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A Swedish Compromise Won’t Solve NATO’s Turkey Problem
As two Nordic nations bid to join, Erdogan’s hostage-taking should force the alliance to reckon with a member that is increasingly a security risk.
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Could Ukraine Offer a Template for Better US-Gulf Security Relations?
The outpouring of aid to Kyiv shows that a formal defense alliance is inessential to effective wartime assistance.
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Ending Production of This Warship Is a Mistake
The Navy’s new shipbuilding plan would replace all but three more LPD-17s with a vague plan to get started on a replacement class.
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Stop Making a Big Deal of NATO’s Next Members
Moscow wants to pretend that admitting Sweden and Finland would represent a far larger military change than it actually is.
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The Middle East’s Indifference to Ukraine Is a Warning
What looks like international solidarity against a lawless invasion is something far more transactional and fragile.
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Does the West Want Ukraine to Win or Not?
The relative trickle of advanced weapons to Kyiv suggests Western leaders would be fine with a stalemate.
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Four Ways China Is Growing Its Media Influence in Southeast Asia
Beijing is trying to burnish its image in the region. What if it took aim at America’s instead?
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Four Lessons that Should Upend the Pentagon’s Five-Year Strategy
From the quick consumption of weapons in Ukraine to rising inflation, the current resourcing plan is untenable.
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We Need More Amphibs, and We Need to Buy Them Smarter
Buying amphibious warships one at a time has left us with too few, and little prospect of closing the gap.
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Don’t Overinflate the Pentagon Budget
There are plenty of perennial problems draining the military’s coffers that need attention.
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How to Gauge the Risk of a Nuclear Escalation with Russia
Escalation theories can help NATO policymakers avoid nuclear war—but it is ultimately up to Putin.
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The UN Must Do More for Ukraine—and Itself
Russia’s invasion of a sovereign state is also an attack on the basic principle the international body was founded to prevent.
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The Security Dimension of the Abraham Accords
A year and a half later, a look at what’s changed, what hasn’t, and what still might.
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Sweden, Finland Gave Up Neutrality a Long Time Ago
Their collective-defense rights as EU members suggest a way forward for Ukraine.
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Plan Now for a 'No-Fly Zone' Over Taiwan
Thwarting a Chinese invasion depends on air defense, and that starts with these four steps.
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Ukraine Endgame: Putin’s Bad Options
No matter which one he chooses, the Western response should be the same.
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NATO Should Start Preparing Troops For a Nuclear Battlefield
Our own history can help prepare for the physical and psychological effects should Russia use tactical nukes in the next conflict.
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NATO Will Need a Transition Plan If Finland, Sweden Ask to Join
Putin will threaten the applicant countries and seek to derail the process.
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Give Ukraine Better Air Defenses
If other European capitals want to avoid Kyiv’s fate, they must arm Ukraine with better defenses against Russia’s missile onslaught.
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