March 25, 2022 Early last summer, Pavel Baev, writing for the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri), wrote that, “the tumultuous year 2020 tested and significantly degraded the always ambiguous Russian-Turkish partnership, which had become transactional at best and certainly not ‘strategic’”, and that, “the maturing of autocratic regimes in Russia and Turkey does notContinue reading “Unforced Errors: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Turkey’s Domestic and Foreign Policy Crises”
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Russian Private Military Companies: How Mercenaries Have Become a Major Part of the Russian Toolkit and What the U.S. Can Do About It
July 30, 2021 This week, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) released a truly excellent report, entitled, “Russia’s Corporate Soldiers: The Global Expansion of Russia’s Private Military Companies”, by Dr. Seth G. Jones, Catrina Doxsee, Brian Katz, Eric McQueen, and Joe Moye. The report is a deep dive into the history and useContinue reading “Russian Private Military Companies: How Mercenaries Have Become a Major Part of the Russian Toolkit and What the U.S. Can Do About It”
No LAAF-ing Matter: The Libyan Arab Armed Forces Under Khalifa Haftar
June 11, 2021 Author’s note: I am traveling this week, so instead of a full-length research project, I have instead taken a look at one of the more interesting papers I have read in recent weeks. I hope you find it as fascinating as I did. Regular service resumes next week, but until then, letContinue reading “No LAAF-ing Matter: The Libyan Arab Armed Forces Under Khalifa Haftar”
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