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Sep 27, 2023
In February 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin chose to launch a war of conquest against his country’s neighbor, Ukraine. The responsibility for starting that war rests...
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Sep 16, 2023
The United States and China conducted a record $690 billion in combined trade last year. Protectionist policies will result in lower figures for 2023, but China will...
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Sep 12, 2023
The unchallenged assumption among the majority of senior U.S. and NATO officials is that for as long as the war between Russia and Ukraine continues, one of the West’s most...
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Sep 7, 2023
If both Zelensky and Putin decide to continue fighting, there is no rational basis to suggest Ukraine can come out on top.
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Sep 5, 2023
On Friday, the Ukrainian military revealed that the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) had finally broken through the first line of Russia’s vaunted main line of defense in the...
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Aug 23, 2023
It’s not that the F-16 is a bad platform or that it wouldn’t perform ably. It is a solid piece of offensive weaponry. But there are too few of them, too few Ukrainian...
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Aug 18, 2023
This means it is almost certain Ukraine will never win its freedom on the battlefield. To preserve the territory it presently holds, and to prevent the loss of any more land, Kyiv...
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Aug 16, 2023
The cold, hard truth in the war between Russia and Ukraine today is that Ukraine’s last-gasp offensive has failed, and no amount of spin will change the outcome.
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Aug 12, 2023
If China chooses war over Taiwan, there will be no “good” choice for America. But the president and Congress are obligated to make the decision that best preserves...
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Aug 2, 2023
It is not accurate to say Russia will lose the war if its next offensive does not work. Ugly as it has been, the fundamentals favor Moscow.
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Aug 1, 2023
Conventional Western thought tends to demonize Russia and promotes storylines that expose the Russian military’s errors, mistakes, and combat losses in Ukraine.
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Jul 29, 2023
To find the best ways to end the war on terms that most benefit Kyiv, it is crucial to understand the good, the bad, and the ugly of Russia’s conventional capacity.
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Jul 20, 2023
Diplomacy is more important than ever as Kyiv simply doesn’t have the human resources or physical infrastructure to achieve its goals.
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Jul 13, 2023
The harsh truth is that there is no viable path to a military victory for Ukraine, now or in the foreseeable future, regardless of how many planes, tanks, and missiles the West may...
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Jul 8, 2023
I can confirm from personal experience that cluster munitions are indeed quite powerful, but also that by themselves they will not tilt the balance of power in the war towards...
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Jun 28, 2023
Yet as I have written about many times in these pages, ultimately regardless of what does or doesn’t happen with the Wagner Group, the fundamentals of warfare remain decisively...
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Jun 22, 2023
Judging by recent headlines in Western media and quotes from retired U.S. generals, the American public would be forgiven for believing Ukraine’s long-anticipated...
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Jun 5, 2023
Ending the war based on a neutral Ukraine without express security guarantees from NATO would clearly be an unpleasant outcome for Kyiv’s leaders, but it is a viable path...
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May 31, 2023
Some say the key to deterring China from attacking Taiwan is to be more aggressive towards Beijing and provide Taipei with heavy weapons. That is wrong.
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May 26, 2023
From almost the opening days of the Russia-Ukraine War, a running theme among Western analysts has been that the Russian military has badly underperformed and...
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May 12, 2023
Ukraine has a complex reality it must face: U.S., UK, and EU senior leaders have voiced over the past few days strong support for Ukraine and their widely...
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Apr 27, 2023
The United States has no vital national interest in Taiwan that is worth risking our ability to defend our own country.
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Apr 20, 2023
Peace is an outcome in the Russia-Ukraine war that can be selected by multiple parties. It isn’t near as elusive as commonly believed – that is not to say, however, that there is...
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Apr 5, 2023
Ukraine, with a population a quarter the size of Russia’s, is already scraping the bottom of the barrel for mobilization.
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Apr 4, 2023
Ukraine is already critically low of available manpower and having difficulty mobilizing additional troops. It seems very unlikely that, after the losses they would incur conducting...
