Gil Barndollar

Oct 25, 2024 | foreignpolicy.com | Gil Barndollar

Military Afghanistan The collapse of the Afghan state amid the United States’ withdrawal in 2021 gifted the new Taliban government with more than $7 billion worth of U.S. military equipment. Afghanistan’s new overlords suddenly found themselves with fleets of Humvees, mountains of machine guns, and forests of radars and satellite dishes.

Sep 19, 2024 | nationalinterest.org | Gil Barndollar

KYIV, Ukraine--To bastardize Faulkner, in Ukraine’s capital, the past isn’t past: it is a soldier in the battles of the present and the future. A brand-new exhibit in Kyiv’s World War II museum, housed in the base of the towering Mother Ukraine statue, already showcases the weeks-old incursion into Russia’s Kursk district.

Sep 1, 2024 | vox.com | Gil Barndollar |Matthew C. Mai

Coverage of the wars in Ukraine and Gaza is mostly dominated by talk of weapons. Reporters and analysts focus on suicide drones, on shell deficits, on . But for all the attention devoted to modern weapons and munitions, both conflicts are proving that modern war still comes down to people. In Ukraine, battlefield deaths on both sides were estimated to number more than 200,000 by the fall of 2023.

Sep 1, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Gil Barndollar

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May 19, 2024 | archive.is | Casey Michel |Michael Hirsh |Sulmaan Khan |Gil Barndollar

For nearly a half-century, there was a single factor, a single raison d’être, at the heart of the entire Soviet project. But it wasn’t fanning communist revolution or even spreading Marxist Leninism itself. Rather, it was—as Sergey Radchenko argues in To Run the World, his new, more than 600-page doorstopper on the Soviet leaders’ views during the Cold War—something far simpler, and far more universal: prestige.