How Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will play out remains unclear. But it’s already been a geopolitical game-changer—in Europe and beyond. Russia’s aggression has jolted Europe out of its post–Cold War complacency. Lulled by decades of …
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Russia’s terrible invasion of Ukraine is looming over the Indo-Pacific with its lessons for Taiwan’s relations with China. Some of those lessons are important reality checks. Assumptions about a nominally superior military force have been …
It has become commonplace for commentators on Russia’s war in Ukraine to assert that Ukraine is winning the information war. Indeed, Russia’s information operations seemed clumsy, and in some cases completely absent, in the early …
Sea state The US Navy is proposing to decommission 24 ships in the coming fiscal year to save US$3.6 billion. The plan—which involves multiple vessels, including nine Freedom-class littoral combat ships, some of which are …
When the Russian military defeated the Ukrainians comprehensively in 2014 to seize the Donbas region, there seemed little doubt that the balance of power was moving more in Russia’s favour. But in 2022, President Volodymyr …