Though the Ukraine war led to increased defense spending in European NATO member states, the continent remains far off from being able to credibly defend itself without assistance from Washington.

Elections in the United States will be crucial in determining the diplomatic endgame for the Ukraine war, along with where post-war Ukraine falls in the emerging global order.

China has slowly come to inhabit a significant position in NATO security thinking. However, given the different economic stakes involved, it remains unlikely that European threat assessments will be aligning with American ones anytime soon.

Russia’s new Foreign Policy Concept outlines the new multipolar order that Moscow is working toward, an order that shares more than a passing resemblance with the imperial and ideological conflicts of recent past.

The West gambled and lost on Ukraine, and the global system may never be the same.

To traverse eastern Poland is to feel remarkably close to a history that is deeply interwoven with the present while also bearing witness to Europe’s mortality.

Examining the origins, doctrine, and dynamics of Russia’s ongoing hybrid war against the United States.

While the outcome of the Ukraine war remains largely unknowable, one thing that seems certain is that it’s unlikely to involve Ukrainian neutrality.

European attitudes toward nuclear deterrence are changing in the wake of the Ukraine war.

The regional front lines of a new era of global conflict are solidifying in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and the Indo-Pacific.