The nation that leads diplomatic resolve in this moment of contested aggression will lead nuclear and strategic deterrence ...

MICHAEL MCFAUL is Director of the Freeman Spogli Institute, Professor of Political Science, and a Hoover Fellow at Stanford ...

NATO's enhanced ground capabilities in the Baltic region spark Russian warnings as military focus intensifies on Kaliningrad ...

Russia has responded to President Trump’s new hardline Ukraine strategy with a mix of public dismissal and covert military escalation. -While former president Dmitry Medvedev mocked the US threat of ...

The 2022 invasion came as a shock to many of Russia’s neighbors in eastern Europe, the South Caucasus, and Central Asia, ...

In his 2022 article, “Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and NATO’s Nuclear Credibility Crisis,” Tyler Bowen argued that NATO ...

Even if Trump changes course and embraces the strategy of escalate to de-escalate; fulfilling the promises and keeping the ...

Russia's mobile missile force, an extraordinary force of intercontinental ballistic missiles, has been a key element of the country’s nuclear strategy for decades. Unlike the U.S. which relied ...

As the world fixated on the sudden eruption of hostilities between Israel and Iran, a quieter, more calculating player loomed just offstage.

On Russia, Gabbard is implicitly suggesting that the U.S. should bend to Vladimir Putin’s nuclear blackmail. If the Russian dictator threatens to drop a nuclear weapon because Ukraine dares ...

Ending the Russia-Ukraine war demands a shift in strategy from the Trump administration—one that compels Russian President Vladimir Putin to negotiate by coupling sustained pressure with ...