Foundation for Defense of Democracies

5 days ago | fdd.org | Reagan Easter |John Hardie

The Ukrainian military has recently unveiled several new army corps. The development is part of an ongoing reform in which Kyiv plans to replace problematic temporary command bodies with a host of permanent corps built around its best brigades and commanders. Beginning in the 1990s, Ukraine gradually pared down the sizable military forces it inherited from the Soviet Union. Kyiv cut divisions down to brigades and eliminated army corps, with the last active-duty corps disbanded in 2015.

5 days ago | fdd.org | Reagan Easter |Ivana Stradner

Every May 9, Russian president Vladimir Putin flexes his country’s military might with a grandiose, propagandistic display to mark the Soviet Union’s triumph over Nazi Germany in World War II. Putin regularly appeals to a distorted history of the Second World War to justify Russia’s revanchist foreign policy, and it is high time for the United Kingdom and the United States to counter the Russian dictator’s exploitation of the past.

5 days ago | fdd.org | Reagan Easter |Ben Cohen

In nearly 30 years of writing and speaking about global antisemitism, I’ve been asked more than once if it’s possible to pinpoint when this present wave of hatred first reared its head. It’s a question that takes on added significance in the wake of the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas pogrom in Israel—the event that continues to drive the topic of antisemitism to the top of the headlines around the world. Of course, antisemitism never faded away entirely, as most Jews know all too well.

6 days ago | fdd.org | Clifford D. May |Melanie Phillips

Melanie Phillips is a British journalist, broadcaster, and author. Her weekly column currently appears in The Times of London. She’s a regular panelist on BBC Radio’s The Moral Maze and speaks on public platforms throughout the English-speaking world. Her best-selling book, “Londonistan,” about the British establishment’s capitulation to Islamist aggression, was published in 2006.

6 days ago | fdd.org | Zachary Berman |Clifford D. May

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