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Carl O. Schuster • RealClearDefense

The Ukraine and Iran Wars Are a Wake Up Call

The two wars have both demonstrated the importance of unmanned systems in war and demolished the myths that have driven U.S. National Security...

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Dennis T. Cosgrove • RealClearDefense

The First Test of Peace Lies in Ukraine's Borderlands

... what becomes of the communities scattered across the scarred borderlands between Russia and Ukraine?...

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The First Test of Peace Lies in Ukraine's Borderlands

Dennis T. Cosgrove • RealClearDefense • October 30, 2026

The first time I walked into the headquarters of Russia’s Federal Security Service at Lubyanka, every instinct told me I was entering the wrong building.

I was the FBI Legal Attaché in Moscow. The Cold War had ended, but decades of suspicion between our institutions had not. Cooperation with the FSB did not come naturally, nor did trust.

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Matthew Blackburn • Responsible Statecraft

Is Europe Starting To Come to Its Senses on Ukraine?

Finland and Norway are hinting at the need for a new approach to the continent's relationship with Russia...

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Lionel Beehner • Orbis

How the Gamification of the Battlefield Is Reshaping War

Militaries have long applied the language and mechanics of video games to the modern battlefield. But the so-called “gamification of war” has...

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Ieva Ilves • CEPA

Ukraine Combats AI Cyberattacks

Russian artificial intelligence-powered hacks are proliferating. Ukraine’s defenses represent a model for the West....

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Jillian Kay Melchior • The Wall Street Journal

The Ukraine ‘Kill Zone’ Is AI’s Testing Ground

Artificial intelligence is transforming war in real time by analyzing data and automating weapons....

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L. Todd Wood • Armed Forces Press

NATO’s SACEUR Gen Alexus Grynkewich Is Not Telling the Truth

The 'Grynch' tells some alternative facts...

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Stavros Atlamazoglou • Sandboxx News

Ukraine’s Eastwards Counterattack Is Proving Successful Thanks to Artillery

Sandboxx News makes the complex approachable. Bridging the gap between academic expertise and practical boots-on-the-ground experience, we remove the...

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Susie Blann • Associated Press

Ukraine Abandons Truce and Attacks Russian Oil Refinery

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine attacked a Russian oil refinery Thursday, abandoning a brief truce involving energy-related targets that it said Moscow...

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Ukraine Abandons Truce and Attacks Russian Oil Refinery

Susie Blann • RealClearDefense • October 16, 2026

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine attacked a Russian oil refinery Thursday, abandoning a brief truce involving energy-related targets that it said Moscow did not heed, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he felt betrayed by U.S. President Donald Trump.

The drone strike started a fire at the refinery about 300 kilometers (180 miles) southeast of Moscow in Russia’s Ryazan region, according to the Russian Defense Ministry and Ryazan Gov. Pavel Malkov. Russia’s Astra online news outlet posted what it said was a photograph of the blaze.