Section: Hoover Institution (USA)
NATO And The War In Ukraine
Join the Commonwealth Club World Affairs Peninsula Chapter and the Los Altos Library on September 4, 2024, as Hoover Institution fellow Rose Gottemoeller discusses how NATO should be thinking about future challenges, especially as China builds up the military threats in Asia. …read more Source:: Hoover...
The Crumbling Foundations Of American Strength
When Russia’s invasion of Ukraine appeared imminent in early 2022, U.S. intelligence officials were so confident that Russian tanks would roll quickly to victory that staff evacuated the U.S. embassy in Kyiv. Based on traditional measures of power, the intelligence assessment made sense. In 2021, Russia ranked fifth in the world in defense...
The Hoover Institution Briefing On National Security | August 2024
Welcome to the Hoover Institution’s briefing on national security. In this issue we are looking at the importance of public and private funding of quantum computing in a technological race with China and Russia; a change in the established military doctrine; Narendra Modi’s third term at the helm of Indian politics—but with coalition...
Issues in Negotiations: Looking Toward an End to the War in Ukraine
America’s current policy goal with the Russian war on Ukraine might be articulated as helping to achieve the best possible position for Ukraine to end the fighting through a settlement. This essay considers the difficult and complicated issues that would be involved in such negotiations. Importantly, to be successful, diplomacy would have...
Articles On: Hong Kong, Propaganda, Ukraine, Censorship, Military Power, Arrest, Data Security, Chinese Stock, Secret Commodity Stockpile, Supercomputers, and Tilting Economy
Articles that illuminate the lack of personal freedom and political liberty under the Chinese Communist Party. …read more Source:: Hoover...
The Right Way To Quickly End The War In Ukraine
The United States has hit a wall in Ukraine. President Joe Biden’s incrementalist approach is not working. Instead, it has led to a long and tragic war of attrition. Ukraine’s faltering performance in the past year has raised the grim prospect of a Russian victory, which would see Kyiv fall under Moscow’s imperial dominion....
Cultural Genocide
As Russian president Vladimir Putin pursues his bloody campaign to re-subjugate Ukraine, we measure success in territory gained or lost. But for Putin, seizing land is an enabler as he pursues deeper goals—not least among them the annihilation of Ukrainian culture. …read more Source:: Hoover...
Russia Crushes Dissent As Putin’s System Ramps Up Repression
Already shrinking before the Ukraine war, the space for dissent and freedom of expression has all but vanished in Russia. The latest sign came on Friday with the wrongful conviction of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich of spying following a hurried closed-door trial that the US government has condemned as a sham. …read more...
Politics Versus Policy At The NATO Summit In Washington Last Week
Biden got the political win by demonstrating his leadership of the free world; Zelenskyy got the policy win of “irreversible” into the communique about Ukraine’s path to NATO membership. …read more Source:: Hoover...
High-Tech American Weapons Work Against Russia—Until They Don’t
Moscow is learning how to defeat Western precision munitions in Ukraine. Those lessons will be shared to Beijing. …read more Source:: Hoover...