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Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

Secretary Marco Rubio’s announcement following the US-Ukraine negotiations in Saudi Arabia that Ukraine has agreed to accept a 30-day ceasefire and to enter into...

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

The increasingly fraught endgame to the Russia-Ukraine war reflects a larger ongoing debate in the US policy community about who is ultimately responsible for...

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

The Munich Security Conference and the days that followed, including the senior level US-Russia meeting in Saudi Arabia, have witnessed massive turbulence in transatlantic...

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

Since the COVID pandemic, Europe has fallen on hard economic times, and the continent’s absolute and relative economic decline has deepened over the past...

Smart Bombs

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

Article Summary and Key Points: The F-35 stealth fighter has faced criticism for high costs, software glitches, and maintenance challenges, with lifetime program expenses...

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

Summary and Key Points: The USS Long Beach, America’s first nuclear-powered cruiser, marked a transformative era in naval warfare, enabling prolonged operations without refueling....

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

Article Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Air Force’s B-52J modernization program has reached a significant milestone, successfully completing a Critical Design Review of...

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

Summary and Key Points: The United Kingdom recently debated mothballing one of its two Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers due to severe budget constraints and...

Trillions

Trillions - 19FortyFive

Donald Trump was elected in 2016 while using the popular vote and spent the majority of his first term with a negative approval rating....

Trillions - 19FortyFive

The Washington, DC Metro Is Back: Just a few weeks ago, there was a series of stories speculating that the Washington, D.C., housing market...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

Donald Trump’s tariffs, which have been threatened, imposed, and pulled multiple times in the last several weeks, have primarily been directed at the nation’s...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

It’s tax time, which has a lot of Americans rushing to get their taxes done to collect what they hope will be a sizable...

The Embassy

The Embassy

Article Summary and Key Points: Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine isn’t about influence or negotiations—it’s a battle to secure territories formally annexed into Russia’s...

The Embassy

There are a handful of short articles out there now, though most do not go into the level of how the New York Times...

The Embassy

Article Summary: Putin publicly claims openness to a Ukraine ceasefire but continues pressing militarily, imposing surrender-like terms that highlight Russia’s true wartime ambitions. Russia’s...

The Embassy

Now that the United States and Ukraine have agreed on a ceasefire, the ball is, as Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, supposedly in...

Hermit Kingdom

Hermit Kingdom

Will an infusion of fresh troops from North Korea significantly impact the war in Ukraine? Not a lot. However, the deployment of more North...

Hermit Kingdom

It looks like North Korea is building a nuclear-powered submarine. Two days ago, North Korean state media announced the project, showing Supreme Leader Kim...

Hermit Kingdom

To the horror of many South Koreans, Donald Trump has returned to the White House. No one, including perhaps President Trump, knows what he...

Hermit Kingdom

South Korea’s political turmoil of martial law, impeachments, and vitriolic attacks among its political parties has entered its third month—and it’s likely that several...