Colby Badhwar

2 months ago | cepa.org | David Kirichenko |Colby Badhwar |Jan Techau |Stephen Blank

“There’s been a huge surge in their drone numbers lately, and so many different ‘birds’ in the air, including a lot of fiber-optic drones that you can’t jam,” said Anatoliy, the commander of a mortar battery from Ukraine’s 92nd Separate Assault Brigade, who was transferred from Kharkiv to Kursk to help counter relentless Russian assaults. “We’ve already lost a lot of equipment,” he said.

2 months ago | cepa.org | Colby Badhwar |Michael Peck |Dan Rice

During a post-election debate on February 23, Friedrich Merz, Germany’s presumptive incoming Chancellor, said that his “absolute priority will be to strengthen Europe as quickly as possible so that, step by step, we can really achieve independence from the USA.”This was a stunning statement from a man who has long been regarded as one of the most pro-American politicians in Germany. Merz’s sentiment is increasingly common on the European continent.

2 months ago | cepa.org | Juraj Majcin |Paul Taylor |Sam Greene |Colby Badhwar

The continent’s defense, technological and industrial capacity should be strengthened quickly using the leverage of the European Union’s regulatory power and its enormous market. To drive this, governments will need to increase national spending and borrow collectively to meet growing defense demands.

2 months ago | cepa.org | Stephen Blank |Colby Badhwar |Nico Lange

Statements by leading members of the Trump administration regarding European security quickly reveal something worrying — a series of uncertainties and contradictions that make its positions hard to understand and risk serious worldwide consequences.