Jan Techau

1 month 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.

Jan 7, 2025 | ip-quarterly.com | Jan Techau

Since Russia’s full-scale attack on Ukraine in February 2022, the geopolitical nightmare constellation for Europe has been solidifying at a rapid pace. Europe will not have significant influence on the outcome of the war, but it will have to pay for its consequences in full, be it through its own rearmament, taking in refugees, the economic consequences or the costs of reconstruction.

Dec 13, 2023 | cepa.org | Jan Techau

Jan Techau is a Senior Fellow with the Transatlantic Defense and Security program at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). He is the Director of Europe at the Eurasia Group.. Jan served as the head of speechwriting for three ministers in the German Ministry of Defense from 2020 to 2023. He was the Director of Carnegie Europe from 2011-2016 .