Russia Can Afford to Take a Beating in Ukraine

Russian forces in Ukraine are suffering casualties at more than 400,000 per year — enough to pack the house at the world’s four largest stadiums. Losses like these have been fuel for simultaneous talk of inevitable Russian defeat or victory in the publ…

May 21, 2025
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The Middle East’s AI Warfare Laboratory

On a chilly morning in November 1911, Lt. Giulio Gavotti, an Italian pilot, leaned out from the cockpit of his monoplane over the oases and farmlands of modern-day Libya and tossed four small grenades onto an encampment of Ottoman soldiers. Widely cove…

April 28, 2025
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Erdoğan’s Last Great Gamble

Over the course of the last 22 years, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey has fought and endured a great deal in order to remain in power. Court challenges, corruption investigations, close elections, economic downturns, armed uprisings and attemp…

April 10, 2025
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