I'm not particularly comfortable with the idea of boycotting the Winter Olympics in Russia because of the nation's anti-gay laws. Mostly, I don't think it's fair to athletes to be used as pawns in a political game and I do think that athletes can become...
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Very interesting video demonstrating the maneuver capabilities of the Su-35S. Bonus footage of Bill Sweetman talking about what that maneuverability means in a tactical context, especially in terms of fighting.
My latest at the Diplomat talks a bit more about Nate Jones' work at National Security Archive: Like in the United States, the political and military elite of the Soviet.
Stalin's General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov is a new biography of Field Marshal Georgy Zhukov from Geoffrey Roberts. The book is interesting, but ultimately disappointing to most audiences with...
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I have some thoughts on the diffusion of anti-access military technology over at The Diplomat During the Cold War, the Soviet Union had a strong political incentive to maximize diffusion.
Dmitry Gorenburg and I chat about Russian foreign policy on the latest episode of Foreign Entanglements: Unfortunately we lost the last forty minutes of the video, which included discussions of Sino-Russian relations, Sino-Indian relations, Russian views of the US election, and Russian rearmament.
Was on the Alyona Show last night with Ali Gharib. I had lighting issues.
All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and.
Jesse Zwick at TNR engages in some policing of the left side of the political discourse: What is surprising, however, are the number of decidedly non-crazy American experts and journalists who appear regularly on the channel’s news programs as guest analysts. Indeed, whether it’s playing host...
Mark Leon Goldberg and myself talked Russia-Syria on Wednesday:
This week's Over the Horizon column suggests that the Russian arms industry is in for some long term trouble: During the Cold War, the Soviet Union’s military-industrial complex sustained the.