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Explainers

ExplainerBurden sharing, Alliances, Global posture, Grand strategy, NATO

Achieving burden-sharing: Retrenchment vs. conditionality

By Brian Blankenship

January 21, 2025

ExplainerAsia, Alliances, Balance of power, Burden sharing, China, Diplomacy, Grand strategy, Military analysis, Sanctions

Allies balancing: A safer strategy for the U.S. in Asia

By Rajan Menon and Daniel DePetris

December 4, 2024

ExplainerMiddle East, Alliances, Diplomacy, Iran, Israel

Just stay out: Rejecting the Saudi-Israeli “grand bargain”

By William Walldorf

November 26, 2024

Briefs

Policy PaperSyria, Counterterrorism, Iran, Middle East

Wait and see: A post-Assad Syria

By Rosemary Kelanic

December 23, 2024

BriefUkraine‑Russia, Air power, Europe and Eurasia, Land power, Military analysis, Russia, Ukraine

A decision framework for Ukraine military aid

By Jennifer Kavanagh

November 7, 2024

BriefUkraine‑Russia, Russia, Ukraine

Year three Limiting U.S. ambitions in Ukraine

By Daniel DePetris

February 23, 2024

Reports

ReportGrand strategy, Russia, Ukraine

American interests in the Ukraine War

By Joshua Shifrinson

September 14, 2022

Policy PaperGrand strategy, Middle East

A plan for U.S. withdrawal from the Middle East

By Mike Sweeney

December 21, 2020

ReportMiddle East, Global posture, Grand strategy

The case for withdrawing from the Middle East

By Justin Logan

September 30, 2020