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Mar 31, 2023
No matter what we feel about the war in Ukraine, we should not risk nuclear escalation that in the worst case could condemn millions of Americans to death. It is time to take the win...
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Mar 8, 2023
There are a number of similarities between what happened in 1943 in Stalingrad and what is happening in early 2023 in Bakhmut.
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Mar 2, 2023
Arrogance prevented our leaders from acknowledging patent reality in Afghanistan, directly laying the foundation for our military failure.
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Jan 25, 2023
Note: This is part I of a three-part series. You can read part I here. Last Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked Western countries for the many...
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Jan 20, 2023
I am a retired officer in the U.S. Army. I can tell you from first hand experience that giving Ukraine tanks won't win a war against Russia.
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Jan 2, 2023
Note: This is part II of a three-part series. You read part I here. You can read part III here. With the onset of winter and the completion of the first two...
Sep 27, 2023In February 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin chose to launch a war of conquest against his country’s neighbor, Ukraine. The responsibility for starting that war rests...
Sep 16, 2023The United States and China conducted a record $690 billion in combined trade last year. Protectionist policies will result in lower figures for 2023, but China will...
Sep 12, 2023The unchallenged assumption among the majority of senior U.S. and NATO officials is that for as long as the war between Russia and Ukraine continues, one of the West’s most...
Sep 7, 2023If both Zelensky and Putin decide to continue fighting, there is no rational basis to suggest Ukraine can come out on top.
Sep 5, 2023On Friday, the Ukrainian military revealed that the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) had finally broken through the first line of Russia’s vaunted main line of defense in the...
Aug 23, 2023It’s not that the F-16 is a bad platform or that it wouldn’t perform ably. It is a solid piece of offensive weaponry. But there are too few of them, too few Ukrainian...
Aug 18, 2023This means it is almost certain Ukraine will never win its freedom on the battlefield. To preserve the territory it presently holds, and to prevent the loss of any more land, Kyiv...
Aug 16, 2023The cold, hard truth in the war between Russia and Ukraine today is that Ukraine’s last-gasp offensive has failed, and no amount of spin will change the outcome.
Aug 2, 2023It is not accurate to say Russia will lose the war if its next offensive does not work. Ugly as it has been, the fundamentals favor Moscow.
Aug 1, 2023Conventional Western thought tends to demonize Russia and promotes storylines that expose the Russian military’s errors, mistakes, and combat losses in Ukraine.
Jul 29, 2023To find the best ways to end the war on terms that most benefit Kyiv, it is crucial to understand the good, the bad, and the ugly of Russia’s conventional capacity.
Jul 20, 2023Diplomacy is more important than ever as Kyiv simply doesn’t have the human resources or physical infrastructure to achieve its goals. 
Jul 13, 2023The harsh truth is that there is no viable path to a military victory for Ukraine, now or in the foreseeable future, regardless of how many planes, tanks, and missiles the West may...
Jul 8, 2023I can confirm from personal experience that cluster munitions are indeed quite powerful, but also that by themselves they will not tilt the balance of power in the war towards...
Jun 22, 2023Judging by recent headlines in Western media and quotes from retired U.S. generals, the American public would be forgiven for believing Ukraine’s long-anticipated...
Jun 5, 2023Ending the war based on a neutral Ukraine without express security guarantees from NATO would clearly be an unpleasant outcome for Kyiv’s leaders, but it is a viable path...
May 31, 2023Some say the key to deterring China from attacking Taiwan is to be more aggressive towards Beijing and provide Taipei with heavy weapons. That is wrong.
May 26, 2023From almost the opening days of the Russia-Ukraine War, a running theme among Western analysts has been that the Russian military has badly underperformed and...
May 12, 2023Ukraine has a complex reality it must face: U.S., UK, and EU senior leaders have voiced over the past few days strong support for Ukraine and their widely...