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How are the US Army’s tactical network upgrades coming along? We put the question to several military officials (Mark Pomerlau, Defense News)

Several years ago, the U.S. Army embarked on a journey to modernize its tactical network using a multiyear strategy involving the incremental development and...

ASEAN and the new geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific (Amitav Acharya, East Asia Forum)

Southeast Asia is no stranger to strategic competition. But its ‘new geopolitics’ is different from those that existed during the Cold War. In fighting communism,...

Myanmar’s military coup redux (David I Steinberg, East Asia Forum)

For the fourth time since Myanmar’s independence in 1948, the Tatmadaw (military) has reasserted its control. On 1 February 2021, on the cusp of...

The Euro at 20 (Jean Pisani-Ferry, Project-Syndicate)

The euro’s advocates hoped that the single currency would deliver economic and financial integration, policy convergence, political amalgamation, and global influence. While these predictions...

Can Europe Avert a US-China War? (Robert Williams, Moritz Rudolf, Project-Syndicate)

Strategists are currently scrambling to draw lessons from history and devise an approach that enables the US and China to compete without triggering a...

What the US Misunderstands About Russia (Nina L. Khrushcheva, Project-Syndicate)

In recent decades, the US and Europe have consistently dismissed Russia's security concerns relating to its former territories, and portrayed its resistance to NATO’s...

South Africa Today: Opportunities and Challenges for Foreign Policy (Alexandra Arkhangelskaya, Valdai Discussion Club)

Despite political and accelerating socio-economic uncertainties, South Africa is still a destination of leadership and the driver of economic growth in the region and on the continent, while Africa is becoming...

Undemocratic Uncontrollable World (Timofei Bordachev, Valdai Discussion Club)

In the outgoing year, international politics finally got rid of all remnants of controllability, understood as the ability of states to solve the most fundamental problems within the framework of formal...

Greater Eurasia and the US-China Confrontation (Adil Kaukenov, Valdai Discussion Club)

The American-Chinese split provides a suitable groundwork for the fact, that China is interested in strengthening partnership with Russia in developing Eurasian projects. At the same time, to what extent...

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