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A Guide to Becoming an Admiral in the Russian Navy

(War on the Rocks) (Co-authored with Kasey Stricklin) It is widely acknowledged that general and flag officers are important actors. Senior uniformed leaders are, of course, crucial in determining the trajectory of…

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5 things you need to know about last week’s explosion in Russia

(WP Monkey Cage) (Co-authored with Michael Kofman) An Aug. 8 accident at Russia’s Nonoksa missile testing facility left seven dead and caused a brief radiation spike in a nearby town. What went wrong Vague and potentially…

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How Much Did Orthodox Church Help Revive Russia’s Military and Nuclear Complex? [Book Review]

(Russia Matters) “Russian Nuclear Orthodoxy,” an important new book by the Israeli scholar Dmitry Adamsky, explores the critical but highly understudied juncture between religion and the military. Focusing on the role…

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Russian Strategic Culture in a Baltic Crisis

(Russian Military Reform | Marshall Center) As part of a collaborative project on Russian strategic culture and leadership decision-making, organized by the Marshall Center with support from the Russia Strategy Initiative, I have…

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Russia’s Strategy in Southeast Asia

To great fanfare, in May 2016, Russia hosted the third ASEAN-Russia Summit at the Black Sea resort of Sochi. Commemorating the 20th anniversary of Russia’s acceptance as an ASEAN dialog…

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Strategic Analysis December 2018: The Kerch Strait skirmish: a Law of the Sea perspective

(Hybrid Co) “The November 25 naval skirmish between Russian and Ukrainian forces in the Kerch Strait highlighted the fraught legal status of the strait and the Azov Sea, a status that…

Circumstances Have Changed Since 1991, but Russia’s Core Foreign Policy Goals Have Not

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Since the Ukraine crisis, the dominant Western perspective on Russian foreign policy has come to emphasize its increasingly confrontational, even revanchist, nature. Experts have focused on…

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Russia and Ukraine had a short naval battle. Here’s what you need to know

(Monkey Cage) (Co-authored with Michael Kofman) The Nov. 25 skirmish between Russian Border Guard and Ukrainian navy ships in the Kerch Strait has escalated tensions not just between the two countries, but also between…

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NATO’s Trident Juncture Exercise as a Deterrence Signal to Russia

(Russia Matters) This week, NATO forces are engaged in the largest military exercise the alliance has organized since the end of the Cold War and the first major Western exercise in…

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Russian views on U.S. plans to withdraw from the INF Treaty

(WP) Despite Russian urgings, national security adviser John Bolton is insisting that the United States will withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF). The treaty prohibits all short-range and intermediate-range ground-launched missiles,…

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A Guide to Becoming an Admiral in the Russian Navy

5 things you need to know about last week’s explosion in Russia

How Much Did Orthodox Church Help Revive Russia’s Military and Nuclear Complex? [Book Review]

Russian Strategic Culture in a Baltic Crisis

Russia’s Strategy in Southeast Asia

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Circumstances Have Changed Since 1991, but Russia’s Core Foreign Policy Goals Have Not

Russia and Ukraine had a short naval battle. Here’s what you need to know

NATO’s Trident Juncture Exercise as a Deterrence Signal to Russia

Russian views on U.S. plans to withdraw from the INF Treaty