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Campaigning in the Grey Zone

Oct 14, 2024 | rand.org | Sean Monaghan |Tim McDonald

Topics Availability: Non-RAND Year: 2023 Pages: 24 Document Number: EP-70676 This publication is part of the RAND external publication series. Many RAND studies are published in peer-reviewed scholarly journals, as chapters in commercial books, or as documents published by other organizations. RAND is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis. RAND's publications do not necessarily reflect the opinions of its research clients and sponsors.
Getting Strategic Competition Right

Sep 20, 2024 | rand.org | Sean Monaghan |Tim McDonald

Topics Availability: Non-RAND Year: 2024 Pages: 1 Document Number: EP-70638 This publication is part of the RAND external publication series. Many RAND studies are published in peer-reviewed scholarly journals, as chapters in commercial books, or as documents published by other organizations. RAND is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis. RAND's publications do not necessarily reflect the opinions of its research clients and sponsors.
Getting Strategic Competition Right: Competing for the System

Sep 18, 2024 | realcleardefense.com | Tim McDonald |Sean Monaghan

“A serious problem in planning against American doctrine is that the Americans do not read their manuals, nor do they feel any obligation to follow their doctrine.” This Soviet observation during the Cold War could easily apply to the Joint Concept for Competing, released last year by then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley. At ninety-one pages and over thirty thousand words the JCC is unlikely to be read by many serving personnel.
Getting Strategic Competition Right: Competing for the System

Sep 17, 2024 | mwi.westpoint.edu | Tim McDonald |Sean Monaghan

“A serious problem in planning against American doctrine is that the Americans do not read their manuals, nor do they feel any obligation to follow their doctrine.” This Soviet observation during the Cold War could easily apply to the Joint Concept for Competing, released last year by then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley. At ninety-one pages and over thirty thousand words the JCC is unlikely to be read by many serving personnel.
Beyond “Trump-Proofing”: NATO’s Real Adversaries

Jul 18, 2024 | csis.org | Sean Monaghan

NATO is “Trump-proofing” itself. This was a common refrain before and after last week’s historic 75th-anniversary summit of allied leaders in Washington. But the idea of “Trump-proofing” NATO is misleading: the biggest threat to the alliance is Vladimir Putin, not Donald Trump. The effort of allies to “Putin-proof” Ukraine and NATO was the main deliverable of the Washington summit. Allies also announced measures to deal with the growing threat to their security from Beijing.
What Will Happen at NATO’s Washington Summit?

Jul 2, 2024 | csis.org | Sean Monaghan |Sissy Martinez |Andrea PALAZZI |Otto Svendsen

Next week, on July 9–11, the leaders of NATO will gather in Washington, D.C., for a historic summit, 75 years on since the alliance’s founding in 1949. The meeting comes at a perilous time in NATO’s history, with the alliance facing a war in Europe amid several global crises. According to Jens Stoltenberg, NATO’s secretary general, the Washington summit will focus on three major topics.
Why Can’t the West Force Russia to Make Peace in Ukraine?

Jun 26, 2024 | csis.org | Sean Monaghan

Last week President Zelensky of Ukraine traveled to Bürgenstock, Switzerland, where he was joined by representatives from over 100 nations and institutions for the first “Summit on Peace in Ukraine.” The summit began “a wide-ranging dialogue on peace in Ukraine” and facilitated agreement upon a peace plan, a “living document” that has so far been signed by over 80 nations—the widest international endorsement yet of principles to end the war.
Europe Needs More Conventional Forces, Not Its Own Nukes

Jun 21, 2024 | csis.org | Doreen Horschig |Sean Monaghan

All eyes will be on Milwaukee, Wisconsin on July 15 when presidential candidate Donald Trump takes to the stage at the 2024 Republican National Convention. Just four days earlier, President Joe Biden will address NATO’s 75th anniversary homecoming summit in Washington. Across the Atlantic, leaders in Europe and Moscow will be listening closely to both of them. European leaders will be nervous.
NATO’s Missing Pillar

Jun 15, 2024 | realcleardefense.com | Mathieu Droin |Sean Monaghan |Jim Townsend |Jim Townsend

The Alliance Needs a More Powerful EuropeAs war rages in Ukraine and the U.S. presidential campaign heats up, NATO leaders are grappling with how to prepare the alliance for all possible outcomes. The German and Danish defense ministers have warned that Russia could attack NATO allies “within five years.” Conflict could come sooner if Russia achieves a breakthrough on the battlefield in Ukraine.
NATO’s Missing Pillar

Jun 14, 2024 | almendron.com | Jim Townsend |Mathieu Droin |Sean Monaghan

As war rages in Ukraine and the U.S. presidential campaign heats up, NATO leaders are grappling with how to prepare the alliance for all possible outcomes. The German and Danish defense ministers have warned that Russia could attack NATO allies “within five years”. Conflict could come sooner if Russia achieves a breakthrough on the battlefield in Ukraine.