Analysis
Thursday, January 11th 2024
Rebeccah L. Heinrichs Hudson Institute, Jan. 2, 2024 “The nuclear posture designed to do this will require more deployed systems than were planned when China wasn’t considered America’s primary challenger.” The most dangerous global security development at the dawn of 2024 is China’s and Russia’s reliance on nuclear weapons to break the U.S.-led order. Russia […]
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Friday, August 18th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
John Ismay NY Times, Aug. 10, 2023 “The ultimate goal for them is to maintain the capacity while making them more effective and actually driving down the costs.” Russia has begun making copies of attack drones it acquired from Iran last year and is using them in combat against Ukrainian forces despite sanctions imposed […]
Dalton Bennett and Mary Ilyushina Washington Post, Aug. 17, 2023 “Alabuga looks to be seeking a drone developmental capability that exceeds Iran’s.” The engineers at a once-bustling industrial hub deep inside Russia were busy planning. The team had been secretly tasked with building a production line that would operate around-the-clock churning out self-detonating drones, […]
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Tuesday, January 24th 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
What Have We Bargained for in Ukraine?: Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, Jan. 7, 2023 Putin, Taboos, and Weapons of Mass Destruction: Michelle Bentley, Current History, Volume 122, Issue 840, January 2023 Study This Picture: Russia’s Thermobaric Weapons Might Be the Worst Way To Die: Brent M. Eastwood, 1945, Jan. 19, 2023 Why Russia’s ‘Terminator’ Vehicle Might Be […]
David Hambling Forbes, Jan. 19, 2023 “A Russian source claimed, with interesting detail, that BMPT had good APS [Active Protection System], had inflicted a remarkable number of casualties and were generally well regarded.” Russia’s new BMPT “Terminator” is a novel type of armored vehicle with multiple weapons and may represent the next stage in […]
Brent M. Eastwood 1945, Jan. 19, 2023 “This makes multiple-launch rocket systems like the TOS-1A even more deadly.] When it comes to thermobaric weapons – the term just sounds ominous. Thermobarics are also described as aerosol weapons or vacuum bombs, terms that likely sound even worse to your ears. To put these deadly concepts to use, […]
Michelle Bentley Current History, Volume 122, Issue 840, January 2023 “Failure to respect WMD norms also undermines future arms control diplomacy. WMDs are regulated by agreements that hold taboos at their core.” Vladimir Putin does not play by the rules. The Russian president has long had a reputation for riding roughshod over the values […]
Thursday, January 19th 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
How Russia’s New Commander in Ukraine Could Change the War: Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, Jan. 17, 2023 — Last week, Russia announced that it was replacing General Sergei Surovikin—who had been put in charge of the war in Ukraine only three months earlier—with another general, Valery Gerasimov. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 15, 2023, Kateryna Stepanenko, […]
Jed Babbin American Spectator, Jan. 16, 2023 “All this stuff about COVID this, parts, supply chain this, I just don’t really care. I need [Standard Missile]-6s delivered on time. I need more [torpedoes] delivered on time.” The Russian war to conquer Ukraine is nearly 11 months old. The U.S. media, which demands instant gratification, […]
Holman W. Jenkins Jr. WSJ, Jan. 6, 2023 “Ending the war would be a blessing to the Russian people and Mr. Putin’s budget, but it would also crystallize Russia’s status as a ramshackle power.” World War II revisionist historian Phillips O’Brien has been fighting the good fight lately on Twitter, upholding the thesis of his 2015 […]
Larry Johnson Sonar 21, Jan. 11, 2023 “Russia, like a World Champion Poker Player, is hiding its cards and only showing Ukraine what it wants them to see. Is Russia going to go all in or will it continue grinding?” The collapse of Ukrainian resistance in Soledar was confirmed even by some of the […]
Ivo H. Daalder and James Goldgeier Foreign Affairs, Jan. 9, 2023 “… there is a pressing need to consider the longer term, and to develop policies toward both Russia and Ukraine based on the emerging reality that this war is likely to continue for quite some time.” Whenever the United States faces a foreign […]
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