Russia is filling battlefield gaps with coerced migrants and foreign recruits, exporting long-term security risks to some of the world’s most fragile regions.

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Militarily, the expiration [last Thursday] of New START [2010 Treaty with Russia] enables the United States to take parallel steps. We will complete our ongoing nuclear modernization programs that ...

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 31, 2024: Commander of the U.S. Cyber Command Army Gen. Paul Nakasone testifies before the House (Select) Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese ...

Frank Archibald retired from the CIA in 2015 as the Director of the National Clandestine Service an assignment in which he led all of CIA's operations worldwide. His 31 years of CIA service included ...

Sophie Richardson is the China director at Human Rights Watch. A graduate of the University of Virginia, the Hopkins-Nanjing Program, and Oberlin College, Richardson is the author of numerous articles ...

William Green founded TD International, a leading global advisory firm based in Washington, DC in 1999 to help clients navigate the complex and often opaque business environments in which they operate ...

Paul McHale is the president of Civil Support International LLC, a consulting firm offering advisory services to government agencies and private contractors related to military sales, homeland defense ...

Edwin M. Truman, nonresident senior fellow since July 2013, joined the Peterson Institute for International Economics as senior fellow in 2001. Previously he served as assistant secretary of the US ...

He has been called his generation’s finest writer of international intrigue and one of the greatest American spy novelists ever. Compelling, passionate, haunting, brilliant: these are the words that ...