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The Strategists (O'Brien, Phillips Payson)
Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler. How War Made Them and How They Made War
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Kleptopia (Burgis, Tom)
How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World
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Collateral Damage (Darroch, Kim)
Britain, America, and Europe in the Age of Trump
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How does Russia make missiles?
Manufacturing base of the Russian military industry as the key chokepoint of the war production.
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CONTAINING GLOBAL RUSSIA
The four pillars of Russia’s global foreign policy are self-preservation, decompartmentalization, fragmentation, and integration.
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The Threat from Russia’s Unconventional Warfare Beyond Ukraine, 2022–24
A study from RUSI on how Russia considers both conventional and unconventional military means to be tools of national power and applies them in…
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Shining a Light on the Defense Department’s Industrial Base Problems
A few days before the publication of EU’s European Defence Industrial Strategy (EDIS), it is worthwhile to take a look at how US addresses this issue.
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THE KREMLIN'S OCCUPATION PLAYBOOK
COERCED RUSSIFICATION AND ETHNIC CLEANSING IN OCCUPIED UKRAINE
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The power of Europe’s rebellious farmers
Addressing a multi-layered “lasagne” of problems.
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A new defence strategy for Europe
Mark Leonard's Podcast, the World in 30 Minutes, is dedicated this week to the European Union’s defence strategy, that will involve military, industrial…
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Spycraft and Statecraft
Transforming the CIA for an Age of Competition
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How Wars Don’t End
Ukraine, Russia, and the Lessons of World War I
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