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The Montreux Paradox: How a Ukraine Ceasefire Could Set the Stage for Escalation in the Black Sea
Russia has been prevented from reinforcing its navy in the Black Sea by a near-antique international convention and some very ...
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Russia and China in Central Asia
Dr. Janko Šćepanović of the Shanghai International Studies University (SISU) wrote “The Sheriff and the Banker: Russia and ...
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Military Revolutions from the Spanish Tercio to First-Person View Drones
By some estimates, 60 to 70 percent of casualties in Ukraine now come from drones — cheap, disposable first-person view ...
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It’s Not Enough for France to Be Right About Strategic Autonomy
I have come to talk to you about Europe. ‘Again,’ some might exclaim.” These were the words with which French President ...
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A Taipei Airlift: Lessons from Berlin
Joint Sword exercises, and more recent Strait Thunder-2025A exercise, awakened the public psyche to the reality that the ...
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Anchoring Peace: The Battle of Lake Champlain, the End of the War of 1812, and How Ships That Didn’t Sail Shaped America’s Destiny
This is part of a new series of essays entitled “Battle Studies,” which seeks, through the study of military history, to ...
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Rethinking Rome’s “Most Reluctant” Emperor
In AD 9, three Roman legions suffered a massacre in a region of Germania undergoing pacification. In the years that followed several attempts were made to capture or kill the German mastermind, ...
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