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Hale: I’m glad Trump and Putin appear to have agreed on how to disagree on Syria

(VOA) U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke by telephone Tuesday, their first such conversation since Russia condemned a U.S. military attack against Syria last month in response…

Russia’s New Conventional Capability: Implications for Eurasia and Beyond

(PONARS Policy Memo) In late 2015 and early 2016, Russia demonstrated in Syria that it had acquired long-range, precision-guided, conventional-strike capability, the use of which has implications far beyond military utility.…

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Marten: The US airstrike in Syria may actually be an opening for US-Russia cooperation

(NPR) Radio hosts Ari Shapiro and Audie Cornish speak with Russian expert Kimberly Marten about her thoughts on Rex Tillerson's first official diplomatic visit to Russia. […] MARTEN: Well, if we look…

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Pressure Points: The Syria Intervention as an Instrument of Russia’s EU Policy

(PONARS Policy Memo) The U.S. missile strike on Syria’s al-Shayrat airbase may not signify a major change in the course of the tragic civil war (as it had momentarily seemed), but…

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Marten on PBS Newshour: Assessing the aftermath of U.S. airstrikes in Syria

(PBS Newshour) Syrian officials on Saturday surveyed the damage caused by recent U.S. military strikes on a government airfield that were in retaliation to a chemical attack on Syrian civilians. American…

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The US airstrike in Syria and Russia

(RMR) Yesterday's US airstrikes on the Al Shayrat airfield near Homs seems to have been calculated to allow the Trump administration to appear to be acting decisively without necessarily getting…

Russia’s Conventional Deterrence: An Enhanced Tool for both Warfighting and Political Strategy

March 24, 2017

(PONARS Policy Memo) Over the last two decades, conventional (non-nuclear) deterrence in Russia’s military strategy has changed from being a sub-tactical, sub-strategic warfighting tool to being a separate military-political factor—a self-contained…

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Hale: I’m glad Trump and Putin appear to have agreed on how to disagree on Syria

Russia’s New Conventional Capability: Implications for Eurasia and Beyond

Marten: The US airstrike in Syria may actually be an opening for US-Russia cooperation

Pressure Points: The Syria Intervention as an Instrument of Russia’s EU Policy

Marten on PBS Newshour: Assessing the aftermath of U.S. airstrikes in Syria

The US airstrike in Syria and Russia

Russia’s Conventional Deterrence: An Enhanced Tool for both Warfighting and Political Strategy

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