As Iranian-designed Shahed drones struck critical infrastructure across the Persian Gulf in early March, military planners in Washington confronted [...]
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THE KREMLIN FILES / COLUMN — Recent weeks have seen seismic shifts in the world’s authoritarian landscape: from the dramatic removal of Venezuela’s [...]
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“Despite claims of battlefield momentum in Ukraine, the data shows that Russia is paying an extraordinary price for minimal gains and is in decline [...]
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“Despite claims of battlefield momentum in Ukraine, the data shows that Russia is paying an extraordinary price for minimal gains and is in decline [...]
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DEEP DIVE — Nearly three years into the most comprehensive sanctions regime ever imposed on a significant economy, Russia’s defense industrial base [...]
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Each of my eight trips to Ukraine since retiring from the CIA in the summer of 2023 has been filled with unique challenges. Each time I’ve witnessed [...]
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The recently leaked 28-point peace plan to end the war in Ukraine is nothing short of an appeasement that satisfies the maximalist demands of the [...]
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CIPHER BRIEF REPORTING -- President Donald Trump said Monday that he is moving forward with plans to arrange a meeting between Russian President [...]
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SUBSCRIBER+ EXCLUSIVE REPORTING - The scenes are stunning. Russian soldiers held as prisoners on Russian soil.Ukrainian soldiers tearing down Russian [...]
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SUBSCRIBER+ EXCLUSIVE – It may be President Biden’s most consequential decision about the Ukraine war since Russia’s February 2022 invasion: allowing [...]
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SUBSCRIBER+ EXCLUSIVE REPORTING — In late March, hunkered in his sandbag-lined compound with visiting Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, [...]
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SUBSCRIBER+ EXCLUSIVE REPORTING — Ukrainians greeted Saturday’s long-awaited House passage of $60.8 billion in aid with justifiable jubilation. For [...]
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SUBSCRIBER+ EXCLUSIVE REPORTING - Ukraine is spending $800 million to build trenches and multilayered fortifications along a 600-mile front line in [...]
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SUBSCRIBER+ EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS - Two years ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his armed forces to attack Ukraine. Putin called it a [...]
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OPINION — According to recent U.S. government estimates, approximately 315,000 Russian soldiers have either been killed or wounded in the ongoing war [...]
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OPINION — The Ukrainian Armed Forces are starting the new year running critically low on supplies. Efforts by Congressional leaders and the Biden [...]
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REVIEWS / BOOKS — Two books appeared this year that offer helpful and enlightening insights into the importance of history and its perception - or [...]
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