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How HIMARS and Sanctions are Choking Russia’s Weapons Trade
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Moscow will go to great lengths to protect its military exports, even while under pressure to replace equipment destroyed in Ukraine. "We're in a state right now where it's mo...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russia is Training Drone Hobbyists to Fight in Ukraine
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It’s not clear how “coordinated work in combat crews” differs from combat. And that blurs the line between civilians and troops and creates a new type of combatant, said Sam B...
By Samuel Bendett
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How electronic warfare is reshaping the war between Russia and Ukraine
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Electronic warfare systems have been used by both Russia and Ukraine in recent months to locate, disrupt and jam electronic and GPS signals from weapons and drones. The system...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russia and Iran Threats Put Missile Defense Back on the Agenda
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In much of the West, Putin’s rhetoric on missile defense is dismissed as paranoia. According to Burns, “For many in Russia, especially in Putin’s orbit of security and intelli...
By Jim Townsend
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Ukraine turning point? The offensive against Russia that may decide the war
We don’t know exactly when this offensive will begin, and the people who do know have no incentive to tell us. But it’s likely to be sooner rather than later, perhaps in a mat...
By Chris Dougherty & Jeffrey Edmonds
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War With Russia Enters New Phase as Ukraine Readies Southern Counterblow
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Chris Dougherty, a former U.S. Defense Department strategist now at the Center for a New American Security, said that, despite all the materiel the West has given to Ukraine, ...
By Chris Dougherty
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The Fight to Survive Russia's Onslaught in Eastern Ukraine
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Russia’s war in Ukraine is not the same conflict that it was earlier this spring. The Russian Army’s initial campaign, in February and March, was a three-front invasion with l...
By Michael Kofman
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U.S. Aims to Cripple Russian Oil Industry, Officials Say
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Russian oil exports increased in April, and rising prices mean that Russia has earned 50 percent more in revenues this year compared to the same period in 2021, according to a...
By Maria Snegovaya & Edward Fishman
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Nasty, Repressive, Aggressive -- Yes. But Is Russia Fascist? Experts Say 'No.'
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Among the characteristics Putin's Russia manifests that mirror fascism are historical revanchism and the embrace of hypermasculine authority -- "the macho cult of Putin" -- sa...
By Maria Snegovaya
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The Russian military's heavy losses from Ukraine in charts
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For Jeffrey Edmonds, a former US Army tanker and CIA military analyst, the US intelligence estimate of 7,000 losses seems too high. But he said even more conservative guesses ...
By Jeffrey Edmonds
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Reported Detention of Russian Spy Boss Shows Tension Over Stalled Ukraine Invasion, U.S. Officials Say
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“It is hard to imagine some senior intelligence person talking with Putin and not telling Putin what he wants to hear, especially if it is a belief that is deeply held, like P...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Jeffrey Edmonds
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Oil, weapons and realpolitik: Why some countries want to stay on friendly terms with Russia
Russia supplies about 60 percent of the weapons and equipment for India’s military, the cornerstone of a decades-long friendly relationship between Moscow and Delhi. Experts s...
By Lisa Curtis
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For the U.S., a Tenuous Balance in Confronting Russia
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Some American officials assert that as a matter of international law, the provision of weaponry and intelligence to the Ukrainian Army has made the United States a cobelligere...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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The socialite daughter of Putin's spokesman complains US sanctions are 'unfair' but thinks they won't make a difference
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Maria Snegovaya, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, said the main goal of US sanctions at this point is not so much to bring about that elite ...
By Maria Snegovaya
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Drones flying into NATO territory have forced the alliance to decide how to respond — if at all — to incidents inside its borders
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Jeff Edmonds, a senior analyst at the Center for a New American Security and former director for Russia on the National Security Council, said the risk to NATO territory will ...
By Jeffrey Edmonds
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Ukraine will not halt US shift to Indo-Pacific
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The war in Ukraine poses a more immediate threat, however, and some experts now insist that the West must adjust its thinking accordingly. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenb...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Ukraine war: Biden will tell Xi any support of Russia comes with ‘costs’, top US diplomat says
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US President Joe Biden plans to tell his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping that he will “impose costs” for any support Beijing provides to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Washingto...
By Jacob Stokes
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Democrats worry Zelensky offered GOP key talking point
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Others in the GOP say it’s unlikely that Republicans delve into that territory. “One never ceases to be amazed at the imagination of attack ads, but I doubt Zelensky’s clario...
By Richard Fontaine
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The humanitarian crisis unfolding in Ukraine’s cities
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Such shortages, as the war enters its third week, reflect a burgeoning humanitarian crisis — one that could grow far worse for Ukrainians who now have little prospect of escap...
By Margarita "Rita" Konaev
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U.S. Casts a Global Net to Stop Shipments to Russia
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Emily Kilcrease, director of the Energy, Economics and Security Program at the Center for a New American Security, said that the level of allied cooperation in forging the exp...
By Emily Kilcrease
