War, Mobilization, and Blowback
Vladimir Putin’s mobilization runs into a snag as Russians take to the streets and draft-age men flee the country in massive numbers. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Ukraine
The War After Kharkiv
A stunningly successful Ukrainian counteroffensive in Kharkiv Oblast in the northeast liberated an estimated 3,800 square kilometers of territory, an area roughly the size of the US state of Rhode Island, in just two days as the Russian front line crumbled and troops retreated. Continue reading
A Ukrainian Victory Would Liberate Eastern Europe
As Russia’s full-scale reinvasion of Ukraine approached the half-year mark, Volodymyr Zelensky had victory on his mind. Continue reading
Tbilisi Int’l Conference – September 2022
Brian Whitmore speaks at a panel in Tbilisi, Georgia, organized by the Economic Policy Research Center, the McCain Institute, and the George W. Bush Institute, about Information Wars in Ukraine. Continue reading
Putin’s Energy War
As Ukraine launches a fresh offensive to retake Russian-occupied lands in the south, another struggle is taking shape that will likely be as consequential as what happens on the battlefield. And that is the energy war. Continue reading
Lessons From Between the Cold Wars
Three decades ago, U.S. President George H.W. Bush marked the end of the Cold War in his 1992 State of the Union address. It was a heady moment when anything and everything seemed possible. But it would not last. Continue reading
War and Reckoning
From torture to the summary executions of civilians to the widespread abduction and forced deportation of noncombatants, the anecdotal evidence of Russian war crimes in Ukraine has been mounting for … Continue reading
The Endurance War
The HIMARS are changing the game on the battlefield. The High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems and other longer-range weapons supplied by the West are enabling the Ukrainians to hit high-value Russian targets, reduce their own casualties, and mount a counter offensive in the East and South. Continue reading
Northern Exposure
Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas raised some eyebrows with recent remarks that her country and the other Baltic states would be “wiped from the map” under existing NATO war plans in the event of a Russian invasion. Continue reading
Putin’s Partner in War Crimes
The axis of autocrats in Eastern Europe is also an axis of war criminals.
Russian air and missile strikes from Belarusian territory and airspace hit a Ukrainian kindergarten and an apartment complex on June 25. The attacks killed a 37-year-old man and injured his wife and seven-year-old daughter. Additionally, according to Ukraine’s northern military command, at least 20 rockets launched from Belarus struck the village of Desna, 70 kilometers north of Kyiv in the Chernihiv region. Continue reading