Venezuela, Russia and the Varieties of Hybrid War
For Clausewitz war was a chameleon. And what we now call hybrid war is inherently a…
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A recent Fox News piece reminded us that there has been clear collusion to derail a…
Read More »Re-Shaping Crisis Management
The strategic shift is a crucial one for the liberal democracies. That strategic shift is from…
Read More »Norway and the Strategic Shift
Last year, I visited Norway and had a chance to discuss with senior officials their thinking…
Read More »Russia and the Arctic
Most scholars writing about the Arctic’s place in world politics have contended that despite the mounting…
Read More »Rethinking the Intelligence Community in the Golden Age of Open Source Intelligence
Competition between public and controlled information is as old as life. From the beginning of time,…
Read More »The Russian Challenge to Northern Europe
Denmark is a small country, but an important player in the NATO Alliance and part of…
Read More »Russia, Crimea and Ukraine: A 2014 Inflection Point in Shaping a New Strategic Era
Russian actions in 2014 set in motion a new strategic era of peer-to-peer conflict. At the…
Read More »High End Conflict, Allies and Working the Way Ahead
High intensity warfare at the highest end is total war. It is about a test of…
Read More »The Nuclear Threshold: Rethinking the Challenge
Necessity and proportionality are central concepts behind legitimate use of force in international law from the…
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