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Mar 20, 2025 · It turns out Europe’s favorite American import isn’t fast food or Netflix. It’s missiles, and Europe needs to start making its own. Eight weeks into the second Trump administration, European leaders are finally aware that they need to take ownership of the continent’s conventional security. Current discussions grappling with the question of what that looks like in practice evoke long ...

Mar 10, 2025 · It is no coincidence that Prime Minister Donald Tusk of Poland openly raised the possibility that his country may need to arm itself with nuclear weapons. Both major parties in South Korea are doing the same. This is a response to what is happening in Washington, where the Trump administration is renovating America’s post-World War II grand strategy, tossing aside hard-built alliances, norms ...

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Resistance “Why Ukraine Is Not a Universal Resistance Model,” by Brian Petit (02/2024) “ Roots of the Resistance: Understanding National Identity in Ukraine,” by Aaron Erlich (4/2022) “ Of Roadside Bombs and Drones: Putin’s Looming Insurgency Problem,” by Scott Sweetow (4/2022) “ U.S. Public Perceptions of the Russian-Ukrainian War,” with Dina Smeltz (3/2022)

Jun 12, 2023 · The 2022 National Defense Strategy supported our effort by establishing the need for “a new framework for strategic readiness, enabling a more comprehensive, data-driven assessment and reporting of readiness to ensure greater alignment with [National Defense Strategy] priorities.”We responded to this call by working to define strategic readiness as the ability to build, maintain and ...

Mar 15, 2021 · Gen. Charles Q. Brown, Jr. is the chief of staff of the Air Force. Gen. David H. Berger is the commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps. Image: U.S. Marine Corps (Photo by Sgt. Samuel Ruiz)

Oct 4, 2019 · Fifteen years ago, NATO opened its doors to the Baltic states. In the United States this momentous historical decision is commonly framed either as one of the greatest U.S. foreign policy achievements or an ill-advised move that diluted the alliance by taking on indefensible nations.Meanwhile, Russian contemporary discourse on this matter revolves around broken Western promises not to expand ...

Dec 9, 2022 · For the Department of Defense, achieving this vision begins with demanding that industry connect every current sensor that can support battlespace awareness, making sensor data available to any potential user, at any level of operation.