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Space Warfare

August 6, 2026

Taking LEO Off the Board: Russian Thinking About Anti-Satellite Warfare

Executive Summary The Soviet Union and Russia have invested in anti-satellite weapons to ensure that their nuclear deterrent remains credible. For...

Aaron Stein • Foreign Policy Research Institute

Air Warfare

April 10, 2026

The UAV-Enabled Anti-Air Defense Campaign in the Third Gulf War

In late 2020, drones burst onto the national security scene in a new way. During the Nagorno-Karabakh war between Turkey and Armenia that year, videos...

Aaron Stein • Foreign Policy Research Institute

Russo-Ukraine War

October 17, 2025

American Missiles and Russian Dachas

Tomahawk and the Future of Stability and Deterrence in Europe The Tomahawk cruise missile is a near perfect machine . Its development followed...

Aaron Stein • Foreign Policy Research Institute

Space Warfare

September 17, 2025

Nuclear Weapons In Space: Orbital Bombardment and Strategic Stability

Executive Summary In 2015, a new space race began. Blue Origin, a privately owned company, landed a booster on a launch pad back on earth, after...

Aaron Stein • Foreign Policy Research Institute

Iran

April 15, 2024

Tempting Fate: The Implications of Iran's Attack on Israel

On Saturday, April 13, the Islamic Republic of Iran launched an unprecedented aerial attack on Israel. The Israeli military and its allies and...

Aaron Stein • Foreign Policy Research Institute
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Iran

October 2, 2020

Roundtable: The Iranian Way of War

The Islamic Republic of Iran has been at war for almost its entire existence, beginning with the Iraqi invasion of the country in 1980 and, then, in...

Aaron Stein • RealClearDefense

Terrorism

October 2, 2020

Roundtable: U.S. Accuses Iran of Tanker Attacks

On Thursday, June 13, 2019, two tankers, the Kokuka Courageous and the MT Front Altair, were damaged in explosions in the Gulf of Oman, after...

Aaron Stein • RealClearDefense
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Military Strategy

October 3, 2020

The Fracturing of Turkey's Military

The failed coup attempt last Friday challenged a number of key assumptions about the Turkish Republic. Turkey, a NATO ally since 1952, has always been...

Aaron Stein • RealClearPolitics
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Terrorism

October 3, 2020

Finding A Way Forward in The War Against ISIS

An F-22A Raptor in the US Central Command area of responsibility prepares for strike operations against ISIS targets in Syria, Sept. 23, 2014.

Aaron Stein • RealClearPolitics
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Middle East

October 3, 2020

Turkey's Problems in Aleppo - Russia and the Kurds

A Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) fighter walks near a wall, which activists said was put up by Turkish authorities, on the Syria-Turkish...

Aaron Stein • RealClearPolitics

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