Here's What Ukraine Needs in Missiles, Shells, and Troops to Win. It's Completely Doable
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by RAND Corporation
9M ago
After two years of the Russia-Ukraine war with still no end in sight, NATO members have begun asking what it will take to turn the tide in Ukraine's favor. To fully expel Russian forces in the next two years, U.S. support and broad NATO investments will be required ..read more
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The Sources of Renewed National Dynamism
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by Michael J. Mazarr; Tim Sweijs; Daniel Tapia
9M ago
The authors explore the challenge of renewing competitive dynamism in the face of national decline by nominating key qualities that determine a society's competitiveness and analyzing historical cases in which nations achieved anticipatory renewal ..read more
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Why Russia Doesn't Want War Between Israel and Iran
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by RAND Corporation
10M ago
Moscow stands to lose a great deal if the Israel-Hamas conflict escalates into a wider war. While Russia would prefer the West distracted, a direct Israel-Iran conflict would expose Russia's vulnerabilities in the Middle East ..read more
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The Fates of Nations
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by Michael J. Mazarr; Alexis Dale-Huang; John Deak; Gregory Weider Fauerbach; Stacie Goddard; Timothy R. Heath; Joshua Shifrinson
10M ago
Rivalries, especially with China, promise to define U.S. foreign policy and national security challenges for decades. The authors identify historical modes of strategic success and failure in great power rivalries ..read more
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Two Years After Russia Invaded Ukraine: Q&A with RAND Experts
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by RAND Corporation
1y ago
RAND experts discuss the state of the conflict in Ukraine and its prospects, the war's global implications, possible outcomes and solutions, and what the West and the rest of the world might be doing now and once hostilities end ..read more
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Upping the Ante on Western Weapons Could End the Stalemate in Ukraine
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by RAND Corporation
1y ago
The Russo-Ukrainian war might be at a strategic tipping point. The ground fight in Ukraine's east is stalemated, but Russian sea and air power in Crimea is diminished. The future flow of Western aid may be less certain. To address these challenges, the West might escalate support for Ukraine's military and signal firmness to Moscow ..read more
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Netanyahu May Be Standing in the Way of a Two-State Solution. But He's Far From Alone
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by RAND Corporation
1y ago
Opposition to a Palestinian state stretches well beyond the office of Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu. Can American pressure change this ..read more
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Postwar Ukraine: Planning for a Successful and Secure Recovery
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by RAND Corporation
1y ago
To rebuild successfully, Ukraine will need to come out of the war on a new trajectory. It already has an outline of what recovery will look like. The plan looks beyond the immediate damages and envisions more than $750 billion in economic support and projects that would raise a new Ukraine from the destruction ..read more
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The Trouble with a Cease-Fire
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by RAND Corporation
1y ago
Given that Hamas promised to repeat the October 7 attack until Israel's annihilation, it is no wonder that Israelis nearly uniformly want, as one Israeli politician put it, to finish the job this time around. To Israelis, the international calls for a cease-fire ring hollow ..read more
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China’s Global Energy Interconnection
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by Fiona Quimbre; Ismael Arciniegas Rueda; Henri van Soest; Jon Schmid; Howard J. Shatz; Timothy R. Heath; Michal Meidan; Andrea Wullner; Paul Deane; James Glynn; Liam Regan
1y ago
The authors of this report demystify the potential global security implications associated with the Global Energy Interconnection—China’s important but poorly understood initiative to establish a global power grid ..read more
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