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Taiwan's armed forces hold two days of routine drills to show combat readiness ahead of Lunar New Year holidays at a military base on January 11, 2023, in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. (Annabelle Chih via Getty Images)

Podcast

Cross-Strait Tensions Intensify as Indo-Pacific Allies Begin to Worry About US Relations

Patrick M. Cronin

Asia-Pacific Security Chair

Patrick M. Cronin

Mar 14, 2025

Podcast

Gunners from 43rd Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine fire at Russian position with a 155 mm self-propelled howitzer 2C22 "Bohdana", in the Kharkiv region, on April 21, 2024, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine. (Photo by Anatolii STEPANOV / AFP) (Photo by ANATOLII STEPANOV/AFP via Getty Images)

Gunners from the Armed Forces of Ukraine fire at Russian position with a 155 mm self-propelled howitzer 2C22 in the Kharkiv region on April 21, 2024. (Anatolii Stepanov/AFP via Getty Images)

Commentary

How to Save Ukraine

Can Kasapoğlu

Senior Fellow (Nonresident)

Peter Rough

Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Europe and Eurasia

Can Kasapoğlu & Peter Rough

Mar 14, 2025

Commentary

4 Min Read

The guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald fires the first Naval Strike Missile from a US destroyer on July 18, 2024, in the Pacific Ocean. (US Navy photo)

Reports

Ending Self-Imposed Scarcity: Exploiting America’s Commercial Strengths to Mobilize Weapons Production

Bryan Clark

Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology

Dan Patt

Senior Fellow, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology

Nadia Schadlow

Senior Fellow

Bryan Clark, Dan Patt & Nadia Schadlow

Mar 12, 2025

Reports

5 Min Read

Ukrainian military walk through the destruction after a large scale Russian attack on a residential complex on March 7th that killed 11 people and injured 47 on March 10, 2025 in Dobropillia, Ukraine. U.S. President Donald Trump's recent decision to pause intelligence sharing with Kyiv has sparked concerns in Ukraine that Russian missile strikes could now strike cities without prior warning. (Photo by Paula Bronstein / Getty Images)

Ukrainian military walk through the destruction after a large scale Russian attack on a residential complex on March 10, 2025, in Dobropillia, Ukraine. (Paula Bronstein via Getty Images)

Commentary

Ukraine Military Situation Report | March 12

Can Kasapoğlu

Senior Fellow (Nonresident)

Can Kasapoğlu

Mar 12, 2025

Commentary

4 Min Read

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and US President Donald Trump hold a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on March 13, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik via Getty Images)

Podcast

NATO and President Trump’s Evolving Strategy to End the War in Ukraine

Daniel Kochis

Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia

Daniel Kochis

Mar 12, 2025

Podcast

(Screenshot via Youtube)

Testimony

Arms Control, International Security, and US Assistance to Europe: Review and Reforms for the State Department

Daniel Kochis

Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia

Daniel Kochis

Mar 11, 2025

Testimony

Long Read

(School of War)

Podcast

The Scale of the China Threat and the CCP’s Global Design

Aaron MacLean

Senior Fellow

Aaron MacLean

Mar 11, 2025

Podcast

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force tank landing ship JS Kunisaki breaks away from the formation after a group sail on July 22, 2024, off the coast of Hawaii during Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2024. (US Air Force photo)

Reports

Moving the NATO-IP4 Partnership from Dialogue to Cooperation: Maritime Security and Next-Generation Technologies

Liselotte Odgaard

Senior Fellow (Nonresident)

Bryan Clark

Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology

Kenneth R. Weinstein

Japan Chair

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Hans Huygens

Head of the European Union Desk

Kåre Groes Christiansen

Chief Executive Officer, Odense Maritime Technology

Tsiporah Fried

Senior Advisor to the Vice Chairman of the French Joint Chiefs of Staff

Giulio Pugliese

Director, European University Institute

Shin-ae Lee

Research Fellow, Sasakawa Peace Foundation

Tomonori Yoshizaki

Professor, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Benedetta Berti

Senior Advisor and Head of the Policy Planning Division, Office of the Secretary-General at NATO

Thomas Wilkins

Associate Professor, University of Sydney 

Masafumi Ishii

Former Japanese Ambassador to the US

Tsuneo Watanabe

Senior Research Fellow, Sasakawa Peace Foundation

Liselotte Odgaard, Bryan Clark & Kenneth R. Weinstein More…

Mar 11, 2025

Reports

6 Min Read

Russia's President Vladimir Putin meets with Yevgeny Balitsky in Moscow on November 18, 2024. (Vyacheslav Prokofyev/AFP via Getty Images)

Commentary

A New Deal with Moscow?

Walter Russell Mead

Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship

Walter Russell Mead

Mar 10, 2025

Commentary

1 Min Read

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. on February 4, 2025. (Photo by Bryan Dozier / Middle East Images / Middle East Images via AFP) (Photo by BRYAN DOZIER/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 4, 2025. (Bryan Dozier/AFP via Getty Images)

Commentary

How Trump Channels Reagan in the Mideast

Michael Doran

Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East

Michael Doran

Mar 9, 2025

Commentary

1 Min Read

US President Donald Trump (R) and Russia's President Vladimir Putin talk as they make their way to take the "family photo" during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders' summit in the central Vietnamese city of Danang on November 11, 2017. World leaders and senior business figures are gathering in the Vietnamese city of Danang this week for the annual 21-member APEC summit. (Photo by JORGE SILVA / POOL / AFP) (Photo by JORGE SILVA/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

President Donald Trump and Russia's President Vladimir Putin talk the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders' summit in the central Vietnamese city of Danang on November 11, 2017. (Jorge Silva/AFP via Getty Images)

In the Media

President Trump’s Diplomatic Plan for Russia

Thomas J. Duesterberg

Senior Fellow

Thomas J. Duesterberg

Mar 9, 2025

In the Media

93rd Brigade training with an International M1224 MaxxPro Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected infantry transport vehicle and two Soviet BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicles in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on February 27, 2025. (Jose Colon/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Commentary

Ukraine Military Situation Report | Special Edition: Three Scenarios for the War in Ukraine