
Dominik Wullers
European Security in Crisis: What to Expect if the United States Withdraws from NATO
Liana Fix
and
Bastian Giegerich
Turkey and Russia: A Remarkable Rapprochement
Michael A. Reynolds
Light Touch, Tight Grip: China’s Influence and the Corrosion of Serbian Democracy
Vuk Vuksanovic
The Myth of American Military Dominance
Justin Lynch
Recalling the Other “Supreme” Allied Operation of 1944
Cameron Zinsou
Bombs over Belgrade: An Underrated Sino-American Anniversary
Tom Fox
The Problems of a Militarized Foreign Policy for America’s Premier Intelligence Agency
David Oakley
The Kosovo War in Retrospect
James Goldgeier
and
Gorana Grgić
It Is Long Past Time to Stop Expanding NATO
Matthew Cancian
and
Mark Cancian
Russia’s Soft Strategy to Hostile Measures in Europe
Andrew Radin
and
Raphael S. Cohen
When the China Dream and the European Dream Collide
Theresa Fallon
George H.W. Bush: American Radical
Joshua Shifrinson
The Death of Precision in Warfare?
Paul Barnes
and
Alexandra Stickings
Riding the Tiger: How Trump Enables Right-Wing Extremism
Stephen Tankel
Save the U.S. Army’s Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute: An Open Letter
WOTR Staff
Crisis and Conviction: U.S. Grand Strategy in Trump’s Second Term
Patrick Porter
Russia’s Strategy in the Black Sea Basin
Nikolas Gvosdev
How America’s Myopic Focus on Iran Hinders Its Russia Policy
Aaron Stein
Authoritarian Nostalgia Among Iraqi Youth: Roots and Repercussions
Marsin Alshamary
Denmark in NATO: Paying for Protection, Bleeding for Prestige
Gary Schaub, Jr.
and
André Ken Jakobsson
The Year of the Gray Wolf: The Rise of Turkey’s New Ultranationalism
Burak Kadercan
Colombia’s Problematic Peace Accord: Time to Swallow Some Frogs
Colette Rausch
and
Thomas Stevenson
What’s So Disordered About Your World Order?
Nick Danforth
The Dangerous Rise of Kinetic Diplomacy
Monica Duffy Toft
Forecasting the Future of Warfare
Robert H. Scales
Death of a General: What Shaban Nasiri Reveals About Iran’s Secretive Qods Force
Amir Toumaj
Combating the Spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction: A Success Story for the U.S.-E.U. Partnership
Joelle Jenny
and
Simon Limage
Must We Mean What We Say? Making Sense of the Nuclear Posture Review
Francis J. Gavin
Less Whole, Less Free, Less at Peace: Whither America’s Strategy for a Post-Cold War Europe?
James Goldgeier
Meet France’s War Philosophers
Michael Shurkin
In Between Security Arrangements: The Trojan Horse of Military Intermarium
Jacek Saryusz-Wolski
The Missing Middle: Defense Financing for Middle-Income Democracies
Max Bergmann
and
Vikram J. Singh
Germany’s Election Won’t Stop the Slide in Relations with Turkey
Lisa Sawyer Samp
and
Jeff Rathke
Ukraine’s Volunteer Militias May Have Saved the Country, But Now They Threaten It
Kimberly Marten
and
Olga Oliker
How to Solve Ukraine’s Security Dilemma? The Idea of an Intermarium Coalition in East-Central Europe
Kostiantyn Fedorenko
and
Andreas Umland
The Chain of Command Problem in Central and Eastern Europe
Thomas-Durell Young
Wonder and Worry in an Age of Distraction: Notes on American Exceptionalism for My Young Friends
Francis J. Gavin
Don’t Believe the Hype About European Defense
Luis Simón
Much Ado About Montenegro
Benjamin Denison
and
Matthew Fay
Read Any Good Books Lately? Adm. Jim Stavridis (ret.) Has Some Suggestions
Christopher Nelson
Penny Wise, Pound Foolish: Trump’s Misguided Views of European Defense Spending
Richard Sokolsky
and
Gordon Adams
Maladjusted, Part II: How the U.S. Air Force Went from Eagle to Chicken
Mike Pietrucha
Intel and Attributing Bad Acts: The United States Needs to do Better
Ralph S. Clem
Trump, Europe, and the Quest to Save NATO
Colin Dueck
The Arc of History is Long, But it Bends Toward Bombing Assad
Nick Danforth
The Ghosts of Soviets Past: Unearthing the Memory of Occupation in Estonia
Adam Maisel
and
Will DuVal
The Phantom Menace: When Threat Capabilities Are Made Up
Mike Pietrucha
New Rules for U.S. Military Intervention
Christopher Preble
Washington’s Sunni Myth and the Middle East Undone
Cyrus Malik
South Sudan and the Perils of America’s Peacekeeping Policy
David H. Ucko
Lessons on History and Statecraft from a Rocky Mountain Seminar
Justin Key Canfil
,
Lauren Dickey
,
A. Bradley Potter
, and
Laura Weis
If I Were President…
Tim Kane
Beyond the Power of the Coin: The Three Currencies of Military Innovation
Brad DeWees
and
Enrique Oti
Chilcot and a Very British History of Dubious Military Decisions
Huw J. Davies
