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1 month ago | 
foreignaffairs.com | Elliott Abrams |Stephen Biddle |Monica Duffy Toft |Stephen H Hadley
Over the past few years, concerns about China’s navy and its potential threat to U.S. interests have steadily grown. Two decades ago, the U.S. Navy had 282 battle-force ships against the Chinese navy’s 220, but by the mid-2010sthis advantage had disappeared. Today, Chinese ships outnumber those of the U.S. Navy 400 to 295. If the United States’ shipbuilding pace remains unchanged, this so-called ship gap will only continue to grow.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Stephen Biddle
Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the United States has provided Kyiv with extensive military aid. But that aid has long been subject to restrictions. Some have to do with the type of equipment provided, such as limits on transfers of long-range missiles or aircraft. Others constrain how U.S. weapons can be used.
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Jan 30, 2024 | 
realcleardefense.com | Stephen Biddle
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Jan 29, 2024 | 
almendron.com | Stephen Biddle
Many held high hopes for Ukraine’s 2023 summer offensive. Previous Ukrainian successes at Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Kherson encouraged expectations that a new effort, reinforced with new Western equipment and training, might rupture Russian defenses on a larger scale and sever the Russian land bridge to Crimea. If it did, the thinking went, the resulting threat to Crimea might persuade Putin to end the war. The results fell far short of such hopes.
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Jan 29, 2024 | 
realcleardefense.com | Stephen Biddle
A Deep Defense Is Hard to BeatMany held high hopes for Ukraine’s 2023 summer offensive. Previous Ukrainian successes at Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Khersonencouraged expectations that a new effort, reinforced with new Western equipment and training, might rupture Russian defenses on a larger scale and sever the Russian land bridge to Crimea. If it did, the thinking went, the resulting threat to Crimea might persuade Putin to end the war. Read Full Article »
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Jan 29, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Stephen Biddle |Michelle Gavin |James Lindsay
Many held high hopes for Ukraine’s 2023 summer offensive. Previous Ukrainian successes at Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Khersonencouraged expectations that a new effort, reinforced with new Western equipment and training, might rupture Russian defenses on a larger scale and sever the Russian land bridge to Crimea. If it did, the thinking went, the resulting threat to Crimea might persuade Putin to end the war. The results fell far short of such hopes.
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Jan 29, 2024 | 
myemail.constantcontact.com | Nicholas Kristof |Hal Brands |Stephen Biddle |Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar
Korea has not been the only battleground since the end of the Second World War. Men have fought and died in Malaya, in Greece, in the Philippines, in Algeria and Cuba and Cyprus, and almost continuously on the Indo-Chinese Peninsula. No nuclear weapons have been fired. No massive nuclear retaliation has been considered appropriate.
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Aug 22, 2023 | 
tribunecontentagency.com | Stephen Biddle
The war in Ukraine is being waged with a host of advanced technologies, from remotely operated drones to space-based surveillance, precision weapons, hypersonic missiles, handheld jammers, artificial intelligence, networked communications, and more.
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Aug 17, 2023 | 
militarytimes.com | Stephen Biddle
The Ukraine war is being waged with a host of advanced technologies. Many believe this is transforming warfare, with omnipresent surveillance combining with newly lethal weapons to make legacy systems such as the tank obsolete and to make traditional methods such as large-scale offensive action impractical. But in other ways this war seems very old. It features foot soldiers slogging through muddy trenches in scenes that look more like World War I than Star Wars.
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Feb 16, 2023 | 
zdf.de | Stephen Biddle
Keine Krise, die nicht auch für etwas gut wäre: US-Militärexperten analysieren den Ukraine-Krieg ganz genau - um Erkenntnisse für andere, folgende Konflikte zu gewinnen. Der Grabenkrieg und die Panzergefechte in der Ukraine wirken anachronistisch. Dennoch ziehen US-Experten aus dem Konflikt wichtige Erkenntnisse für mögliche künftige militärische Konflikte, etwa in Taiwan oder im Nahen Osten.
