The Timeline to the War in Ukraine, 2022: The Migrant Battering Ram, Fall 2021
The migrant pressures on Europe have been a key policy tool for Putin for some time.…
Read More »The Timeline to the War in Ukraine, 2022: Putin’s Valdai Discussion Club, October 2021
The 18th annual meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club, held in Sochi, saw President Putin give…
Read More »The Threat from the East: Central-Eastern European Voices Finally Heard
Central and Eastern Europe has lived in Russia’s shadow for years – even in the 1990s,…
Read More »The Timeline to the War in Ukraine, 2022: The Biden Administration Embraces Ukraine But Without a Strategic Plan
In a piece in The Wall Street Journal published on March 4, 2022 by Tunku Varadarajan,…
Read More »Recovering the U.S. Military’s Russian Expertise
When I went to Columbia University for my PhD starting in 1969, one of the nation’s…
Read More »The Timeline to the War in Ukraine, 2022: AUKUS and Fractioning NATO
On September 15, 2021, President Biden hosted a video event announcing an agreement with Australia to…
Read More »RAAF C-17A Flies to Poland and Delivers Ukrainian Aid
A Royal Australian Air Force Boeing C-17A Globemaster III transport delivered a load of medical and lethal…
Read More »The Timeline to the War in Ukraine, 2022: The Impact of the Biden Administration’s Fall, 2021
By July the Russians had stated their policy in dealing with the West and Putin’s aspiration…
Read More »The U.S. and Pakistan: Shaping a Way Ahead
Shortly after the U.S. evacuated Afghanistan in August 2021, Pakistan’s prime minister, Imran Khan, noted, “America…
Read More »The Able Archers: A Novel which Takes Us Back to the 1983 Nuclear Crisis
Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has taken this topic from the domain of the abstract to…
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