Out of Area Ops Are Out: Reassessing the NATO Mission
Brad Stapleton
NATO’s Open Door Leads to an Identity Crisis
Emma Ashford
Step on the Gas: Montenegro’s Road to NATO Membership
Stanley R. Sloan
Open Letter to President Obama and the U.S. Congress Urging Quick Action on Montenegro’s Entry into NATO
WOTR Staff
What Next for the Army? In Defense of Proponency by Componency
Michael N. Clancy
and
Zac Delwiche
Beyond Syria and Iraq, the Islamic State’s HR Files Illuminate Dangerous Trends
Clint Watts
Exceptionalism or Expansionism? The American Dream Abroad
Sean Kay
Out of Time: Do Not Revive the F-22
Mike Benitez
Counterterrorism or Repression? China Takes on Uighur Militants
Lauren Dickey
Turkish Foreign Policy is Waking Up from the Liberal Dream
Selim Koru
Radically Rethinking NATO and the Future of European Security
Job C. Henning
and
Douglas A. Ollivant
Combing Through an Invaluable Resource on the People’s Liberation Army
Peter Mattis
Preventing a Middle Eastern Gordian Knot
Jim Jeffrey
and
Soner Cagaptay
The Islamic State’s Plans for Turkey
Hilmi Demir
and
Selim Koru
The Gulf War’s Anniversary: Reflections on 25 Years of U.S. Military Involvement in the Middle East
Jeffrey D. McCausland
Southern France’s Bloody Past: Six Lessons from a Forgotten Crusade
Iskander Rehman
The Uneasy Relationship Between Policy and History
James Graham Wilson
A Stubborn Optimist’s 2016 Forecast of World Affairs
Joshua Walker
Ankara’s Hidden Hand: Turkish Covert Ops Then and Now
Egemen Bezci
This is How Europe Needs to Stand up to Terrorism
Martin Michelot
and
Benjamin Haddad
Dayton’s Lessons for Syria
Stefano Recchia
Let’s Talk About Terrorism and Migration
Ryan Greer
America’s Victory Disease Has Left it Dangerously Deluded
Mike Pietrucha
A New Plan for the United States in Syria
Ben Jonsson
Yes, Sometimes There Are Military Solutions to Political Problems
Brendan Gallagher
The Airpower Partisans Get it Wrong Again
Kyle Staron
In Praise of Difficult Allies
Kori Schake
Airpower May Not Win Wars, But it Sure Doesn’t Lose Them
Mike Pietrucha
and
Jeremy Renken
Does the Legality of Nuclear War Matter?
Butch Bracknell
The Legacy of Srebrenica, America’s Generals, and Multilateral Humanitarian Intervention
Stefano Recchia
The Legacy of Srebrenica, America’s Generals, and Multilateral Humanitarian Intervention
Stefano Recchia
Russia, Greece, and the EU: A Putin-shaped Shark in the Mediterranean?
Tim Foxley
Grand Theft Autocracy
Aaron Mannes
Our Unrealistic Foreign Policy
Christopher Preble
What Obama Gets Right and Wrong on Grand Strategy
Ionut Popescu
(W)Archives: Art and The Glamor of War in the Good Old Days
Nick Danforth
Bordering on Conflict: Real Talk on Borders, War, and States
Benjamin Denison
Not the Map You’re Looking For: Nations and Borders Are Always Messy
Nick Danforth
A Deepening Defense Relationship on India’s Republic Day
Stephen Tankel
Advice for France in its “War on Terror”
Thomas Lynch
,
Cindy Storer
,
Mark Stout
,
Stephen Tankel
, and
Clint Watts
The War on the Rocks 2014 Holiday Reading List
WOTR Staff
A Look Back at the WWII Crimean Campaign
Jacob Kipp
Comprehensively Limited: NATO’s Disconnected Approach to Security
Ian Ralby
Between Counterinsurgency and Genocide
Richard Outzen
The “No Boots on the Ground” Mantra is Strategic Foolishness
Richard L. Russell
Observations on the Long War
Conrad Crane
Are there parallels between 1914 and the Ukrainian Crisis?
Daniel Grandet
Remarks by President Obama to the People of Estonia
Barack Obama
Crescent Over The Thames
Jonathan Bronitsky
Raising an Army: Ten Rules
Sean McFate
Planning for the Last Peace?
BJ Armstrong
Inevitable Conflict in the South China Sea?
Claude Berube
5 Questions with Kim Dozier on Resilience and Hash Brownies
Ryan Evans
Crimea and Lessons for the Korean Peninsula
Robert Collins
Avoiding the Guns of April
David Wise
How to Show Strength, Stabilize the Ukraine Crisis, and Revitalize NATO
Ryan Evans
NATO Revived? Not So Fast
Sean Kay
A Second Look at the Powell Doctrine
Frank Hoffman
Al-Qaeda is alive and well in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Michael Kugelman
Tuppence for your COIN Thoughts
Frank Hoffman
The Pentagon is Not Adapting
Robert Haddick
How To Improve U.S. National Security Strategies
John Collins
Rebalancing toward Asia and Protecting U.S. Interests: The Devil is in the Details
John Amble
A Preemptive Strike on North Korea?
David Maxwell
Contrasting Clausewitz and Contemporary Conflict
Frank Hoffman
Contributors
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