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KidsThe United States has finally responded to the Russian proposal for a Treaty guaranteeing peace, but it is to refuse to debate the Kremlin’s arguments. At the same time they have organized a vast communication campaign accusing Russia of preparing an invasion of Ukraine in February. This was firmly denied by Kiev.

The United States has finally responded to the Russian proposal for a Treaty guaranteeing peace, but it is to refuse to debate the (...) [Voltaire Network]

Effectively calculating risk requires a clear-eyed understanding of the stakes.

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If American deterrence fails, it may not be because the United States’s adversaries doubt U.S. military capabilities, so much as they doubt American willpower.

The Transatlantic Security Initiative advances a new understanding for policymakers regarding how emerging technologies should factor into forthcoming arms control regimes.

Gray-zone strategies are designed precisely to impose such quandaries on custodians of an existing order.

Deterrence failure would likely lead first to proportionate cross-domain escalation involving Russian cyberattacks against U.S. infrastructure, with the expectation of containing the risks of vertical escalation.

Real deterrence has to be underpinned by military capability, particularly in the skies, author and Atlantic Council expert Scott Cooper writes.

Casting the atomic canon: (R)evolving nuclear strategy