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March 6, 2024
America’s New Twilight Struggle With Russia
March 6, 2024 — Russia’s invasion of Ukraine forced Washington to rethink its fundamental assumptions about Moscow. Every U.S. president from Bill Clinton to Joe Biden had sought some degree of engagement with Russia. As late as 2021, Biden expressed hope that Russia and the United States could arrive at “a stable, predictable relationship.” But Russia’s brutal war on Ukraine has radically altered that assessment. It is now clear that the two countries will remain antagonists for years to come. The Kremlin possesses immense disruptive global power and is willing to take great risks to advance its geopolitical agenda. Coping with Russia will demand a long-term strategy, one that echoes containment, which guided the United States through the Cold War, or what President John F. Kennedy called a “long, twilight struggle” against the Soviet Union.
March 4, 2024
Lessons and Legacies of the War in Ukraine: Conference Report
The international conference titled “Lessons and Legacies of the War in Ukraine” took place on November 17, 2023, at the National Defense University in Washington, DC. Hosted by the University’s Institute for National Strategic Studies, the conference brought together perspectives from practitioners in the U.S. Government and uniformed military, along with experts from academia and the think tank community in the United States, United Kingdom, Ukraine, and Taiwan, to discuss the lessons that the United States and its allies should take from the first year and a half of the effort to repel Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Feb. 24, 2024
CSR's Dr. Tom Lynch Participates in the Inaugural Quad Think Tank Forum
24 February — Dr. Tom Lynch participated in the Inaugural Quad Think Tank Forum in New Delhi, India.
Feb. 23, 2024
CSR's Dr. Tom Lynch Participates in the Ninth Annual Raisina Dialogue
21-23 February — Dr. Tom Lynch participated in several panel breakouts in the Ninth Annual Raisina Dialogue in New Delhi, India.
Feb. 15, 2024
Joint Force Quarterly 112 (1st Quarter, 2024)
The only way we can change is to help each other to see the need to do so and then suggest a proper path to that new future. We need you to help be a good wingman and show us how to succeed.
Jan. 12, 2024
Taiwan’s January 2024 Elections: What You Need to Know
Introducing the three presidential candidates and reviewing four factors likely to shape the outcome.
Why China can't invade despite it's Taiwanese rival being elected
China is rewriting war plans and could have the military capability to invade Taiwan in ‘four or five years’, Dr Philip Saunders tells Frontline on Times Radio
Dec. 14, 2023
Roundtable Discussion with the with the Republic of Korea
December 14, 2023 — On December 14, 2023, NDU’s Institute for National Strategic Studies hosted a roundtable discussion with the Republic of Korea.
Dec. 11, 2023
Imagining the Future of Landpower
Book review of The Arms of the Future: Technology and Close Combat in the Twenty-First Centry by Jacking Watling.
Dec. 4, 2023
AI’s Impact on War’s Enduring Nature
Despite the remarkable progress in generative AI, the authors contend that war’s essential nature will be impacted to a degree but will not be substantially altered.