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The report offers up a detailed account of the high cost the US is likely to pay for “allowing Russia to win” in Ukraine, largely based around the Pentagon forced into bolstering defense and deterrence against a “renewed” Russian threat.
By Tim Martin
US partners Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates are sending a message to US with high-profile Putin meetings, analysts told Breaking Defense.
By Agnes Helou
Jens Stoltenberg, NATO secretary general, said after a meeting today that “unsolved issues” remain, all but ending the prospect of NATO expanding to 32 members at the alliance’s Heads of State Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, next week.
By Tim Martin
“We and our allies are asking [questions] about what situations may evolve as a direct repercussion of this very public attack on Putin’s authority by one of his protegees and closest allies,” said James Cleverly, UK Foreign Secretary.
By Tim Martin
One volunteer ferrying supplies and vehicles into the city of Bakhmut told Breaking Defense the Russian forces attacking act “like a zombie army.”
By Reuben Johnson
Experienced observers of Russia’s defense sector point out that the US-led sanctions have a disproportionate effect on aerospace production, more so than any other sector.
By Reuben Johnson
Why cloud modernization is critical to multi-domain operations
JADC2 is a forcing function, driving digital transformation of network infrastructure.
“Even if the Russians are able to mobilize significant numbers, think about how many months [it is] going to take for them to emerge as operational formations,” Ben Hodges, the former head of US Army forces in Europe, told Breaking Defense.
By Reuben Johnson and Aaron Mehta
In discussing the new Cyberspace Solarium Commission 2.0 report, Sen. Angus King speculated some cyber deterrence against Russia is already paying off, with Putin “afraid” of the NSA.
By Jaspreet Gill
Usually a tool to inform policy, the US government used intelligence itself for strategic effects – which could have implications for the future of conflict and diplomacy, writes Joshua Huminski.
By Joshua Huminski
The White House needs to be careful about what signals it is sending to Moscow with its rhetoric about Russia, writes Robbin Laird in a new column.
By Robbin Laird
Russia is meeting more resistance from Ukrainian forces than it had anticipated, but Russian President Vladimir Putin still has untapped combat power at his disposal.
By Valerie Insinna
Among the assets moving to the Baltics are F-35s and AH-64 Apache helicopters.
By Valerie Insinna and Aaron Mehta
ARTEMIS “has both electronic collection and ground scanning radar so it could for example see the movement of tanks in real time, and collect RF [radio frequency] signals emitted by adversaries,” said Tom Spoehr of the Heritage Foundation. “Its sensors can go hundreds of miles out, so with the route it is flying it can see well into Belarus, Kaliningrad, and perhaps even into the Donbas region.”
By Valerie Insinna and Andrew Eversden
Analyst Joshua Huminski asks, “What, in the end, is the balance Kyiv is willing to strike between what it wants to achieve (and at what cost) and what it actually can?”
By Joshua Huminski