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U.S. Allies Fret over Who’s Up and Who’s Down in Trump’s Inner Circle
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Top European and allied officials gathered here this weekend are frantically working to interpret who’s up and who’s down in President-elect Donald Trump’s inner circle, and w...
By Jim Townsend
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Russian Nuclear Doctrine Change Does Not Indicate Imminent Attack, Pentagon Says
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The United States sees “no indications” that Russia is prepping for a nuclear attack, the Pentagon said Tuesday, despite the Kremlin’s announcement of a change in nuclear post...
By Jeffrey Edmonds
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With Only Two Months Left, What Are Biden’s Options for Ukraine?
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With little more than two months left in the White House, Joe Biden is running out of time to expedite the delivery of funds and weaponry needed to ensure Ukraine can stay in ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Trump Looks to Woo — and Divide — Putin, Xi and Kim
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President-elect Trump is expected to deploy his trademark mix of belligerent threats and friendly relations with some of the world’s dictators as he seeks to break up the deep...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Ukraine Rolls Out Dozens of AI Systems to Help Its Drones Hit Targets
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KYIV, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Ukraine is using dozens of domestically made AI-augmented systems for its drones to reach targets on the battlefield without being piloted, a senior o...
By Samuel Bendett
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Ukraine Allies Face Limited Options Over North Korea Troops
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Russia’s decision to bring North Korean troops to shore up its war-weary forces has Ukraine’s allies realizing they have few options to respond without escalating the conflict...
By Richard Fontaine
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Why the Pentagon is Betting Big on Long-Range Ukrainian Drones: ‘It Works’
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“[The Ukrainians] have such a vibrant and diverse drone industry that’s doing really, really exciting things, and they’re doing them for really cheap,” Stacie Pettyjohn, direc...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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North Korean Arms More Significant than Troops in Russia’s War Against Ukraine
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Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, got to the point in his presidential address last night: “Another state,” he said, was “joining the war against Ukraine”. He was refe...
By Richard Fontaine
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New CNAS Policy Brief on How the United States and EU Can Strengthen Moldova and Georgia Against Russian Coercion
Press Release
Washington, October 3, 2024 — Today, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) released a new policy brief, Exploiting Russian Weakness: Leaning in to Support the Pro-West...
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U.S. Worries Deepen as Adversaries Team Up to Challenge Dominance
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Moscow, meanwhile, is deepening relationships as it shares more sensitive military knowhow with Beijing, Tehran and Pyongyang in return for their war aid. That process has acc...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Washington and the West Struggle for a Way Forward with Putin’s Russia
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Putin has repeatedly sought to amplify Western fears. He recently spelled out plans to revise Russia’s nuclear doctrine, which currently states that Russia would use nuclear w...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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How Ukraine Could Get Caught in Assassination Attempt Crossfire
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Experts stressed to NatSec Daily that while Routh’s views on the war and time in Ukraine are ripe for a disinformation campaign, they’re more immediately worried about what th...
By Jim Townsend
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Russia Closes In on Eastern City Despite Ukraine’s Successes Elsewhere
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“There’s some evidence that the Russians are actually engaging the last proper defensive line outside of the town outside of Pokrovsk,” said Franz-Stefan Gady, a Vienna-based ...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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As Ukraine Pushes Deeper Into Russia, Moscow Sends Reinforcements
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Military analysts said the attack across the border had involved elements of at least four brigades in a rare example of successful maneuver operations involving support from ...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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‘Axis of Upheaval’ Adds Urgency to Review of UK Defence Spending
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“Russia has been the catalyst of this,” said Richard Fontaine, the co-author of an April paper in Foreign Affairs entitled The Axis of Upheaval. A desperate search for munitio...
By Richard Fontaine
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Ukraine’s F-16 Ambitions Snarled by Language Barrier, Runways and Parts
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“People shouldn’t expect miracles” from the F-16s against Russia, said Jim Townsend, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security. And in terms of vulnerabilities...
By Jim Townsend
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How Can Europe Reduce Its Military Dependency on the United States?
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“European armies are too small to handle even the arms that they’ve got now,” said Jim Townsend, a former U.S. assistant secretary of defense now at the Center for a New Ameri...
By Jim Townsend
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NATO Is Helping Ukraine to Fight—but Not to Win
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It’s an approach that stands in stark contrast to the administration’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war, for which senior administration officials have outlined a dubious but ...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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NATO Summit Becomes High-Stakes Test of Biden’s Fitness
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President Biden’s fitness for office will be put to the test this week during the NATO summit he is hosting in Washington, a high-stakes endurance test that gives the presiden...
By Jim Townsend
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Putin Shows He Can Antagonize the U.S. Far Afield From Ukraine
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Andrea Kendall-Taylor, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, said there was now an increased risk of an unintended escalation, where one side takes an act...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
