Eastern Europe
Ukraine, Russia, NATO posture, deterrence, and the wider security architecture of Eastern Europe.
235 Dispatches
Falling Russians, India's Balancing Act, and the Sahel's Shifting Alliances
Russia's wave of fatal high-rise falls, India's pivot between China and Washington, Mali courting the US, and Ghana's Bawku crisis under the JNIM shadow.
Russia's Other Private Armies: The PMC Legion Beyond Wagner
Beyond Wagner, Russia runs a sprawling network of private military companies—Redut, Patriot, Rusich, the Imperial Movement, and Gazprom's own battalions.
Ukraine's Manpower Crisis: Desertion, Conscription, and the Drone War Keeping Russia at Bay
Ukraine is short roughly 100,000 troops, yet Russia's costly summer offensive has stalled. How a drone-saturated killzone is masking Kyiv's deepest weakness.
Inmate 4859: The Spy Who Volunteered to Be Imprisoned in Auschwitz
How Polish officer Witold Pilecki got himself arrested, infiltrated Auschwitz, built a resistance network inside the death camp, escaped, and was later executed by communist Poland.
Will Georgia Ever Join NATO? Inside Tbilisi's Stalled Alliance Bid
Overwhelmingly pro-Western Georgia is constitutionally bound to seek NATO membership, yet its own government is sabotaging the bid. Here is why.
The Wagner Group, Evolving: Cossack Camps, Rosgvardia, and the Africa Corps
How the Wagner Group survived Prigozhin's death—folding into Russia's National Guard at home and rebranding as the Africa Corps abroad under Putin's command.
The Death of Yevgeny Prigozhin: Inside the Crash That Ended Wagner's Warlord
How Yevgeny Prigozhin's jet fell from the sky two months after his march on Moscow, who likely killed him, and what it means for the Wagner Group.
The Porcupine Strategy: How Taiwan Plans to Survive a Chinese Invasion
Inside Taiwan's deterrence doctrine, the Overall Defense Concept, and the war games that reveal what survival against a Chinese invasion would actually cost.
The Battle of Mogadishu: Anatomy of Black Hawk Down
How a routine snatch-and-grab raid in 1993 Mogadishu became the longest US firefight since Vietnam, and the strategic defeat that reshaped American policy.
Death of the Tank? The Ukraine War's Biggest Myth
Russian armor has burned across Ukraine, yet the tank is not obsolete. The real lesson is combined arms warfare and the cost of Russian incompetence.
Kremlin Propaganda: What the Russian Public Is Told About the War
How Russian state television manufactures atrocities, denies defeats, and criminalizes dissent to control how the public understands the war in Ukraine.
Naval Drones: How Ukraine's Sea Robots Could Rewrite Naval Warfare
Ukraine's cheap kamikaze sea drones struck Russia's Black Sea Fleet at Sevastopol. Analysts are split on whether the attack signals a true naval revolution.