Lionel Beehner
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Indo-Pacific/Asia
August 31, 2026
The U.S. National Security Implications of an Independent Greenland
It’s not every day that a large mass of ice divides continents. Greenland has surfaced as no longer a peripheral issue discussed on the sidelines of...
Lionel Beehner • RealClearDefense
Russo-Ukraine War
October 3, 2020
Why Turkey's Hot Pursuit of ISIS Is Not What It Seems
Last week, in what commentators are calling an escalation in the Syrian Civil War, Turkish tanks rolled across the border near Jarablus, ostensibly in...
Lionel Beehner • RealClearDefense
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