Time to Rethink Deterring Russia?
The United States has taken a number of steps in recent weeks to push back on Russian aggression, but they won’t deter Russia’s aggressive campaign […] More
Europe
Kicking Out Russian Spies May Give US Intel Black Eye
The U.S., EU and other Western allies announced Monday that they would expel a total of more than 100 Russian diplomats they claim are spies, […] More
Surviving Trump: Advice to Europe from an Obama Veteran
Cipher Brief network expert Michel Flournoy, former senior Obama administration defense official, offered advice to her former European counterparts at the German Marshall Forum in […] More
Will US Join UK in Challenging Russia over Nerve Agent Spy Attack?
In a speech before Parliament, British Prime Minister Theresa May said it was “highly likely” Russia was behind a “military grade” nerve agent attack—an assassination […] More
Awkward Family Dinner: Blunt Talk in Brussels Targeting Trump
BRUSSELS – European officials are still going through the stages of grief, more than a year after President Donald Trump was elected, stuck somewhere between […] More
Russian Aggression: Cold War 2.0 – Or Did the First One Never End?
Russia continues to wage hybrid warfare across Europe and the United States, and—for the most part—the West has been slow to respond, leaving some to […] More
Putin’s Soviet Throwback: Build More Nukes, Blame the West
On March 1, Russian President Vladimir Putin boasted of new nuclear-capable weapons that could overcome any U.S. missile defenses, in a feisty pre-election “state-of-the-nation” speech. […] More
FBI: These Are the Russians Who Tried to Influence US Elections
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has released the indictment of 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities for allegedly interfering in the 2016 presidential election. The […] More
Winnefeld on US Clash with Syrian Forces
The U.S. coalition says in defending its own troops, it killed an estimated 100 pro-Assad regime fighters on Wednesday. This clash, which took place in […] More
Mattis: New U.S. Nuclear Capabilities Needed to Deter Moscow
Pentagon chief Jim Mattis defended the administration’s 2018 Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) as the right response to Russia’s rising nuclear capacity and its failure to […] More
Pompeo Says Nothing ‘Untoward’ in Meeting Russian Intel Chiefs
CIA Director Michael Pompeo told Democrats that there is nothing “untoward” about meeting with Russia’s senior spy chiefs, following reports that he did just that […] More
The Last 48 Hours Have Been Good for Putin
Just ahead of President Donald Trump’s delivery of the State of the Union, the State Department released a list of “influential Russians,” including several politicians […] More
Kremlin and U.S. Circle Each Other in Warming Arctic
Bottom Line: The potential of economic development in the Arctic for a financially strapped Russia has increased the Kremlin’s attention to the security of its […] More
Blood and Quicksand: Moscow and UN Vie for Syria Peace
Bottom Line: Multiple rounds of peace talks aimed at ending Syria’s seven-year civil war have failed to yield results or relieve a catastrophic humanitarian crisis […] More
Turkey-U.S.: How to Rekindle a Win-Win Relationship
Bottom Line: Although the U.S. and Turkey engage in robust cooperation on the political, military, and economic fronts, Ankara has experienced significant changes under the […] More
The Kremlin Is Having a Very Good Christmas. Here’s Why…
For this last week of 2017, we asked our experts to look back on key topics for this year, and predict what they see for […] More
Chased by China & Russia, “Doing More of the Same Is Not the Answer” for the U.S. Navy
The United States Navy has achieved unmatched supremacy on the world’s seas, but Russia and China are diligently growing their naval capabilities, trying to close […] More
View: Russia Trapped in Syria
The military withdrawal from Syria that President Vladimir Putin touts is less than it seems. The stakes are high because leaders in Moscow see the […] More