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Putin Announces Significant Change in Russian Nuclear Use Doctrine
Carl Conetta, 26 Sept 2024 Speaking to the Security Council on Sept 25, 2024, [more]
Putin verbatim: Ukraine’s Use of NATO Deep Strike Missiles Would Mean West at War with Russia
Summary: Putin asserts that Ukraine’s use of Western long-range [more]
Expert Letter on Ukraine: NATO Should Not Move Ukraine Toward Membership
July 3, 2024 – Full letter with 61 signatories ⇒ PDF The letter argues that [more]
Why the Biden Cease-fire Proposal Will Not End the Gaza War Despite UN Approval
Carl Conetta, 12 June 2024 The UN Security Council resolution supporting the Biden [more]
Brinkmanship and Nuclear Threat in the Ukraine War
Western brinkmanship in Ukraine depends on denying there is a brink. That’s a [more]
“Nuclear Blackmail” – Misdirection in the Ukraine War Debate
Some say that turning to diplomacy in the face of nuclear threats will prompt a [more]
Catastrophe: The Global Cost of the Ukraine War
Carl Conetta, 02 May 2023 The Russia-Ukraine war has been a disaster for [more]
Fantasy in Ukrainian War Scenarios – what will 2023 bring?
by Charles Knight, March 2023. The present status of the war in Ukraine begs the [more]
Now That They Made a War – 1 year & 20 years after the invasion of Iraq
The following is a Postscript (March 2004) to the report (September 2002) of a [more]
oped: We Are Tempting Armageddon in Ukraine – Aviation Week
by Carl Conetta, appearing 07 Mar 2023 in Aviation Week. Link to original oped: [more]
Noted: Of Nuclear Bluffs and Red Lines in the Ukraine War
by Charles Knight In his New York Times essay of 02 January 2023, “Putin Has No Red [more]
Noted: The Fate of Russia in US Policy
An excerpt from “NATO Expansion: Costs and Implications” a presentation [more]
The “Stable Nuclear Deterrent” collapses in the Ukraine War
Charles Knight, 17 October 2022 A society must assume that it is stable, but the [more]
Did NATO expansion prompt the Russian attack on Ukraine?
The short answer is “no” – but there is more to the issue than that. A closer [more]
Russia-Ukraine War: Estimating Casualties & Military Equipment Losses
Carl Conetta, Project on Defense Alternatives, updated 03 Apr 2022 Within days of [more]
And So Now… It’s War?
Carl Conetta, Project on Defense Alternatives, 21 Feb 2022 The battle within [more]
Putin’s Next, Best Move – The Logic and Limits of Russian Action on Ukraine
Carl Conetta, Project on Defense Alternatives, 14 Feb 2022 Summary: Moscow will act [more]
Pentagon Fact Sheet on February 2022 Troop Deployment to Europe
Pentagon Fact Sheet: Posture Update in Support of Allies in Europe (PDF), 02 Feb [more]
Noted: The origin of the 38th parallel division of Korea – the map
noted by Charles Knight, 31 January 2022. Below is the US Army map (from the US [more]
Resolving the Ukraine Crisis
War? Only If We Want It Carl Conetta, Project on Defense Alternatives, 26 Jan 2022. [more]
Noted: Attending to the Historical Perspective of the Other Side in Nuclear Proliferation Diplomacy
by Charles Knight, 09 January 2022 Iran – Israel/USA It is thought [more]
To End America’s Longest War the US-Korea Alliance Must Change
A relationship of partners will be more productive than the archaic patron-client one that actively shuns South Korean interest. And such strategic recalibration would come with the added benefit of helping end America’s longest war. [more]
Afghanistan: What Just Happened? What Comes Next?
Can the United States escape the vortex of its 20-year war? Carl Conetta, Project [more]
Afghanistan: The Fog at the End of the Tunnel*
When will US troops leave Afghanistan? Why the uncertainty? And how the logistics [more]
Noted: Destroyer of Worlds*
By Carl Conetta, 14 March 2021 Between 1945 and 1962, the United States conducted [more]
Noted: Peace & Security via Hegemony?
“The idea of international law presupposes the separate existence of many [more]
Principles for Building Confidence and Stability into National Defenses and International Security
…toward sufficient, affordable, robust, and reliable defense postures by [more]
Don’t Buy a Cold War with China: It’s a Bad Deal!
by Charles Knight, 31 January 2021. During the last decade, we entered a new [more]
Noted: George Kennan on NATO Expansion
Excerpt from George F. Kennan, “A Fateful Error,” New York Times, 05 [more]
Re-purposing the Tale of Russian Kill Bounties on US Troops in Afghanistan
By Carl Conetta, 13 Jan 2021. (Extensive Background Bibliography at Bottom) [more]

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