Octavian Manea
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
2018 NATO Summit: Finally a focus on the Black Sea?
The 2016 NATO summit in Warsaw remained Baltic-centric, highly concentrated on the Nordic part of the Eastern Flank. This created an imbalance that...
Europe
European Defence: Toward a Coherent Vision?
The European Commission proposed a reflection paper concerning the future of the European Defence in 2025 while advancing an ambitious “defence fund”...
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Only NATO Can Stand in Russia's Way
Tomáš Valášek, a former Ambassador to NATO, now director of Carnegie Europe, discusses the optics, the outcomes and the likely ripple effects on...
Terrorism
ISIS: Fighting a Textbook Insurgency?
In the second part of a three part series of interviews conducted at the Nafplio Olympia Summer Academy Professor Stathis N. Kalyvas discusses...
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
What Would Make the Warsaw Summit a Success?
British soldiers prepare to enter and clear a building as Polish soldiers acting as enemy forces return fire during a Military Operations in Urban...
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Brexit: Eastern Flank Consequences and NATOs Next Steps
What are the Brexit consequences on NATO’s deterrence focus and the independence of the Intermarium? We continue the Brexit debate in the second part...
Europe
Brexit: What Now for Europe?
What might be the nature of the UK – EU relationship in a post-Brexit context? Brexit is the geopolitical black swan of the summer.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Why NATO Needs a Heavy Defensive Ground Force
A senior defence analyst at the RAND Corporation explains why the overall message that NATO needs to send coming out of Warsaw should be one that...
The Emerging SQUAD
By Muhammad Shoaib • RealClearDefense
Somebody Has to Hold the Ground
By Jay Rogers • RealClearDefense
U.S. Navy Shipbuilding: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
By Brent Ramsey • RealClearDefense
The Services Do Not Need a Four-Star Autonomous Warfare Command
By Steven Wills • RealClearDefense
Honor Them While There Is Still Time
By Jeffrey Rosales • RealClearDefense
U.S. Military Gives Elon Musk’s SpaceX Access to Sensitive Tracking Data
By Guardian
USS McFaul Returns to Norfolk After 332 Day Deployment
By Sam LaGrone
The U.S. Shipbuilding Revival Is Taking Lessons Halfway Around the World
By WSJ
Hypersonic -Firing B-1B Lancer To Fly Into the 2040s
By Kris Osborn, Warrior MavenU.S. Navy Shipbuilding: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
By Brent Ramsey, RCDefense
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